A German father follows his estranged business-obsessed daughter to Romania in order to win her back & help her to regain a passion for life.
Toni Erdmann (2016)
The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Catch this fascinating German film while it’s still in theaters. (5 stars!) Click the image to read my entire review.
Luther (2003)
German monk Martin Luther unwittingly launches the Protestant Reformation when he posts his “95 Theses” which list reforms that the church badly needs.
The Good German (2006)
In post-WW 2 Berlin a cynical American journalist searches for the woman he had once loved & encounters Germans trying to escape to the West, some ex-Nazis.
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
A gripping, thought-provoking drama about the investigation leading to the 1963-65 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of ex-Nazis. Click the image to read my entire review.
Phoenix (2014)
This film noir unfolds right after WW 2 when a disfigured survivor of Auschwitz has plastic surgery, & with a friend, who thinks her German husband betrayed her, searches for him. Not recognizing his wife now, he invites her to pretend to be his wife so he can gain the wife’s large inheritance.
Fury (2014)
During the last months of WW Two 5 tank crew members form a family as they fight their way toward Berlin. One of them is a greenhorn cruelly taught to kill.
Bonhoeffer (2003)
Documentary, Not Rated. Running time: 1 hour 33 min. Our star rating (1-5) 5 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and …
Hanged on a Twisted Cross (1996)
The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Running time: 2 hours. This two-hour documentary would be an excellent resource in accompaniment with the PBS dramatic film we reviewed in the last issue—Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace. This is a first class production with lots of archival newsreels of the Nazi era and specially filmed …
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Based on a John le Carre novel, a German intelligence agent in Hamburg battles with the CIA & his own agency to help a Russian-Chechen refugee who might actually be a Muslim terrorist.