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Film Movement volume 12, film 12
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Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he’s from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn’t given...
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Siggi Jepsen, a young man in juvenile detention, must write an essay on "The Joys Of Duty" as part of his punishment. The topic overwhelms Siggi so much, he suffers at first from writer's block. Once put in solitary confinement, he finds the clarity to recount his childhood during the war in a small north-German village. His memories focus on his relationship with his father, a police officer of the village and a family friend and expressionist painter....
3) Sasha
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Sasha, confronted with the everyday prejudice of his homophobic immigrant family, struggles with his urge to come out. When his beloved piano teacher Gerbhard Weber plans to leave the city, the young man is heartbroken. The only person in whom he can confide his feelings is his best friend Jiao. After a failed audition, Sasha swears never to play piano again, but a consoling telephone call from Gerbhard changes his mind, and causes a chain of events....
4) Jonathan
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Twenty-three-year-old Jonathan devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But his father stubbornly sabotages his son's efforts to care for him. When Burghardt's long-lost friend Ron appears, his health visibly improves. Jonathan and his aunt see Ron as an intruder until Jonathan discovers that many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love.
5) Fatherland
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"Fatherland is singular director Ken Loach's excursion into the world of European cinema, an ambitious film--written by Trevor Griffiths--about an East German singer-songwriter who exchanges the political repression of his home country for the new pressures of capitalism in the West. The search for his lost father and a skittish relationship with a journalist only add to the young artist's turmoil, beautifully captured by the camera of the brilliant...
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