Bayerischer Rundfunk
Publisher
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
East Berlin, 1984. Capt. Gerd Wiesler, Stasi officer and surveillance specialist has a simple assignment: keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. During...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
Vendetta : A high profile attorney and a prominent tax adviser are murdered within days of each other, and Brunetti's investigation leads to Senora Ceroni, and a human-trafficking syndicate within the cream of Venetian society.
The anonymous Venetian : The investigation of a murdered bank executive, whose body is found clad in women's attire, leads Brunetti to the subculture of transvestites and male prostitutes, among whom are many characters that...
3) Wadjda
Language
Arabic
Description
Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring all at once, this groundbreaking...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fatal remedies: In nighttime Venice, a woman shatters the window of a travel agency. When the police arrive, she puts up no resistance. The woman is Paola Brunetti, Inspector Brunetti's wife. She is convinced that the agency caters to paedophiles seeking sex in poor Asian and African countries.
A noble radiance: Brunetti's search for justice puts him against a powerful Venetian family. The man whose skeleton is found in a field outside of Venice...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The Ritchie Boys tells the story of a group of young Jewish men who fled Nazi Germany only to return to Europe as United States soldiers who knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. At the U.S. Army base of Camp Ritchie, in the mountains of Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Though not always courageous, they were determined, bright, inventive, fought their own kind of war and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks on an affair.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the investigation.--Container
Looks are deceiving : The murder of a trucking...
9) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from the factory?--Container
Suffer the little children :...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Art of the Renaissance: Exemplary masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting, together with the great artistic personalities of the era illustrate the achievements and accomplishments of the Renaissance; Baroque art The vast complex of St. Peter's provided a magnificent setting for papal pomp and pageantry; Rococo art: A new style emerged which was to characterize the epoch. The ornamental form of the rocaille became the leitmotiv of the...
12) Bagdad Cafe
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
An off-beat comedy about a greasy spoon and a rusty gas pump in the Mojave desert, and mismatched characters who find paradise off the beaten track.
13) Baal
Series
Criterion collection volume 914
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Contains the following two programs that were filmed on location throughout Europe: The art of the 19th century (spans from Goya to the light-flooded pictures of the Impressionists with selected masterpieces of Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Historicism and Impressionism); and The art of the 20th century (follows the break with tradition, the revolt against the traditional concept of art and the search for new horizons, paths and forms).
17) Parsifal
Publisher
Corinth Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Deutsch
Description
An interpretation of Wagner's last opera of German and Christian mythology.
Publisher
C Major Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
None
Description
Recently appointed the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons is one of the most interesting upcoming conductors. A dynamic young Latvian conductor, he leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in a high-profile program featuring Ives, Adams, Stravinsky and Dvorak.
19) Citizenfour
Publisher
RADiUS TWC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
20) Die Walküre
Publisher
Manufactured and marketed by Universal Classics Group
Pub. Date
[2005], ©1980
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the face of the battle, Siegmund, fathered by Wotan, discovers that Sieglinde is his twin sister. Yet, they join as man and wife. Wotan knows he must kill Siegmund for the violation of the laws of matrimony. But unable to bear the agony of the deed, he sends the Valkyrie Brunnhilde, in his place. Brunnhilde takes mercy on the two lovers. In anguish, Wotan causes Siegmund's death by shattering his sword in battle. Brunnhilde is made mortal as punishment...