Christian Petzold
1) Barbara
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Deutsch
Description
"A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital"--Internet Movie Database.
2) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
3) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the end of World War II, Nelly, an Auschwitz survivor, has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns home to determine whether or not her gentile husband betrayed her to the Nazis.
4) Jerichow
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a small northeastern German town, the wife of a Turkish businessman and an ex-soldier begin a doomed affair.
5) Afire
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Description
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest...
6) Yella
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
Following a near-death experience, a young woman flees her East German hometown and failed marriage to start over in Hanover. By chance she finds work with an ambitious and determined executive and enters a ruthless world of big business and cut-throat boardroom deals. But just as she seems poised to fully realize her ambitions, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past that threaten to destroy her new life.
7) Undine
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver offering her a chance at new love?