Elfriede Irrall

13 of Edward Hopper's paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history. Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and early '60s. (shirley-visions-of-reality.com)

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. (Film Forum)

It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Russian prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them gets killed. Some succeed to hide in nearby villages. But the Nazis convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt them like rabbits. (imdb)

This two-part drama examines the fate of the generation of Germans which came of age after World War II. (imdb)

Guy falls in love with cleptomanic girl, tries to keep her out of trouble. (imdb)