Marran Gosov
Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her slaves. She is a business woman who smashes sexual stereotypes and social taboos with icy self-possession and an enigmatic smile. As artist she specializes in the staging of elaborate BDSM fantasies and her affairs transgress the usual boundaries of personal and professional life. Along the way she leaves her German lesbian lover, a shoe fetishist, for an American "trainee," and does more than step on the toes of the male performer who has broken the rules of the master-slave relationship by falling in love with her.
Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Their happy life is disrupted when Frankie attends a lecture and quickly becomes involved in a sinister cult operating as a self-help group called “Optimal Optimism”. Madame C, a former Nazi party member, is the leader of Optimal Optimism. When the cult members discovers that Frankie is gay, he is repeatedly raped by both men and women of the group. Hannes must find a way to rescue him.
A woman moves back and forth between two men and two cities.
Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.
A girl travels from her hometown in upper Bavaria to Munich in order to lose her virginity.
“Not with that mane!” A fictional portrait of a young Mersey beat fan, who is deemed a “sissy” because of his long hair, so he can’t find a vocational training slot. Documentary footage of the street and youth scene in Munich alternates with narrative passages in which the 19-year-old’s parents take a ruthless approach to solving the problem.
For some guys it's easier to deal with their toy race cars than it is to deal with women...
Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a “collective scream” of Cold War fear, was produced just after he left his country.
