Isolde Barth

Fassbinder'in İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası kadınlarını işlediği trilojinin ilk filmi (diğerleri Veronika Voss ve Lola). Bu filmle Fassbinder'in ünü Almanya'da ve diğer ülkelerde daha da pekişti. Açılış sahnesinde, Müttefiklerin bombalarıyla yıkılan bir Alman kentinde, Maria ve asker nişanlısı Hermann Braun evlenmektedirler. Yeni evli asker hemen Rus cephesine gönderilir. Maria geride annesi ve kız kardeşiyle yoksulluğun içinde kalır. Kocasından haber beklemekte, her gün ondan gelebilecek haberleri öğrenmek için tren istasyonuna gitmektedir. Bir gün kocasının öldüğü haberini alır ve Amerikan askerlerine hizmet eden bir barda garson olarak çalışmaya başlar. Orada iri yarı siyah asker Bill'le tanışır ve çok az konuşabilmelerine karşın sevgili olurlar. Tam da kocasını unutmak üzereyken, aç ve hadım edilmiş Hermann çıkagelir.

1923 yılının Almanya'sında geçen film, kadın - erkek ilişkilerini, geçim derdini ve Alman - Yahudi çatışmasını irdeliyor. Abel Rosenberg, abisi öldükten sonra, birlikte çalıştıkları sirki bırakmış, işsizlik ve yalnızlık nedeniyle alkolik olmuştur. Abisi henüz ölmeden önce, ayrıldığı karısı Manuela ise hala sirkte görev yapmaktadır. Bir akşam sirke gelen Abel, Manuela'yı ziyaret eder. Abisinin, ölmeden önce bıraktığı mektubu ve parayı, Manuela'ya teslim eden Abel, kalacak yeri olmadığı için, Manuela'nın yanına yerleşir. Bir Yahudi olan Abel, herhangi bir Yahudi'nin Almanya'da yaşadığı zorlukları pek tatmamıştır ve Manuela'nın parasıyla hayatını sürdürmektedir. Abel'in Almanya'ya taşındığı sıralarda, 7 kişinin esrarengiz şekilde ölmesi ve her birinin de, genç adamın çevresinden olmasını ipucu kabul eden polis, Abel Rosenberg'i gözaltına alır. Her ölümün nedeni farklıdır ve polis, kanıt olmamasına rağmen Abel'den şüphelenmektedir.

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose.

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Bir erkeğe aşık olarak cinsiyet değiştiren Erwin Weishaupt'un yaşamının son günlerinde yaşadığı kabusu anlatır.

Marie-Claire (Mika), ailesinin çikolata fabrikasını miras alır ve ünlü piyanist André Polonski ile evlenir. André’nin önceki evliliğinden oğlu Guillaume da bu yeni aileye dahildir. Genç piyanist Jeanne, geçmişine dair şüpheli bir bilgi öğrenir: Doğduğu gün aynı hastanede bir bebek karışıklığı yaşanmış olabilir. Gerçek kökenini araştırırken Polonski ile yakınlaşır ve ondan piyano dersleri almaya başlar. Ancak Jeanne, Mika’nın her gece Guillaume’a verdiği kakaoya uyku ilacı kattığını fark edince olaylar karanlık bir hâl alır.

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Aşkla dolu bir yazarın zihnindekileri görebilsek, neyle karşılaşırız? Viyana’da üç kişi arasında geçen sıradışı bir aşkın öyküsü bu. Bir kadın yazar, Malina ile Ivan isimli iki adam. Yazar, yeni tanıştığı Ivan’ın büyüsüne kapılır ve üçünün dahil olduğu tutkulu bir hikaye kelimelere dökülmeye başlar.

Insensitively, the doctor teaches his patient Katja the terrible truth. The young woman has a brain tumor, she still has six months to live.

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across the country. Depressed by the turmoil around him, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, philosopher and musician. Helping out at Schweitzer's jungle hospital, Indy finds his faith in humanity restored and his outlook on life forever changed in this beautiful and moving film.

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

Linda is a successful art director, but not only her career but also her bad experiences with men have left her lonely. Linda's gay colleague Donald is her best "friend," but at the moment he needs help himself. He is in love with the agency boss Peter König but Peter doesn't dare openly admit to this relationship.

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?

At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In the subsequent trial before a jury, contradictory statements make it difficult to decide whether this was an intentional act or an accident.

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.

Three former school friends, reunited at a school reunion, decide to embark on a camping trip into the woods.

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.

An American newsman in Rome begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.

Diziye konu olan olaylarda hep tanıdık temalar hakim. Almanya’da gündelik yaşamı etkileyen ya da geçmişte etkilemiş olan her konu, dizide ele alınıyor ya da alındı: Almanya’nın birleşmesi, terör, organ ticareti, küreselleşme, ırkçılık, uyuşturucu kullanımı, çevre skandalları, çocuk istismarı, işsizlik, sanayi suçları, yaşlı bakımıyla ilgili sorunlar, ya da eş bulma hizmetleri. Gerçek yaşamdakinden farklı olarak, toplumsal ayrılıklar “Tatort”ta her zaman çözülmese de, cinayetin faili her zaman bulunuyor ve pazar akşamı herkes yatağına huzur içinde gidiyor. Edebiyatbilimci Jochen Vogel’in sözleriyle “Tatort, Alman toplumunu anlatan bir roman.”

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.

First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.

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Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

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R. I. S. – Die Sprache der Toten is a German television series broadcast by Sat.1 since 2007. The R. I. S. in the title is an acronym for Rechtsmedizinische Investigative Sonderkommission, referring to the fictional police investigation unit that is the focus of the series. The series, a crime drama, is a remake of an Italian television series entitled RIS Delitti Imperfetti. The first season ended on 10 June 2007. The second and final season with another 13 episodes began airing 15 November 2007.