Strongman Ferdinand

d. Alexander Kluge
c. West Germany
y. 1976

description:
"Ferdinand Rieche (Heinz Schubert) was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men like a private army expecting an invasion. After his excesses prove too much for his bosses, he is fired, and Ferdinand takes his strong opinions back into public life." (AMG)

IMDB... 7.1 (34)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0

size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes

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Impressions de la haute Mongolie

d. Salvador Dali
c. West Germany
y. 1976

description:
"An elaborate yarn about a search for giant hallucinogenic mushrooms." (IMDB comment)

IMDB... 6.4 (23)
_AMG... n/a

size: 500MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?

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I'm an Elephant, Madame

d. Peter Zadek
c. West Germany
y. 1969

description:
"Rull (Wolfgang Schneider) is in his last year at a classical German state school. Believing all authority figures are repugnant, he engages in a series of bizarre behaviors. He literally acts like a bull in a china shop, alienates his friends, loses his girlfriend and infuriates his teachers. When he paints a swastika on a wall of the Parliament building, he really gets in trouble. This film is based on the novel The Unadvised by Thomas Valentin. In the novel, the principle character was a hero, but he turns into an alienating buffoon in the celluloid version. Neither authority figures nor the counterculture is spared in this satire. Music is provided by Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground."

IMDB... 7.7 (26)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0

size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

d. Jonas Mekas
c. UK & West Germany
y. 1972

description:
"This film, and its companion piece Going Home are documentaries in the form of home movies. It records the return visit of brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas to their homeland of Lithuania. They apparently left the country near the end of World War II, and suffered various hardships on their way to America. Until the time of this film (1972), they had never been back to Lithuania." (AMG)

IMDB... 7.9 (64)
_AMG... 4.5 / 5.0

size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes

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Heart of a Dog

d. Alberto Lattuada
c. Italy / West Germany
y. 1976

description:
From the Bulgakov novel.

IMDB... 4.6 (18)
_AMG... n/a

size: 1060MB
qlty: ?
subs: no (Russian)

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Metamorphosis

d. Jan Nemec
c. West Germany
y. 1975

description:
Adapted from Kafka.

IMDB... 5.5 (23)
_AMG... n/a

size: 430MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?

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Klassenverhaltnisse

d. Daniele Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub
c. West Germany
y. 1984

description:
"Financed in Germany and filmed in New York, Class Relations is adapted from Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika. Christian Heinisch plays a bourgeois German forced to leave his homeland after a scandal. He accepts his uncle's invitation to move to America, where he takes a succession of "Joe Jobs." Heinisch tries, but he is unable to shake off his old-world customs. Worse, the class structure in Europe never prepared him to have to actually use his hands to make a living. Rather than tack on an ending of their own, writer/directors Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub conclude Class Relations in the same manner that Kafka left Amerika behind when he died--with the hero's ultimate fate still in limbo." (AMG)

IMDB... 6.8 (75)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0

size: 1560MB
qlty: DTV
subs: yes

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Bremen Freedom

d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
c. West Germany
y. 1972

description:
"A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends." (IMDB)

IMDB... 8.9 (72)*
_AMG... n/a

size: 1370MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?

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* yes, breaking my own rule again...

As You See

d. Harun Farocki
c. West Germany
y. 1986

description:
"My film As You See is an action-filled feature film. It reflects upon girls in porn magazines to whom names are ascribed and about the nameless dead in mass graves, upon machines that are so ugly that coverings have to be used to protect the workers' eyes, upon engines that are too beautiful to be hidden under the hoods of cars, upon labor techniques that either cling to the notion of the hand and the brain working together or want to do away with it." (Harun Farocki)

IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a

size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?

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