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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky's literary masterwork Crime and Punishment for the screen with this feature made at the height of the Expressionist movement in German cinema. The story concerns a poor, imperious former law student who believes that he is a special kind of person exempt from any moral law. He murders a woman and her sister and is sent to prison for years.
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
3) Tuvalu
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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None
Description
Anton, a young dreamer whose blind father runs the bathhouse, has convinced his father that the bathhouse is filled with customers. His brother is a ruthless industrialist who wants to destroy the building and erect a futuristic city in its place. But that struggle is soon replaced by the movie's dominant storyline, Anton's falling in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl. Aside from a few random words, the film is without dialogue, a silent film...
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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with Andre.
6) Run Lola run
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1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lola receives a frantic phone call from her boyfriend Manni, who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola deosn't replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.
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2 videodiscs (279 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. (12 pages : color illustration ; 15 cm)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Valor, courage, and betrayal come to the fore in this remarkable epic that shows the everyday realities of wartime life from a deeply personal perspective. Billed as a German "Band of Brothers," GENERATION WAR vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Winner of seven **German Television Academy Awards**, including Best Director and Best Leading Actor. Winner...
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The stationmaster Bolwieser is sexually obsessed with his beautiful wife. Soon bored with her husband she engages in adulterous affairs, causing him to become sullen and depressed leading to disasterous consequences.
9) Nosferatu
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : silent, black and white (color tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The original "Dracula" film, based on the story by Bram Stoker. For copyright reasons, the names of the characters were changed (Orlok for Dracula, for example) but otherwise the story remains the same -- Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats and with sinister plans for the young couple who are to be his first victims.
10) North face
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on a true story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and...
11) Whity
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's sole western is set in the late 1800s in the perverse household of Ben Nicholson, his blonde trophy wife Katherine, and two sons, the sadistic Frank and brain-damaged Davy. Whity's mother Marpessa is the family cook, singing freedom songs in the kitchen, but Whity adores the family and puts up with enslavement to please them--until he falls in love with saloon-singer Hanna. Filmed in Spain on the same sets where Sergio Leone staged Clint...
12) The blue angel
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106, 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer. Presents two versions of the film: The original German and original English versions.
13) The dark valley
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 12
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When mysterious outsider, Greider, rides into town for the winter, everyone wants him gone. Refusing to leave, Greider sparks into motion a series of deadly events in this thrilling revenge western.
14) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....
15) Stalingrad
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1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The battle of Stalingrad lasted from September 1942 to January 1943, and was one of the greatest bloodbaths in military history: a million people dead from mutual slaughter, starvation, and the bitter winter cold. The awesome battle that thwarted Hitler's Eastern Front conquests is told from the viewpoint of four German soldiers sent from the North Africa campaign to join the Sixth Army to take the city, a vital crossroads and defense industry center....
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1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A search for a killer spanning three continents and three centuries. Based on the international bestselling novel by Henning Mankell, The man form Beijing is a two-part thriller that begins with the stunning murder of 19 people. The only clue left behind is a red ribbon. When Judge Brigitta Roslin discovers that almost all the victims were related to her, she starts an investigation of her own. Her search for the killer leads her to China, where she...
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the "most powerful piece of propaganda ever produced". Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.
19) Europa Europa
Series
Criterion collection volume 985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations : 18 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
"As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back...
20) Das Boot
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (209 min.) : sound, color, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
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