Movies: Mdr

  • 2009
    Pope Joan

    Pope Joan (2009)

    Pope Joan

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    A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks....

    Pope Joan
  • 2024
    The Presidents’ Tailor – From Auschwitz to the White House

    The Presidents’ Tailor – From Auschwitz to the White House (2024)

    The Presidents’ Tailor – From Auschwitz to the White House

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    Martin Greenfield learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz and went on to make suits for U.S. presidents and stars. Now, at 95, America’s greatest tailor is grappling with his legacy....

    The Presidents’ Tailor – From Auschwitz to the White House
  • 1996
    Love in Hollywood

    Love in Hollywood (1996)

    Love in Hollywood

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    Various Hollywood people talk about love....

    Love in Hollywood
  • 2005
    Fateless

    Fateless (2005)

    Fateless

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    An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupant...

    Fateless
  • 2000
    The Legend of Rita

    The Legend of Rita (2000)

    The Legend of Rita

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    Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after...

    The Legend of Rita
  • 2005
    The Young Schiller

    The Young Schiller (2005)

    The Young Schiller

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    The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet with a dramatic escape. After the sensational success of his first drama "The Robbers", he deserts from the Duke's army. At the Mannheim Court and National Theatre, he initially receives a friend...

    The Young Schiller
  • 2019
    Collective

    Collective (2019)

    Collective

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    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of t...

    Collective
  • 2021
    The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

    The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

    The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

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    A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their own...

    The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
  • 2020
    Frenemies: Putin and Trump

    Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)

    Frenemies: Putin and Trump

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 2016, but over time the relationship between the two heads of state has had its ups and downs. Are the...

    Frenemies: Putin and Trump
  • 2014
    Open the Wall

    Open the Wall (2014)

    Open the Wall

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    A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards....

    Open the Wall
  • 2022
    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl

    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl (2022)

    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl

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    In Mödling, a small town near Vienna, girls between the ages of 18 and 20 have been disappearing without a trace at ever shorter intervals for the past 13 years. Residents are worried and accuse the police of incompetence. In this environment of fear...

    Jeanny - The Fifth Girl
  • 2012
    Für Elise

    Für Elise (2012)

    Für Elise

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    15-year-old Elise is longing for a happy family life, but her mother Betty is weak and egocentric. She drowns her problems in alcohol. Everything seems to turn out good when they meet Ludwig. But he does not fall in love with Betty, he loves Elise....

    Für Elise
  • 2024
    A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History

    A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History (2024)

    A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History

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    A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical founding in the 10th century to the Russian invasion in 2022....

    A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
  • 2017
    Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation

    Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation (2017)

    Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation

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    Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At the ...

    Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation
  • 2010
    The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams

    The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams (2010)

    The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams

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    Each night, like every other child in the world, Miko goes to Dreamland thanks to magic sand dispersed by the Sandman. But one night, the evil dream Habumar steals the Sand of Dreams and takes control of Dreamland. The Sandman and his faithful sheep ...

    The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams
  • 2004
    Second Hand Child

    Second Hand Child (2004)

    Second Hand Child

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    Tobias, aged 13, lives in an East German city and has learned to get by on his own. Then Max moves into the neighboring apartment, and he keeps it just like Tobias. He likes to determine how things should go by himself. Without further ado, Tobias de...

    Second Hand Child
  • 2013
    Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life

    Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life (2013)

    Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life

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    On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like few other chancellors. Even 30 years after the end ...

    Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life
  • 2024
    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film (2024)

    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

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    Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the Filmmuseum Potsdam, which is honoring him and his team with an exhibition and film series. The portr...

    Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film
  • 2019
    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale

    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale (2019)

    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale

    6.72019HD

    September 1989 in the GDR. With the change of the general mood in the country, the life of 12-year-old FRITZI changes as well. Her best friend Sophie has fled with her mother through Hungary to West Germany and the only thing Fritzi has left is Sophi...

    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale
  • 2016
    Shed My Skin

    Shed My Skin (2016)

    Shed My Skin

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    The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious....

    Shed My Skin