During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly distributed to the student body. At first small in numbers and fearful of discovery, the White Rose begins to gain massive support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot after a provokative speech. At this point, the matter is taken over by the German Gestapo, who pledge to hunt down and destroy the members of the White Rose.

From the Life of the Marionettes

1980

German

7.2

♡ 15

64%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Robert Atzorn as Peter Egermann

Martin Benrath as Professor Mogens Jensen

Toni Berger as The Guard

Erwin Faber as The Servant

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Stalingrad

1993

German

7.5

♡ 46

world war ii eastern front

Joseph Vilsmaier Director

Dominique Horwitz as Fritz Reiser

Martin Benrath as General Hentz

Thomas Kretschmann as Hans von Witzland

Oliver Broumis as HGM

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.

Schtonk

1992

German

7.1

♡ 4

Helmut Dietl Director

Ulrich Mühe as Dr. Wieland

Götz George as Hermann Willié

Veronica Ferres as Martha

Martin Benrath as Uwe Esser

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.

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From the Life of the Marionettes

Stalingrad

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