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Goethe on Demand: Genre Cinema from Germany
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- Language German w/ English subtitles
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Each month throughout 2023, the streaming series Genre Cinema from Germany presents a film from the science fiction, crime, road movie, and horror genres that can be viewed for free via Goethe On Demand.
Offering a closer look at a closer look at genre filmmaking in Germany, this series includes current titles, as well as pioneering films in their respective Genres, casting new light on an often overlooked aspect of German Cinema.
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Germany, 2020, 129 Minutes. In German with English subtitles.
Director: Christian Alvart, Screenplay: Christian Alvart, Sigi Kamml, Director of Photography: Christian Alvart, Cast: Trystan Pütter, Felix Kramer, Nora von Waldstätten, Producers: Christian Alvart, Sigi Kamml, Timm Oberwelland in Coproduction with Jonathan Saubach, Production Company:Syrreal Entertainment/Berlin in coproduction with Telepool, BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion, ZDF
In the winter of 1992, little of the blooming landscapes promised by Chancellor Helmut Kohl are to be seen in the remote region of northeast Germany where the two investigators, Bach and Stein, have been sent. Two girls have disappeared. It is rumoured that they simply left for the West, but little of what is said sounds all that credible. A short time later, two horribly mutilated bodies are found, and then it comes out that the two girls are not the first young women of the village to disappear without a trace. The dissimilar investigators dig deeper and deeper into the meshwork of lies told by the locals. Bach, who knows every trick in the book, also has to deal with his thorny past as a former piece of the GDR's executive apparatus gradually coming to light, while Stein, who is noticeably less emotionally stable than his shrewd partner, has seemingly left the apparently alien and distant city of Hamburg for a country with its own laws. Director Christian Alvart has succeeded in creating a thought-provoking and exciting genre film with a sense of history.
Offering a closer look at a closer look at genre filmmaking in Germany, this series includes current titles, as well as pioneering films in their respective Genres, casting new light on an often overlooked aspect of German Cinema.
APRIL: FREE COUNTRY (FREIES LAND)
STREAM FOR FREE IN APRIL
Germany, 2020, 129 Minutes. In German with English subtitles.
Director: Christian Alvart, Screenplay: Christian Alvart, Sigi Kamml, Director of Photography: Christian Alvart, Cast: Trystan Pütter, Felix Kramer, Nora von Waldstätten, Producers: Christian Alvart, Sigi Kamml, Timm Oberwelland in Coproduction with Jonathan Saubach, Production Company:Syrreal Entertainment/Berlin in coproduction with Telepool, BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion, ZDF
In the winter of 1992, little of the blooming landscapes promised by Chancellor Helmut Kohl are to be seen in the remote region of northeast Germany where the two investigators, Bach and Stein, have been sent. Two girls have disappeared. It is rumoured that they simply left for the West, but little of what is said sounds all that credible. A short time later, two horribly mutilated bodies are found, and then it comes out that the two girls are not the first young women of the village to disappear without a trace. The dissimilar investigators dig deeper and deeper into the meshwork of lies told by the locals. Bach, who knows every trick in the book, also has to deal with his thorny past as a former piece of the GDR's executive apparatus gradually coming to light, while Stein, who is noticeably less emotionally stable than his shrewd partner, has seemingly left the apparently alien and distant city of Hamburg for a country with its own laws. Director Christian Alvart has succeeded in creating a thought-provoking and exciting genre film with a sense of history.