#Deutsche Cinema

[forestlion]

Good Bye, Lenin! dir. Wolfgang Becker

2003 ‧ Drama/Komödie ‧ 2 h 1 min

6/10

[cashmerecrow]

"Cesare, he knows all!"

"ask away!"

[marimayscarlett]

Today, I took a little day trip to Frankfurt to indulge in one of my favorite things – wandering through museums for hours and letting myself be captivated by art. Today at the Städel Museum 🎨 and the German Filmmuseum 📽️

'Allegory of the arts', Pompeo Batoni • 'In the roses', Dora Hitz • 'Mlle Julie Feurgard', Louise Catherine Breslau • 'Orchestra musicians', Edgar Degas • 'Brandenburg Gate' , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner • 'Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast', Andreas Achenbach • 'Goethe in the Roman Campagna', Johann H.W. Tischbein • 'Youth tempted by the vices', Luca Giordano • 'Idealized portrait of a lady', Sandro Botticelli

Original autographs of famous German movie stars (f.e. Romy Schneider, O.W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver and Gert Fröbe) • Scene from the movie 'Ali: Fear eats the soul' by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Examples for facial expressions for Jack Skellington ('The Nightmare before Christmas') • vintage poster for a movie show by the Lumière brothers (turn of the 20th century ) • Costume for the movie 'Alien', designed by artist HR Giger • little old me in the funky endless mirror bathroom in the museum 🪞

[thebrideofreanimator]

i’m going to cry

[esqueletosgays]

THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE / DAS DEUTSCHE KETTENSÄGENMASSAKER (1990)

Director: Christoph Schlingensief Cinematography: Christoph Schlingensief & Voxi Bärenklau

[totalement70]

Nicole Calfan par Jean-Claude Deutsch, 1970.

[bitter69uk]

How melancholy to reflect that Die Deutsche Kinemathek – the wonderful cinema museum in Berlin – is closing its doors permanently on 31 October 2024. It was a sleek and deluxe minimalist venue devoted to the history of German cinema, with an entire floor devoted to the personal archives of ultimate German diva Marlene Dietrich (following her death in 1992, her family bestowed Dietrich’s stage and screen costumes, personal correspondence, photos, home movies, props, etc.). Luckily, I got to visit the museum several times over the years – and it always lulled me into a trance of pleasure! According to its website, they are relocating to a temporary venue (which will open to the public later in 2025) while a permanent home is being constructed and “collections such as the Photo Archive, Document Archive, the Personal Papers and Company Archives and parts of the Marlene Dietrich Archive will still be accessible at our temporary base.” So, it’s not as apocalyptic as I initially feared when I read the news. Anyway, the last time I visited Die Deutsche Kinemathek (in 2011) I snatched this photo of the death mask of German filmmaker F W Murnau (1888 – 1931), one of the great poets and visionaries of early cinema (perhaps most famous for eerie horror masterpiece Nosferatu (1922)). His friend Greta Garbo commissioned the “"totenmaske” after Murnau died in a car crash (Kenneth Anger writes about the accident in ghoulish detail in his book Hollywood Babylon; legend has it Murnau's 14-year-old Filipino houseboy was driving). Garbo reportedly kept the souvenir on her desk for years. How morbid!

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧-𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐡 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟏) ❀

[the-dose-makes-the-poison]

©the-dose-makes-the-poison

[emily84]

Geschlecht in Fesseln (Germany 1928, by Wilhelm Dieterle)

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Elke Arendt in Paprika (1959) by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: German postcar by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden. Photo: Deutsche Cosmopol. Elke Arendt in Paprika (Kurt Wilhelm, 1959). German actress and author Elke Arendt (1939) became known for her impersonation of the fairy tale character Snow White in Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge/Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs (1955). Her later films included Hula-Hopp Conny (1959), Jazz und Jux in Heidelberg (1964) and Nebelmörder (1964).

[forestlion]

Die Wand, dir. Julian Roman Pölsler

2012 ‧ Drama/Drama ‧ 1 h 48 min

7.5/10

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass), 1976 - dir. Werner Herzog

[lisystrata]

От рассвета до полуночи

А вот и тот самый фильм, из-за которого Эрнст Дойч не смог сыграть сомнамбулу Чезаре в "Кабинете доктора Калигари": в паре с Эрной Морена они сыграли здесь банковского кассира и клиентку банка.

Фильм с русскими интертитрами.

From Morn to Midnight / Von morgens bis mitternachts This is the same film that prevented Ernst Deutsch from playing Cesare the somnambulist in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari": paired with Erna Morena, they played a bank teller and a bank client here.

Film with Russian intertitles.

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #632 - DAS BOOT

I love submarine movies, a kind of claustrophobic sub-genre: Run Silent, Run Deep, the Hunt for the Red October, Crimson Tide, the Abyss... I’m well into seeing people trapped in sardine cans, going mad and reckoning with human nature while the pressure outside the hatch threatens to engulf them all.

And especially this German film from Wolfgang Peterson, which is a complete classic and a real nail-biter.