Martina Gedeck
2) The Wall
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Deutsch
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In a tour-de-force performance, Martina Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall inexplicably surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing.
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In the tradition of Big Night and Chocolat comes this "delicious romantic comedy!"* that won over 10 international film awards and captured the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But, Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her...
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Paramount Pictures
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Deutsch
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Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina's spirits...
Publisher
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion
Pub. Date
c2007
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Deutsch
Description
East Berlin, 1984. Capt. Gerd Wiesler, Stasi officer and surveillance specialist has a simple assignment: keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. During...
7) The wall
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
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A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
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Universal Pictures
Language
English
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Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
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Als Natascha Wodin 1992 nach Berlin kommt, sucht sie jemanden, der ihr beim Putzen hilft. Sie stellt Nastja ein, die wie Wodins Eltern aus der Ukraine stammt. Die studierte Tiefbauingenieurin konnte nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion im wirtschaftlichen Chaos ihrer Heimat nicht mehr überleben. Also stieg sie in einen Zug nach Berlin. Doch kaum ist ihr Visum dort abgelaufen, schlittert sie in das Leben einer Illegalen.
Für Natascha Wodin ist...
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Natascha Wodin erzählt in fünf Geschichten meisterhaft und mit großer Dringlichkeit vom Gefühl des Fremdseins im eigenen Leben und schenkt ihren Figuren eine Heimat in der Literatur.
In der Titelgeschichte zieht die Erzählerin eine Spur von Mariupol am Asowschen Meer, an dem ihre Mutter aufwuchs, bis zur Regnitz in Franken, dem Fluss, in dem diese sich das Leben nahm. Zu einer anderen Zeit in ihrem Leben verliebt sie sich in einen Fremden,...
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Nach dem großen Erfolg von Sie kam aus Mariupol, dem Buch über die Mutter, hat sich Natascha Wodin auf die literarische Suche nach ihrem Vater begeben. Sein Leben, das noch in der russischen Zarenzeit begonnen hat und fast das gesamte 20. Jahrhundert überspannt, ist für die Tochter immer ein Geheimnis geblieben. Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel, hinter all dem Schweigen, sucht sie den Schlüssel zum Verstehen. Und sie erzählt, wie nebenbei, die Geschichte...
12) The Door
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English
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Emerence, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerence to disclose details of her traumatising past, which will bond the two women forever.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force, Horst...
