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1) Mephisto
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An actor of the Art Theatre Company of Hamburg, who subordinates everything to his success, befriends a principal figure in the Nazi power machinery and is drawn into the poisonous circle of evil from which he can no longer escape.
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Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on...
4) The reader
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"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight....
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One of the highlight opera productions of 2013 Salzburg Festival, the new Stefan Herheim production of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is conducted by Daniele Gatti. Michael Volle, one of the foremost German baritones, performs as Hans Sachs and highly acclaimed Italian tenor Roberto Saccà performs as Walther von Stolzing.
6) Amen
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A German SS Lieutenant covertly collaborates with a young Italian priest in hopes of changing the Vatican's policies toward Germany during WWII, which both believe are exacerbating the Jewish Holocaust.
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Discusses how Marlowe's Doctor Faustus has reached us in two strikingly different versions, the relation between which is one of the outstanding critical problems of Elizabethan drama. By printing the text of 1604 and 1616, on opposite pages, W.W. Greg shows how they compare in detail, and in 150 pages of introduction endeavors to unravel their history. He argues that the earlier version was reconstructed from memory to serve as a prompt book for...
12) Bent
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This play dramatizes the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Singing, 2 acts, 11 scenes, 11 men, 4 interiors, 3 exteriors.
13) Faust
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Enduring legend of the old philosopher who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
15) The Stranger
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The Stranger is a thriller about a government agent tracking a Nazi war criminal to a small New England town where he lived under a false identity. This clever cat-and-mouse tale is told with simple narrative clarity, establishing Orson Welles' ability to make an ordinary assignment movie extraordinary.
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"As much poem as it is play, Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the natural world of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. In one aspect Faust records the journey of the feminine from its roots in the physical to the realm of Pure...
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The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine, Sophie Scholl, the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. The last six days of Sophie Scholl's life is dramatized, from arrest to interrogation, trial, and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate...
18) M
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When a serial killer is stalking the children of Berlin, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
19) Lola rennt
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In this high-stakes thriller set in Berlin, Lola has a mere 20 minutes to replace 100,000 Deutsch Marks lost during a botched money delivery for her boyfriend Manni, who faces dire consequences from his mobster boss. Fueled by urgency, Lola attempts to secure the funds by seeking help from her estranged father, a bank manager, but a series of dramatic events unfolds, culminating in a tense supermarket robbery with Manni. The clock ticks relentlessly...
20) The great escape
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A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
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