Films shown in the German Department
German, Swiss and Austrian films are shown each Friday afternoon during term-time at 3pm in Lecture Theatre 1 of Queen's Building. All University students are welcome. Please contact Paul Joyce of the Department of German at the University of Exeter for more details.
The films to be shown in the second semester are listed in the table below. Click on the name of the film for more details.
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Friday films in the German Department
Friday 4th February Good Bye Lenin (2003)
A runaway success both in Germany and abroad, the film tells the story of Alex, whose proudly socialist mother falls into a coma just as the Berlin Wall is coming down. Afraid that his mother may die from shock if she discovers that the GDR is no more, Alex lovingly dupes his mother into believing that nothing has changed. But how long can he keep up the charade?
Friday 11th February Tattoo (2002)
Dark thriller influenced by Se7en. Young police graduate Marc is coerced by cynical detective Minks into joining him in the hunt for a serial killer with a fetish for human skin - or else he'll finish Marc's police career on drugs possession charges. During his investigation, Marc comes across Maya, the beautiful, if very cool, girlfriend of one of the victims. And it emerges that what Minks wants from the younger detective is access to a seedy underworld that swallowed up his daughter Marie two years ago...
Friday 18th February Das Wunder von Bern (2003)
Summer, 1954. The Soviet Union is sending its prisoners of war home. Among them is the father of a quiet, football-loving 11-year-old, Matthias, who lives with his mother, sister and brother in a West-German mining town. The boy has long found a surrogate father in the local football player Helmut Rahn, who has "adopted" Matthias as his mascot. An emotional and touching family drama set against the exhilarating, authentic background of West Germany's miraculous World Cup victory in 1954.
Friday 25th February Bella Martha (2001)
Romance, comedy and food in equal measures: Chef Martha Klein is the undisputed supreme ruler of her kitchen staff and woe betide any customer who dares criticise her cooking! Her life is firmly centred round her culinary work and takes on an obsessive edge thanks to her stubborn single-mindedness. But all that changes when her sister dies in a car accident, leaving behind her 8-year-old daughter, Lina. Worse still, Martha also starts to fall in love...
Friday 4th March Das Boot - Part 1 (1981)
A detailed look into the claustrophobic and terrifying world of a German U-boat crew hunting ships from undersea. Gritty, realistic, and peppered with black humour, Wolfgang Peterson's internationally acclaimed film examines how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. First half only this week, as the film is 210 minutes long!
Friday 11th March Das Boot - Part 2 (1981)
The final half of the film.
Friday 18th March Nichts bereuen (2000)
Coming-of-age story starring Daniel Brühl of Good Bye Lenin fame. Daniel is 19-years-old and finally has his high school days behind him. After a wonderful summer vacation, he is back in town and ready for life to start happening. But can he win the affections of his beloved Luca (Jessica Schwarz)?
Friday 29th April Lola rennt (1998)
This highly successful German thriller follows the events between a woman, Lola, and her boyfriend, Mani, who she desperately tries to save from death by helping him obtain a huge amount of money he carelessly lost. It takes you on three different journeys with Lola, all controlled by fate, showing you what would happen in each, and all the "what if's" that provide the foundations for each outcome.
Friday 6th May Die innere Sicherheit (2000)
For 15 years, a German terrorist couple have led an underground existence among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. But they have broken a taboo: they have conceived a daughter. They are soon on the run again, but this time the daughter has fallen in love - a love that threatens to destroy the family.
Friday 13th May Solino (2002)
An examination of the life of Italian immigrants in Germany from the highly successful director Fatih Akin (Im Juli, Gegen die Wand). In the sixties, Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first pizza restaurant in town. All is well until the brothers fall in love with the same woman...
Friday 20th May Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (1997)
Wry Berlin comedy from the director of Good Bye Lenin. Jan Nebel is fired from his job at a slaughterhouse after he is accused of beating up two policemen at a street riot. Jan moves to his late father's apartment, sharing it with former co-worker and Buddy Holly impersonator Buddy (Ricky Tomlinson - dubbed into German!) and girlfriend Vera.
Friday 27th May Downfall - Der Untergang (2004)
Claustrophobic, tense and riveting, Downfall traps us in Hitler's bunker during the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies advance on Berlin and the Führer's empire crumbles, Bruno Ganz gives the dictator a human face as he struggles with the onset of Parkinson's disease and prepares to take his own life. Controversial in its native Germany, Hirschbiegel's accurate film is no sensational shockfest, but a living, breathing historical recreation of Hitler's downfall.
The films that were shown in the first semester are listed in the table below. Click on the name of the film for more details.
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