#Ulrich Köhler

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In My Room (Ulrich Köhler, 2018)

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Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Ulrich Köhler

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Film after film: Bungalow (dir. Ulrich Köhler, 2002)

A slow-burn of a film, tagged by Mubi as an example of the "Berlin School" filmmaking, of which I wasn't aware. Burmeister is a magnetic anti-protagonist, who rarely changes his face expression and yet is an interesting character, an awol soldier in training who decides not to come back and passively drift around his family's bungalow, while waiting for the situation's resolution. The moments of him being alone, skating, masturbating, and just hanging out, are my favorite.

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Ulrich Matthes and Bruno Ganz in Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Laga, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Ulrich Noethen. Screenplay: Bernd Eichinger, based on books by Joachim Fest and Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller. Cinematography: Rainer Klausmann. Production design: Bernd Lepel. Film editing: Hans Funck. Music: Stephan Zacharias.

Downfall may be best known today for memes: the video parodies that take parts of the film, particularly the ranting of Bruno Ganz's Hitler, and supply new subtitles that spoof everything from contemporary politics to the efforts of the producers to suppress the parodies on YouTube because of copyright concerns. The producers were misguided: The parodies probably led more people to watch the actual film than would have without their notoriety. It's a well-made film, particularly because it manages to deal with an inherent problem: Would a dramatization of the last days of Hitler and his coterie tend to glamorize their futile struggle to survive, turning it into something like heroism? Ganz's superb performance helps the film sidestep that danger: His Hitler is humanized, to be sure, even to the point of once shedding a tear, but ultimately it's a portrait of repellent fanaticism and megalomania. He's a twitchy old man, one hand held behind his back in a palsied claw, but it's easy to see how the rather beleaguered men and women who surround him could be filled with a terrified awe of the man. I'm not particularly happy with the framing of Downfall, however. I think the decision to see much of the story through the eyes of Hitler's pretty secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Laga), shifts the focus away from the desperate horror of the final days, using a somewhat glossy survival story to keep the audience entertained. The footage of the real Traudl Junge that begins and ends the film doesn't much help illuminate why the "ordinary" German could be hoodwinked by Nazism, and her insistence that she didn't know of the true horrors of the Reich feels a little specious. There are, however, some moments of genuine drama in the film that emphasize how foul a spell Hitler cast over his followers, particularly the hysterical collapse of the otherwise icy Magda Goebbels (Corinna Harfouch) at Hitler's feet when she realize the end is at hand. She pulls herself together and then proceeds to systematically murder her five children. I also liked the depiction of the cynicism of the Nazis who, when someone reminds them of the plight of the German people, sneeringly retort that it was their fault for bringing them to power in the first place. There's a lesson in the film somewhere for contemporary Americans, but I don't want to be the one to spell it out. Kudos to Stephan Zacharias for avoiding Wagnerian clichés in his score, although I thought the quotation from Purcell's aria "When I Am Laid in Earth" might have been a touch too sentimental.

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#ProyeccionDeVida

🎥 Biografías. Mujeres y Sociedad, presenta:

🎬 “HANNAH ARENDT Y LA BANALIDAD DEL MAL”

🔎 Género: Drama / Años 60 / Nazismo / Holocausto / Basado en hechos reales

⌛️ Duración: 113  minutos

✍️ Guión: Pam Katz y Margarethe Von Trotta

🗯 Argumento: Biografía de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, discípula de Heidegger, que trabajó como periodista en el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio del pueblo judío durante la II Guerra Mundial, conocida por "la solución final".

👥 Reparto: Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt), Janet McTeer (Mary McCarthy), Klaus Pohl (Martin Heidegger), Axel Milberg (Heinrich Blücher), Ulrich Noethen (Hans Jonas), Julia Jentsch (Lotte Köhler) y Nicholas Woodeson (William Shawn).

📢 Dirección: Margarethe Von Trotta

© Productora: Heimatfilm

🌎 País: Alemania

📅 Año: 2012

📽 Proyección:

📆 Martes 05 de Marzo  

🕖 7:00pm.

🏪 Cine Club de la Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades (av. Bolivia 537 - Breña)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre con DNI.

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Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler, 2002)

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Fascinante y arriesgada. Una reflexión sobre la libertad total, sobre la soledad enfrentado a un mundo donde los demás han desaparecido. Adiós a las presiones sociales.

In My Room, 2018, Ulrich Köhler

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At what point do vaguely-related surface movements form into something resembling a wave? The idea of a so-called “Berlin School” has been doing the rounds for quite a while. However, the creative output of that group of filmmakers in the last few years has been nothing short of astonishing. Christian Petzold led the way with Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014) but nothing could have prepared us for Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann rocking Cannes or Valeska Grisebach’s Western doing the same last year. Petzold’s Transit divided audiences (we thought it was great) in Berlin in February and now we encounter this strange, intimate, little science-fiction film.

In My Room is a story about being the last man on earth. Yes, we’ve been here before with the likes of Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog and, heck, even Wall-E (to name but a few) but this particular man isn’t exactly longing for all the comforts and human contact of a lost old populated world (like those previously mentioned). Indeed, he seems pretty content with the new one.

Continue reading our Cannes review of In My Room.

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Bungalow (2002) - Ulrich Köhler

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In My Room (Ulrich Köhler, 2018)

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𓂃 ｡𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗋𝖾𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗀 ╱𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕕, 𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕤𝕥𝟞𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕝 ˚ ˑ꒷꒥

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Der Untergang aka Downfall (2004), dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel.

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Dietrich Wolff

Born: 1st January 1921

Deceased: 1st December 1979

Age: 58

Marital Status: Widow

Born: 4th January 1921

Height: 6'6 (198cm)

Nationality: German

Gender: Male

Hair colour: Black

Parent(s): Ludwig Wolff & Ingrid Wolff

Brother(s): Zelig, Blaz, Frederick

Eye colour: Green

Nicknames: The Wolff, The monster of Berlin, Wolff & Dieter

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Personality: Prone and known to his unpredictable fits of rage, violence and anger he inspired and speaded fear all throhgh out Berlin, America & Russia itself. Perseus most loyal man till the day he died.

Likes: Working for Perseus, collecting weapons, making arms deals, people obeying him, using different methods of torture, playing the piano, smoking, drinking alcohol

Dislikes: Captialists, Russell Adler, The CIA, anyone interfering with his private life, America

Goals: Kill Russell Adler & Assist Perseus in winning (Failed)

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Backstory:

The oldest out of four brothers, the big brother who would protect his younger siblings right? A man of high expectation, a figure to his younger siblings. . . What could possibly go wrong in life hm?

The CIA speaks of this man fondly, very fondly. They mark him with the nickname no other as "The monster of Berlin." Lieutenant Dietrich Wolff, once a war Hero in the Second World War. With a deep dark secret like every other man, his great knowledge in the battlefield, taskmanship, weaponry, tactical measures. He was your man for the job on the front line of the battlefield.

Along side of his brothers, all being deployed to the Battlefield in the Second World War. Blaz, Zelig soon went missing after the second World War ended, their wearabouts and appearances may remain unknown. The younger brother, Frederick dying in the battlefield through artillery strikes.

In 1944, Dietrich had become interested in the Gestapo. Proving himself worthy, he quickly got a job in the headquarters along side with Hermann Freisinger and Jannick Richter; Clearly he was the second oldest amongst there. But it didn't affect him too much, he did his job. And did his job very well, and quickly became second head of the Gestapo.

Reuniting with his Cousin Ulrich in the Gestapo, he was relived to know his cousin was ok and safe.

After the Second World War, rumors sparked of the Spyring and the man Codenamed: Perseus his curiosity sparked, interested he decided to see what all the fuss was about, after surrounding himself with the most powerful and well known people all of Russia— His deep connections, and aquatiences of no other than:

Jürgen Köhler, Stefan Müller, Klaus Schneider, Alphonso Krüger, Anton Volkov, Franz Kraus, Lev Kravchenko, Quasim Javadi, Arash Kadivar, Imran Zahkaev and Anton Charkov.

Dietrich dubbed himself as "The Wolff." And made a name of himself in Vietnam, to which intrigued Perseus. And with enough convincing he waisly became a member, and right hand man of Perseus.

(He was honorably discharged by the German army,  as a Lieutenant and soon to be General. Since he hasn't done any harm to his soldiers, he still kept his title)

There he made a promise to Perseus he will get him his right hand. Even after getting honourably discharged he still secretly worked with the KGB and Perseus himself.

Around that time Mia was pregnant with Elvira at 20 years Old. The pregnancy was unexpected, as Dietrich never worn protection. So Mia had no other choice to marry Dietrich because Elvira would've been a bastard child. And Dietrich forced Mia to marry him, so they got married immediately in early March 1960.

In the space of five years, Mia knew what Dietrich was up to. And what he wanted to do with Elvira, out of anger, and spite. And not to let Elvira being taken away from him, he killed Mia when she was 22 in 1963 while he was 42 at the time.

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They say history is written by the victors. This is a story from the side of the losers.

Downfall is a 2004 German-language historical war drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a screenplay by its producer, Bernd Eichinger, starring Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Alexander Held, Matthias Habich, and Thomas Kretschmann.