2011 film by Ben Verbong

It is summer and five overly-seasoned college students have been given the task of writing a group paper on Franz Kafka’s “The Country Doctor.” At first they are reluctant, but in a cloud of hashish they come up with the idea to film the story instead. Their film location is a campsite in Sicily, which they had already booked ages ago for summer vacation. The technical department consists of a couple “unique” men from the Vienna film scene. To everyone’s surprise, they even manage to get Kafka himself to play a supporting role in the film.

Die Steiermark in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts: Es ist Weihnachten in der Waldheimat des Dichters Peter Rosegger. In der Adventszeit trägt der Waldbauernbub Peter vor eleganter Gesellschaft im Hause der Familie Reininghaus erstmals seine mundartlichen Geschichten vor und wird damit zur Attraktion von Graz. Hans, der Neffe der Gastgeberin, freundet sich mit dem jungen Mann an, und es entsteht ein enges Vertrauensverhältnis, von dem jeder auf seine Weise profitiert. Bei einer winterlichen Schlittenfahrt erzählt Peter seinem Freund Hans die schönsten Weihnachtserlebnisse aus seiner Kindheit. Er berichtet dabei, wie er sich im Wald verlief, wie er die Christtagsfreude holen ging und von seinen Erlebnissen mit einem urigen Mann namens Bremer Sepp.

Verfilmung nach der gleichnamigen Erzählung von Ingeborg Bachmann

Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.

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On 6 May 1945, soldiers of the 88th US Infantry Division occupied the Himmlers’ family home in Gmund on Lake Tegernsee where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, journals and photographs. The film makes use of these materials and copious archive footage to sketch the biography of SS commander Heinrich Himmler who committed suicide at the end of May 1945 by taking a cyanide capsule. How did this nationalistic lower-middle-class man become Hitler’s henchman responsible for developing and executing the strategies that led to the murder of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Communists and Romany people? Where did his ideology originate? How did he see himself and how was he perceived in private by his wife Margarete, his daughter Gudrun and his mistress Hedwig? How could the man who often referred to so-called German virtues such as order, decency and goodness also write home in the midst of the war and Holocaust: ‘I am well in spite of my heavy workload’? What was it that caused his daughter to say after a visit to Dachau concentration camp: ‘It was lovely …’ A film about the pretensions of a mass murderer and the repression of any sense of guilt. Berlinale 2014

A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each station in Shirley’s professional and private life from the 1930s to 1960s is precisely dated: It is always August 28/29 of the year in question, as the locations vary from Paris to New York to Cape Cod.