Cine Central Calcutta in collaboration with the
Goethe-Institut Kolkata will show two German films at Nandan in Kolkata on 17th and 18th of March, 2021.
17th March, 5 pm:
I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE
Dir: Ilker Çatak
2019, colour, 122 min
As rational as Marion appears, both as a pilot and in her private life, she soon stops functioning properly when she meets Baran, a gigolo, on the Turkish coast and gets involved in a fictitious marriage to enable him to obtain German citizenship. What begins as a kind of trade-off soon turns into an emotional story of love and identity at the interface between two cultures.
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18th March, 5 pm:
THE CAPTAIN
Dir: Robert Schwentke
2017, b/w, 119 min
While escaping from the patrols through the bleak Ems estuary, 19-year-old private Willi Herold discovers the abandoned uniform of a highly decorated Luftwaffe captain. Now masquerading as "Captain Herold", Willi gathers soldiers around him to complete an imaginary assignment allegedly given by Hitler himself – and reveals an unexpectedly dark side to his character...
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