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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die Nibelungen, Teil 1: Siegfried
director: Harald Reinl actor: Uwe Beyer / 卡琳·多尔
other title: Die Nibelungen, Teil 1: Siegfried / La Vengeance de Siegfried
Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...
Morituri (1948) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Morituri
director: Eugen York actor: Lotte Koch / Hilde Körber
other title: 不受保护的人
随着第二次世界大战接近尾声,苏联红军的推进,一群集中营囚犯被一名波兰医生帮助逃脱。他们躲在树林里,在那里遇到了其他逃犯,他们在那里呆了几个月,他们一直害怕被发现。出于对德国军队巡逻队的恐惧,即使粮食供应不足,他们也不敢离开森林。
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Schatz der Azteken
other title: Der Schatz der Azteken / Le trésor des Aztèques
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Virgin Wives (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Zum zweiten Frühstück: Heiße Liebe
other title: Zum zweiten Frühstück: Heiße Liebe / Lonely Wives
An oft-naked male reporter decides to do an expose on "sexual widows", housewives who are neglected by their busy husbands. - This cheaper sex film is disguised as a report about green widows.
Angry Harvest (1985) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bittere Ernte
other title: 愤怒的收获 / Bittere Ernte
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
Before Sundown (1956) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Vor Sonnenuntergang
director: 戈特弗里德·赖因哈特 actor: Hans Albers / Annemarie Düringer
other title: 日落之前 / Vor Sonnenuntergang
This forgotten gem once won the Golden Globe as best foreign film of the year. It is the second cinematic adaption of Gerhard Hauptmann's naturalistic drama "Vor Sonnenuntergang" (1931) not to be confused with his more important play "Vor Sonnenaufgang" (still lacking cinematic treatment). (The first adaption was Veit Harlan's "Der Herrscher" from 1937 which, unfortunately, had changed the original ending to fit the ideology of the Nazis.)
Hans Albers plays the 70 years old company owner Clausen who after a disagreement with the way Klamroth (Martin Held), his son in law, is running his companies now is called an "old man" and asked to finally "step back". However, after meeting the young girl Inken he finds a new meaning of life and decides to marry her much to the disapproval both of his family and company members who will soon try to get him into an asylum.
Hans Alber's performance is heartbreaking from the start until the end and it is clearly one of his best serious performances ever. Annemarie Düringer as Inken could be better but still does a good job especially during her first dialog sequence. Equally good is Claus Biederstaedt as the seemingly "spoiled sun" who in the end turns out to be his father's only loyal supporter.
The best thing about the film are probably Erich Schellow (the Macheath from Lotte Lenya's "Threepenny opera"-production), Wolfgang "Dr. Mabuse" Preiss and, most of all: the incomparable Martin Held. Although the original play is set in the early thirties, they fully succeed in portraying the darker side and the "efficient" economic coldness of Western Germany in the 50ies, an era which by now has become known as the German "Wirtschaftswunder" (the "miracle of economy"). Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" from 1949 covers some of the same issues. What isn't needed any longer is thrown away things, people and most of all: a disagreeable past (which is perhaps the only issue that falls surprisingly flat in this otherwise brilliant German after-war-film).
If this film is almost forgotten today, it is perhaps because the cinematography is "adequate" rather than "excellent". The original music is good and adds a lot of atmosphere. However, direction and cinematography, though brilliant sometimes, too often convey the feeling of filmed theater.
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes
director: 泰伦斯·费希 / Frank Winterstein actor: 克里斯托弗·李 / 多利·沃特斯
other title: 福尔摩斯与致命项链 / Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen.
Shalako (1968) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Shalako
director: 爱德华·迪麦特雷克 actor: 肖恩·康纳利 / 碧姬·芭铎
other title: 沙拉克 / 原野钱金
While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.
The Devil Came from Akasava (1971) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Der Teufel kam aus Akasawa
director: 赫苏斯·佛朗哥 actor: 弗莱德.威廉姆斯 / 索莱达德·米兰达
other title: 魔女宝藏 / Der Teufel kam aus Akasawa
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
Red Rings of Fear (1978) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Enigma rosso
director: Alberto Negrin actor: 法比奥·泰斯蒂 / 克里斯汀·考夫曼
other title: 迷之血红 / Enigma rosso
RED RINGS OF FEAR (ENIGMA ROSSO), 1978, 85 min. Director Alberto Negrin wraps up the SOLANGE trilogy in this giallo where more sexually precocious schoolgirls bite the dust. Fabio Testi is the police inspector on the murderer’s trail, and Christine Kaufmann is his girlfriend. Chock-full of red herrings, perverse twists, sleazy situations, outrageous dialogue and an out-of-left-field climax, punctuated by Riz Ortolani’s groovy score.
The Hooligans (1956) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die Halbstarken
director: 乔治·特雷斯勒 actor: 霍斯特·布赫霍尔茨 / 卡琳·巴尔
other title: 少年犯 / Die Halbstarken
Teenage Wolfpack is a West German juvenile delinquency film. It deals with the problems of a growing materialist middle class. It is more in the vain of movies like Rebel Without a Cause than say the exploitative Teen Age Crime Wave (although, in the US it was promoted more in the latter's category (and in another side-note, I personally like Teen Age Crime Wave)). The film also launched the stardom of Horst Buchholz, who was called the German James Dean. The film is gritty, edgy, and struck a chord with West Germany's youth. It still packs a punch.
Wunderkinder (2011) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Wunderkinder
7.1 (18 ratings) director: 马库斯·罗森穆勒 actor: 哥德昂·布克哈德 / 凯瑟琳·弗莱明
other title: 爱乐风雨情 / 爱乐时光(台)
2011 film by Marcus Rosenmüller