The series “Hamburg damals” has become something of a Filmfest Hamburg classic. This year features the seventh part, treating the first half of the turbulent 1980s. Aerobics and karaoke are invented, the Green Party moves into the town hall. The ...
Belgium 2008 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Geoffrey Enthoven
Martin and Eline are a happy couple with two children and a holiday home in Tuscany. This last becomes their downfall as their bank clerk makes off with the money before the house is paid for. Then one disaster follows another. Are the looming shadow ...
A documentary film to premiere in Filmfest Hamburg’s TV section. Stephan Lamby has succeeded in inducing former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an indepth interview. Kissinger is a powerful man, whose advice was sought. In 1973 he received ...
13-year-old Esther doesn’t fit in anywhere: at an expensive private school she is teased with the nickname “Cheeseburger”, she is not Jewish enough for her twin brother’s liking and her parents disapprove of her rebellious behaviour. When she ...
Argentina 2008 | 252 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Mariano Llinás
The four hour epos was the topic of conversation at the Argentine Film Festival, where it won a number of prizes. Three men, called H (Agustín Mendilaharzu), X (director Llinas) and Z (Walter Jakob), are subject to existential tasks, and are obsesse ...