Movies: Thomas Mauch

  • 1968
    The Cat Has Nine Lives

    The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)

    The Cat Has Nine Lives

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    Katharina and Anne go on trips, visit cafés, acquaintances and parties. In doing so, they explore the chances of female emancipation in a male-dominated society. Katharina strives for a life without sentimental compulsion. She believes that she has s...

    The Cat Has Nine Lives
  • 1970
    The Flying Doctors of East Africa

    The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1970)

    The Flying Doctors of East Africa

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    The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying doctors" service of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Nairobi....

    The Flying Doctors of East Africa
  • 2013
    Saroyanland

    Saroyanland (2013)

    Saroyanland

    6.52013HD

    Saroyanland is a docu-drama focusing on the journey of famous writer William Saroyan to the birthplace of his Armenian family Bitlis, in Turkey in 1964. While retaking the same road, the film aims to understand Saroyan's unique attitude to belonging,...

    Saroyanland
  • 1980
    The Candidate

    The Candidate (1980)

    The Candidate

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    Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most impo...

    The Candidate
  • 1971
    The Big Mess

    The Big Mess (1971)

    The Big Mess

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    Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking....

    The Big Mess
  • 1976
    Erika's Passions

    Erika's Passions (1976)

    Erika's Passions

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    Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very...

    Erika's Passions
  • 1976
    Strongman Ferdinand

    Strongman Ferdinand (1976)

    Strongman Ferdinand

    61976HD

    The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The...

    Strongman Ferdinand
  • 1979
    The Patriotic Woman

    The Patriotic Woman (1979)

    The Patriotic Woman

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    Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers ...

    The Patriotic Woman
  • 1970
    The Indomitable Leni Peickert

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert (1970)

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert

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    The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter work, seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film, continues the story of the circ...

    The Indomitable Leni Peickert
  • 1981
    No Mercy, No Future

    No Mercy, No Future (1981)

    No Mercy, No Future

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    Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting...

    No Mercy, No Future
  • 1968
    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher (1968)

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

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    Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra....

    E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher
  • 1982
    Desperado City

    Desperado City (1982)

    Desperado City

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    Skoda is the son of a wealthy, overbearing banker and rather than put up with his father to keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the relationship and drive a taxi for a living. The film follows Skoda on his nightly rides through the ci...

    Desperado City
  • 1989
    Waller's Last Trip

    Waller's Last Trip (1989)

    Waller's Last Trip

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    For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his chil...

    Waller's Last Trip
  • 2012
    The Bella Vista

    The Bella Vista (2012)

    The Bella Vista

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    “The Bella Vista” is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a Catholic Chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay. In this playful documentary, two transvestites,...

    The Bella Vista
  • 1989
    Maria von den Sternen

    Maria von den Sternen (1989)

    Maria von den Sternen

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    Katja Junge plays the title role in this West German romantic drama, directed by noted cinematographer Thomas Mauch. Maria is just as girl who can't say "Nein," thus she goes through several lovers before the plot proper gets underway. When Maria fin...

    Maria von den Sternen
  • 1985
    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

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    A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives....

    The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
  • 1967
    Au Hasard Bresson

    Au Hasard Bresson (1967)

    Au Hasard Bresson

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    In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers — visited the set of Robert Bresson's "Mouchette" (1967) and created this half-hour documentary about the director. ...

    Au Hasard Bresson
  • 1990
    Butterbrot

    Butterbrot (1990)

    Butterbrot

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    Butterbrot
  • 2009
    Hunger

    Hunger (2009)

    Hunger

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    Hunger
  • 1986
    Miscellaneous News

    Miscellaneous News (1986)

    Miscellaneous News

    3.51986HD

    A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut S...

    Miscellaneous News