SCREENINGS IN MARCH
60 GERMAN FILMABENDE 1960-2020
In 2020, Goethe-Institut Chennai celebrates its 60th Anniversary and to commemorate this occasion, Helmut Schippert, Director of Goethe-Institut Chennai has curated a series of 60 German films from 1960 - 2020 that have particularly appealed to him and that have an important relevance to the history of German films. These 60 films will be featured as
60 GERMAN FILMABENDE 1960-2020 for Chennai film buffs.
Films by renowned directors such as Frank Beyer, Konrad Wolf, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and many others will be featured and the screenings are scheduled almost every Friday and on certain Saturdays throughout the year in 2020.
6.3.2020 |
7.00 pm |
Goethe-Institut Auditorium
The Legend of Paul and Paula
Dir.:
Heiner Carow | 1972 | 106 min.
Paula, a single mother, falls in love with the political functionary Paul. Paul isn’t happy with his private life either. He knows his wife is cheating on him. Paula wants her new happiness by any means. At first, Paul is fearful and hesitant, until he realises that he may have found the love of his life. THE LEGEND OF PAUL AND PAULA is an enchanting plea for the right to individual happiness, even in a socialist state. The film was a huge success in the then German Democratic Republic Hermann and Maria Braun′s marriage lasts only one day and one night before Hermann is called to the front. After the war he is reported missing. Yet Maria believes he is still alive. Maria becomes the mistress of a GI whom she accidentally kills when Hermann returns unexpectedly.
Hermann answers for the killing and goes to jail in her stead. While he is away she makes a successful career in the economic boom of postwar Germany. At the height of her success, Maria, Hermann, their house and worldly goods are destroyed in an explosion.
7.3.2020 |
7.00 pm |
Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Yella
Dir.:
Christian Petzold | 2007 | 88 min.
Yella leaves. She longs for the future. She wants to leave the life she has led up until now behind her. On her travels she meets a man working in the venture capital world. Yella proves herself ashis assistant. But time and again fragments of her past force their way into her new life.
13.3.2020 |7.00 pm | Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Head-On
Dir.:
Fatih Akin | 2004 | 121 min.
The tale of two lost souls, torn between desperation and an intense longing for hope, in which twenty year-old Sibel, desperate to escape the suffocating traditional discipline of her family,convinces the disillusioned alcoholic Cahit to marry her.
14.3.2020 |
7.00 pm |
Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Bagdad Café
Dir.:
Percy Adlon | 1987 | 108 min.
After a domestic dispute, Bavarian businesswoman Jasmin Münchgstettner is stranded alone in the Mojave Desert. She enters the Bagdad Café, a shabby motel with a café and gas station. Brenda, an endless nag, rules supreme here. It’s also home to Brenda's son and his offspring, her provocative daughter Phyllis, a mysterious tattoo artist and a set-painter from Hollywood, Rudi Cox. Rudi paints an oil portrait of Jasmin in progressive levels of undress.
Jasmine gradually wins Brenda’s trust and refurbishes the business. Using tricks from an old magic kit, the two women eventually become an insider’s tip for those in the area. A gentle film about the friendship between two women from completely different worlds.
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