Cathedrals of Culture

2014

English

6.9

♡ 5

56%

Action

Documentary

woman director

Robert Redford Director

Meret Becker as Narrator

Gennadi Vengerov as Narrator

Margreth Olin as Narrator

Benedicte C. Westin as Narrator

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world's most humane prison; the Salk Institute, an institute for breakthrough science; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.

Das Versprechen

1994

German

6.7

♡ 2

67%

Margarethe von Trotta Director

Christina Große as

Karl Kranzkowski as 1st Border Official

Anian Zollner as Konrad I

Meret Becker as Sophie I

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.

Kokowääh

2011

German

6.2

♡ 8

63%

Action

Comedy

family relationships

father daughter relationship

mother daughter relationship

Til Schweiger Director

Meret Becker as Charlotte

Johann von Bülow as Feuerwehrmann

Til Schweiger as Henry

Sönke Möhring as Polizist

Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that he is not the father so their relationship now is breaking up... By the way: Kokowääh, is how a German (in this case an 8 Year old child) that has never heard the dish before - would pronounce "Coq Au Vin" (chicken in a wine sauce).

Killer Condom

1996

German

5.4

♡ 7

Martin Walz Director

Anna Thalbach as

Barbara Philipp as

Iris Berben as Dr. Doris Riffleson

Meret Becker as Phyllis Higgins

In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.

Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace

2016

German

6.2

Comedy

Timo Jacobs Director

Susanne Wuest as Anzugträgerin

Meret Becker as Lenker Gaby

David Bredin as Molle Kalinowski

Werner Daehn as Pfleger

Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then sends a representative named Fey of Sweden to approve Cowboy's proposal. She demands results and he decides to stage a charity bicycle rally featuring a roster of two-wheeled Berlin misfits. Meanwhile Cowboy's neighbor kills his mother's budgie and sets the Devil of Hermannplatz on him to sabotage his plans. Pretty bad timing considering that he also has to rescue his stubborn mother from a shady retirement home. Torn between Cowboy's budding crush on Fey of Sweden, his hot neighbor Angel and his innate drive towards chaos, the rally soon turns into a race against time. Soon his mother will be taken away from him and the rally racers are doing anything other than what they should: cycling.

Wetlands

2013

German

5.8

♡ 14

91%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

based on true story

Comedy

doctor patient relationship

David Wnendt Director

Andreas Schmidt as Freund der Eltern

Carla Juri as Helen Memel

Meret Becker as Helens Mutter

Peri Baumeister as Schwester Valerie

Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...

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Das Versprechen

Kokowääh

Killer Condom

Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace

Wetlands