Claudia Geisler-Bading

In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

Tarihin en büyük hazine avının gerçek hikayesinden uyarlanan The Monuments Men tuhaf bir 2. Dünya Savaşı müfrezesini anlatıyor. Bu müfrezedekiler FDR tarafından sanat eserlerini Nazi hırsızlarından kurtarmak ve sahiplerine ulaştırmak için Almanya’ya gitmekle görevlendiriliyorlar. Ancak bu imkansız bir görevdir: düşman hattının arkasında kalan sanat eserleri ve her şeyi yok etme emir almış Alman ordusuyla, bu adamlar – hiç askeri deneyimi olmayan yedi müze müdürü, koleksiyon yöneticisi ve sanat tarihçisi- nasıl başarılı olabilir ki? Ancak Monuments Men olarak bilinen bu adamlar kendilerini 1000 yıllık kültürün yok olmasını önlemek için zamana karşı yarışırken, insanoğlunun en büyük başarılarını korumak için hayatlarını da riske atacaklardır..

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.

851 yılında Papalık a yükselen İngiliz Joan’ın hayatını konu alan Pope Joan Attan düşerek gizli sevgilisinden olan çocuğunu doğurmak zorunda kalır, bu doğumdan sonra kadın olduğu anlaşılan Joan nın taşlanarak öldürüldüğüne inanılır. Papa Joan’nın trajik hikayesi anlatan film Vatikan’ın tepkisine rağmen büyük ilgi çekiyor...

Nelly Lenz, toplama kampından kurtulmayı başarmış ama işkenceden yüzü tanınmayacak hale gelmiş bir şarkıcıdır. Zorunlu olarak geçirdiği estetik ameliyat sonrasında, kendisinin bir benzerine dönüşür. Görmek için can attığı tek kişi ise kocası Johnny’dir. Karşılaştıklarında Johnny onu tanımayıp zihnini iyice bulandırır. Acaba kocası ona hâlâ âşık mıdır, yoksa sadece parasının peşinde midir?

Sarah 13 yaşındadır. En iyi arkadaşı Charly ile birlikte oldukları adamların sayısını unutmuştur. Sarah 18 yaşındaki Lukas ile bir sohbet odasında tanışmıştır. Hayatında ilk defa bir ilişki içinde olmak ister. Ama Lukas da acaba böyle mi düşünüyordur? Yoksa sadece Sarah’ı kullanıyor mudur? Charly ise bu arada doğmamış çocuğu için baba bulmaya çalışmaktadır. Sarah’nın annesi de kızının artık bir ergen olmadığı gerçeğiyle baş etmeye çalışmaktadır.

1980’lerin Doğu Almanya’sında, Barbara Doğu tarafından çıkmak için vizeye başvurur. Başvuruyu yapmasıyla birlikte Berlin’de doktor olarak çalıştığı hastaneden kırsal alana sürülür. Yeni iş arkadaşlarının da muhbir olmasına dair korkusuyla Barbara yeni sürüldüğü bölgede oldukça mutsuz bir hayat yaşamakta ama bir yandan göze batmamaya çalışmaktadır. Kaçma planları hala gündemde de olsa çocuk doktoru Andre’nin hayatına girmesiyle her şey yeni bir perspektifte ışık kazanacaktır. 2012 Berlin Film Festivali’nde En İyi Yönetmen dalında Gümüş Ayı kazanan Christian Petzold’ün yönettiği film, 31. İstanbul Film Festivali’nde Dünya Festivallerinden bölümünde seyirciyle buluşmuştu.

Çağdaş bir Huckleberry Finn hikayesi olarak nitelenen bu yol filmi, zengin ve kopuk bir ailede büyüyen 14 yaşındaki Maik ile sınıfa yeni gelen göçmen Tschick’in sıra dışı dostluğunu anlatıyor. Annesi rehabilitasyon merkezine yatırılmış ve babası da iş gezisinde olan Maik yaz tatilini tek başına geçirecektir. Ancak Tschick kapısında çalıntı bir arabayla belirince plansız programsız bir yolculuğa çıkarlar. Maik için hem kendini hem de hayatı keşfedeceği bir macera olacaktır bu.

A series of poems.

Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital by her husband, Pierre. After spotting Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but no one believes her.

Nazilere mensup annesiyle babası 1945 yılında Müttefikler tarafından tutuklanınca ortada kalan genç Lore, dört kardeşini önüne katıp 900 kilometre ötede, Hamburg'daki büyükannelerine doğru yola koyulur. Savaşın bitişiyle hüküm süren kargaşa, yokluk ve acının ortasında, Thomas adında gizemli bir Yahudi mülteciyle karşılaşması Lore'un dünyasını alt üst eder. Lore, tehlikeli yolculuklarında hayatta kalabilmek için düşman bildiği, hep nefret etmesi gerektiği öğretilen birine güvenmek zorunda kalacaktır.

60'lı yıllarda Avrupa'yı saran devrimci dünya görüşünün bir grup gencin hayatını nasıl etkilediğini ortaya koyuyor... 60'lı yılların başında sol eğilimli üniversite öğrencileri, yayınclık işinde uzmanlaşmaya başlarlar. Devrimci fikirlerini hayata geçirebilmek ve ortamı kızıştırmak için Batı Berlin'e yerleşmeye karar verirler. Batı Almanya'nın konformist yapısına itiraz eden gençlerin hikayesi...

Afganistan’da savaşırken ordudan ihraç edilen Thomas, memleketi Jerichow’a döner. Burada bir büfe zincirinin sahibi Ali’yle tanışır. Ali onu şoförü olarak işe alır. Thomas ve Ali’nin eşi Laura arasında bir çekim olunca, ortaya klasik bir aşk üçgeni çıkar.

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Astrid is in her late forties and has her life firmly under control. She has fallen in love with Paul, and their first weekend trip together takes them to Budapest for a few romantic days, just the two of them. But in the Hungarian capital things happen differently than they'd planned: They run into Julius, Astrid's first great love, whom she'd met at an artists' party in East Germany in 1986.

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

Seven-year-old Kati is glad that despite her spastic disability she is allowed to attend a normal school. Her parents made that possible. In her first year there, she is supposed to prove that she can get along at the school and she does her utmost to keep up with her classmates. Her disability, however, is greeted with constant mockery and disrespect. Even her teachers have a hard time treating her equally. When Kati fails math, she has to attend a special school. Katie is devastated but her friends help her to cope with the new situation.

An insecure drama student is given the lead role in a play by her director, but the role she is supposed to play is at odds with her real personality. The fusion of her stage persona and her real life persona becomes a psychological tour de force for the young woman, changing her private life.

The quiet place in the gallery of the church in Iffeldorf, where Lena Fauch occasionally found refuge and listened to the organist practise, is a place she will not see again for a long time. She accepts the offer from Detective Superintendent Kuda and becomes a police chaplain in Munich. Her first assignment confronts her with the criminal investigator Gregor Hoffmann. Hoffmann, who was assaulted during an arrest, is supposed to work through his misconduct with Lena Fauch. Hoffmann is unapproachable and rude. The encounters with him are provocative and disturbing. Chief Inspector Christian Fenn behaves quite differently. He is a self-confessed Christian and is delighted to have Lena as support in what he calls the "fight against Sodom and Gomorrah". Fenn is firmly convinced that he is one of the good guys.

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.

Judith moved to Berlin three weeks ago and is just starting her career. A new city, a new apartment, her first job - that was her life plan with her boyfriend Christian. But he has changed his mind and won't be joining her. So Judith unexpectedly finds herself on her own. As a psychotherapist for children and adolescents, she is highly motivated to help her young patients, but at the same time has to deal with her new work colleagues, the unfamiliar city and her loneliness. Then she meets marine biologist Martin, who is searching for a humpback whale that has lost its way in the Baltic Sea.

Claire returns to her parental home as an adult. She has been in a wheelchair since childhood, having lost a foot in an accident at the age of six. She blamed her sister Rita for the accident, who has hated her ever since. When Rita learns that Claire has only come back to beg their mother for money for an operation, her anger escalates into pure hatred for her sister.

Germany, two days before the general election. In the popular talk show "Sechs gegen Neunzig", the shrewd presenter Frederic Neunzig offers the party candidates the opportunity to present their election platforms one last time. Harald Müllbeier, head of the temporary employment agency "Time for Talents", also sits on the panel as the voice of the people. While everyone is still fighting for their positions in the heated discussion, a woman storms into the studio and takes politicians and the company boss hostage.

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.”

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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.

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.

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German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.

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The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.

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