Peter Kern

Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad (imdb)

A 7 hour examination of the Hitler phenomenon which swept pre-Nazi Germany

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide. (imdb)

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon... (imdb)

Avant-garde portrait of the king of Bavaria.

While traveling on the Trans-Mongolian Railway, when a cozy group of female western tourists are abducted by a horde of female Mongolians wearing tribal dress, they fear the worst. They are forced to learn traditional Mongolian ways, and are made to do all sorts of onerous chores in the old-fashioned ways. (allmovie.com)

A group of Dutch artists try to set up an erotic show in a Berlin nightclub. When the show flops, the group fades away into alcohol abuse and sexual excesses. The Virgin Mary manifests herself to the group and offers them happiness. But happiness is hard to find...

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family... (imdb)

A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in love with a beautiful inmate, and decides to help her and all the other prisoners escape. (imdb)

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich. (imdb)

Despised, stigmatised and suppressed to the fringe of society -- this is the reality young, male prostitutes face in Berlin. Most of the hustlers are immigrants, a lot of them act out of necessity. Rosa von Praunheim acompanies the young adults at their work in bars, porn movie theatres and on the street. He shows their reasons, their stories and above all, their strong will to survive.

Cinematographic adaptation of the first three performance from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus: "What the Body Does Not Remember" (1987), "Les Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles" (1989) and "The Weight of a Hand" (1990). (imdb)

Cinematographic adaptation of the performance "Immer das Selbe gelogen", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. (imdb)

An extravaganza on the "roaring 1950s" in West Germany, when the rich were partying through the decade with little else on their minds than hedonistic pleasures, and the poor were struggling to become richer. Documentary clips bring in the realities of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War, and their honesty stands in sharp contrast to the exaggerated lifestyles that permeate the screen. The story focuses on the super-rich Jakob Formann (Kurkura) and his exploits and friends in high and low places. (allmovie.com)

This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man.

Linda's Polish grandma celebrates her 80th birthday with Linda and her husband Lothar. Grandma is dead the next day. Problem: the deceased should be buried next to her husband in Poland. However, proper transfer is too expensive. Lothar has the idea to bring grandma in a surfboard carrier in private car to Poland. The gasoline goes out, the car is stolen and an odyssey begins, until the grandma has found her last rest in Kowalew, next to Grandpa Pyotr.

A Bavarian newspaper seller wins a trip to New York, where he meets a German girl about to kill herself and they form a romantic relationship. (imdb)