The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
Margarethe von Trotta's first solo feature is a story about the radicalisation of a young woman, inspired by real events.
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The Romantic Englishwoman
Pulp writer Lewis Fielding's (Michael Caine) wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), vacationing alone in Baden-Baden, meets a drug courier and gigolo named Thomas (Helmut Berger, a Visconti amanuensis who effervescently exploits his real-life decadent image).
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The Quarterly Balance
A visitor to Sodankylä in 1988, Krzysztof Zanussi's crisis analysis, broadcast on Finnish television under the title "Välitilinpäätös" (Interim Report), continues this year's programme's shadow theme of unstable relationships.
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The New Year That Never Came
”Romania apparently only produces good films”, stated film critic Peter von Bagh once when commenting on the country’s festival entries.... View Article
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The Other Way Around
The latest film by Jonás Trueba—who visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival with his father Fernando in 2016—begins in the... View Article
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The Mohican
France’s largest island with its 300 000 inhabitants, Corsica, serves as the conflicted setting in Frédéric Farrucci’s second full-length feature.... View Article
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The Magic Reindeer Saving Santa’s Sleigh
In his third adventure, the flying reindeer Niko tries to make it out of his father’s shadow. He applies for... View Article
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The Inheritance
After a lifetime of hard work, the aging widower Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) decides to sell his bakery business, but cuts his three adult children (the weak-willed Pippo, the womanising gambler Mario and the spouse of a government employee Teta) out of his will completely, leaving them with no promise of a future inheritance.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Based on a story by Heinrich Böll and his own experiences, this political drama tells the nightmare of an innocent young woman in the clutches of the police and the media.
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The Peacock’s Paradise
Italian director Laura Bispuri’s (b. 1977) third feature film takes place on the outskirts of Rome in the cold of... View Article
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