German and German-language Films

The Blue Angel: stodgy film best seen as a character study and sympathetic morality tale

Josef von Sternberg, “The Blue Angel” / “Der Blaue Engel” (1930) Famous as the movie

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Ivan Engler, “Cargo” (2009) Debut full-length directorial feature for Ivan Engler, “Cargo” is a bloodless

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Oliver Hirschbiegel, “Downfall” (2004) This is an incredible and masterly fictional dramatisation of the last

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Fritz Lang, “M” (1931) During the 1920’s and early 1930’s, Germany played unfortunate host to

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Carl Theodor Dreyer, “Vampyr” (1932) Made originally as a silent movie with a voice and

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G W Pabst, “Pandora’s Box” (1929) On its cinematic release, this German movie garnered little

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Fritz Lang, “Metropolis” (1927) Picture source: www.tobatheinfilmicwaters.com The version of “Metropolis” I saw recently is

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Werner Herzog, “Fitzcarraldo” (1982) For all the off-screen controversies and shenanigans that bedevilled the making

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Werner Herzog, “Aguirre, Wrath of God” (1972) A dramatic fictional rendition of the 1560 expedition

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