Filmography
This filmography assembles films that offer various perspectives on immigration, multiculturalism, and national identity. Although the focus is on German cinema from the 1950s to the present, selected films from other European countries are included to encourage comparative readings. Please contact us about missing titles.
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40 Quadratmeter Deutschland
(Forty Square Meters of Germany)
West Germany 1986, Tevfik Baser, 76, color.
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With actors Özay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gökgöl.
The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg, where he had been working for some time. Instead of allowing his wife to experience for herself life in this German city, the husband anxiously shields her from any contact with the host culture and keeps her a prisoner in their apartment.
Links: IMDB, New York Times, Filmportal.de
Keyword(s): migration, oppression of women, imprisonment, claustrophobic spaces, first generation guest workers in Germany
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A Fond Kiss
UK/Belgium/Germany/Italy/Spain 2004, Ken Loach, 114 min., color.
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With actors Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar, Ahmad Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh.
A second generation Pakistani in Glasgow falls for the White, Irish Catholic music teacher at his sister's school. They try to make the relationship work despite a tentative arranged marriage and parental and societal pressures.
Links: IMDB
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Abschied vom falschen Paradies
(Farwell to False Paradise)
West Germany 1988, Tevfik Baser, 92 min, color.
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With actors Zühal Olcay, Brigitte Janner, Ruth Olafsdottir.
Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisoment she has never ventured outside the Turkish community and even there has no friends. Ironical in prison, among strangers she gains a never before known taste of freedom. But soon she is to be transferred to a Turkish prison and must say goodbye to the false paradise - German prison.
Summary from Kinowelt International
Links: IMDB, Film Portal, Kinowelt International
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Abschied von Gestern
(Yesterday Girl)
West Germany 1966, Alexander Kluge, 88 Min, B/W.
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With actors Hans Brammer and Ursula Dirichs.
Anita G. is a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. With no real home and no job, she gets into trouble with the law when she steals and is sent to prison. After her sentence, she has difficulty adjusting to life in a new society. Her probation officer tries to help her, but Anita fails in every job, continues to lie and steal, and becomes a wandering gypsy. She then falls in love with a civil servant and feels a sense of security with him, until she is recognized on the street one day by a woman she betrayed. The woman forces Anita to admit her guilt. Eventually her relationship to the civil servant becomes a burden to him. Anita becomes pregnant, but is cast away by her married lover. Although he likes her, he realizes that he cannot really help her. Homeless and unable to deal with it all, she voluntarily goes to prison to find a shelter to have her baby. (Summary from german-cinema.de)
Links: IMDB
Genre: Action or Adventure; Drama, Melodrama;
Theme(s): Migration and Mobility; Spatial or Temporal Spaces and Borders;
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
(Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
West Germany 1972, Werner Herzog, 100 min., Color.
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With actors Klaus Kinski.
A band of ruthless conquistadors venture up a river in sixteenth century South America in search of fortune only to find that the journey rapidly becomes more perilous. Morale and feelings of loyalty to Spain deteriorate thus power struggles ensue amongst the soldiers.
Summary written by
Ben Parish (IMDB)
Links: IMDB
Genre: Action or Adventure; Biographical; Drama, Melodrama;
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Alice in den Städten
(Alice in the Cities)
West Germany 1974, Wim Wenders, 110 Min, B/W.
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With actors Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer.
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother. (Summary written by Karl Engel {cassiel@ix.netcom.com})
http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
Links: IMDB
Genre: Drama, Melodrama; Globetrotting;
Theme(s): Migration and Mobility; Spatial or Temporal Spaces and Borders;
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Allemagne 90 neuf zéro
(Germany Year 90 Nine Zero)
France 1990, Jean-Luc Godard, 62 min, color.
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With actors Eddie Constantine and Hanns Zischler.
Germany Year Nine Zero follows an old spy's journey back to France from the east. Since the Cold War has ended the spy is unclear about who his enemies are, and he doesn't know what to do with himself. Jean-Luc Godard's film is a series of scenes that present his thoughts on European unification and the fall of Communism. The title harkens back to Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, a film made in the immediate aftermath of World War II that, like Godard's film, considered the fate of the world in changing political conditions. As his use of Rossellini's title suggests, Godard is concerned with the fate of cinema as well as the fate of the world. He is concerned that as borders are erased, and as the world comes more and more under the sway of corporate power, the cinema will become more and more homogenized and commercial.
Louis Schwartz, All Movie
Links: IMDB
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Alles auf Zucker!
Germany 2004, Dani Levy, 90min, color.
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With actors Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner.
available on DVD in Germany.
"I’m in deep shit," muses Jaeckie Zucker about the current state of his life, "but at least the view’s good." Actually, Jaeckie was born as Jakob Zuckermann in 1947, but since 1961 he wants nothing to do with the Jewish "club".
That was when his mother fled to the West with her first-born son Samuel as the Wall was built, leaving Jaeckie to fend for himself. He became a celebrity sports reporter, but has been down on his luck since the fall of the Wall. He barely makes ends meet by playing billiards and gambling. Jaeckie owes the bank a huge sum of money, which the branch manager – his son Thomas – is trying to collect, and his wife wants a divorce. His only hope is to win the 100,000 euro jackpot at the European Pool Tournament, but just before it starts his mother dies. Her will provides that her two sons will only inherit her fortune if they reconcile their differences and stay indoors during shivah, the seven-day period of mourning – just when the tournament is taking place.
For Woody Allen, Roberto Benigni or Mel Brooks it’s the most natural thing in the world, but till now in Germany almost unthinkable: an audacious, politically incorrect, self-ironical Jewish comedy. With this unorthodox family tale of two brothers separated by the Wall, politics and belief, Dani Levy has succeeded in painting a deeply human, sympathetic picture of Jewry in present-day Germany.
Source: 55. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Links: IMDB, Film Portal
Genre: Comedy;
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Alles wird gut
Germany 1998, Angelina Maccarone, 88 min, color.
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With actors Kati Stüdemann and Chantal De Freitas .
Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja's neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic lesbian feature: whimsical sexiness, mistaken identity, and general madness and mayhem.
Summary written by {juniper953@juno.com}
Links: IMDB, Film Portal
Genre: Comedy;
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