The Zürich Circle
Zürich, mid-1950s. Since Ernst, a shy young teacher, is hoping to secure a permanent position at a girls’ school, it behooves him to keep his interest in other men...
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The Great Museum
This charming film lifts a heavy brocade curtain and blows the dust off its venerable subject, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Director Johannes Holzhausen and...
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Where Ilse Aichinger Lives
One of the most important writers of postwar German literature, the Austrian poet and short story writer Ilse Aichinger has continued to be overlooked in the...
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At War – the First World War in 3D
There are no surprising plot twists in a film about World War I. What makes Im Krieg worth seeing is the 3D stereoscopic images that pop out at you, catapulting...
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The Decent One
Though historians and filmmakers have plumbed the widths and depths of the Holocaust, this fascinating Israeli-Austrian-German co-production depicts its terror...
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Dalai Lama Fails to be Elevated in Hamburg
News item: His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently traveled to Hamburg. Upon visiting the Museum of Ethnology to see an exhibition entitled ‘Tibet – Nomads at...
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