Berlin • 46 classic movies in OV/OmU/OmeU versions, shown in 18 cinemas
From Hitchcock thrillers to Kurosawa epics, from New Wave darlings to Hollywood legends, classic screenings
offer a chance to experience cinema history on the big screen where it belongs. It's more than nostalgia -
it's discovering why these films continue to captivate audiences decades after their first premiere.
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| Rick's Cafe in Casablanca is a meeting place for many people from Europe who want to flee to America during World War II. Rick Blaine, the owner of the cafe, reunites with Ilsa here, with whom he had an affair in Paris. But a revival of their old feelings is doomed to fail, as Ilsa's husband Victor must be saved from the Nazis. |
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| Two angels watch over Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are silent observers, accompanying people through the city's rooftops and streets. They hear their thoughts and feelings, without being able to feel them themselves. Ever since Damiel fell in love with the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), he struggles with his fate. He would love to become human. To do this, he would have to become mortal, with all the consequences. A former angel (Peter Falk) advises him to take the plunge into life. |
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| When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, sensitive would-be poet Elling is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and woman-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own. Initially, the simple act of going around the corner for groceries is a challenge. Through a friendship born of desperate dependence, the skittish Elling and the boisterous, would-be ladies' man Kjell Bjarne discover that not only can they survive on the outside--they can thrive. But as their courage grows, they find oddball ways to cope with society and strike up friendships in the unlikeliest places. |
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| Riots break out in the bleak social housing estates of the Paris suburbs after a 16-year-old Arab boy was nearly beaten to death by the police. After a night full of violence between adolescents and the police, a state of emergency prevails. Driven by hatred against the system, the friends Hubert, Said, and Vinz stand at the forefront, on a day that will change their lives. |
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| NORTH Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life. |
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| Karin's world is the suburbs. It sells low-cost cosmetics in the large area of Leverkusen. She lives in simple hotels - during the week, the company pays, on weekends she gets special conditions, because you have known them for years. She does not have a home. Karin works hard because she needs every penny to reach her goal: Paris. There she wants to live some day. |
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| People in New York: Uli, a nurse from the Swabian Jura, to whose image of America Karl May also contributed, practices her naive innocence as a survival strategy. As the only white person, she lives in Harlem. She works in the psychiatric emergency department of a hospital. Claudia from Essen recounts her rape and her unbroken determination to assert herself. Anna earned the money for her training as a psychotherapist by working as a go-go girl. In two Catholic schools she helps children with their conflicts. |
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