Christine Schorn Movies
A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal upon his mother's awakening, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible. Keeping their apartment firmly rooted in the past, Alex's scheme works for a while, but it's not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, (more)
- 1991
This drama appears to have been oriented to citizens of the former East Germany and other former Iron Curtain countries. In the story, set in the 1970s, a girl has been learning the ropes at a newspaper job. However, under the communist regime, this was considered to be a particularly politically sensitive job and she is seeing a young man who is considered to be "unsuitable." After receiving a warning against seeing him, she complies with the wishes of the authorities for a time. However, she is unable to stay away and receives further threats. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Gwisdek
- 1988
This psychological drama begins when a young teen-aged boy is ratted on by his own mother. It just happens that she is a police pathologist called to the scene of a murder. The dead boy she is examining is her son's chief rival and former best friend. During his interrogation by police, the entire story of the boys' sad plight comes to light, and it becomes possible to understand (if not condone) the murder, which he actually did commit. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anne Kasprik
- 1985
Based on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction, this drama tells the story of two soldiers fighting together in World War I. Karl (Joachim Latsch) and Richard (Hans-Use Bauer) become close friends while serving time in a German POW camp. One day Karl manages a successful escape and goes to Richard's home where he seeks refuge posing as Richard. But Richard's wife Anna (Kathrin Waligura) has never given up hope that her husband is still alive -- a possibility that would shatter Karl's proposed new life. In fact, Richard did not die in the POW camp. This film shared the Grand Prix award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Zimmermann
- 1984
In this engaging story of a romantic struggle, Sybille Seewald (Christine Schorm) has successfully managed a company's kitchen for two decades and as a reward, the bosses throw her a dance party one evening, where she meets Harald (Jörg Gudzuhn) at the bar. Both are facing a similar mid-life crisis: Harald's wife has died, a victim of breast cancer, and Sybille is not completely satisfied spending her evenings alone. It does not take long for the two to find that they are highly suited to each other: Harald needs a mother for his children and Sybille wants to get away from work and just take care of a home. Almost as a matter of convenience, the two decide to share their lives, and everything would be fine except Sybille has her own ideas about how to run a family and a household, and Harald has his old ways of doing things - clashes begin to occur, and to occur with more frequency, until Sybille flies the nest and heads back to work. It is at that point that she starts to "get in touch with" her feelings, finding a few surprises as she does so. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christine Schorn
- 1982
This movie is reputed to be the first Palestinian film ever made, and it expertly handles the question of identity and the issue of "going home" when "home" has drastically changed. The story is based on a 1968 novel by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, assassinated in 1973. At the time when Israel was carved out of 4/5 of the formerly British-controlled Palestine (May 14,1948), a couple was forced to leave their home in Haifa -- and in the chaos of the exodus of 500,000 Palestinians from the new Jewish state, their infant son disappeared. Now it is 20 years later, and they have returned to discover that their son was adopted by a Jewish family who entered Haifa at the same time the Palestinians were leaving -- and their son is as Jewish as they are Palestinian. He is also serving as a soldier in the Israeli army, and he feels all the love for his Jewish mother that a biological son would feel. As both families grapple with their emotions, they come to realize that a difficult situation such as this may sometimes have no answer at all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christine Schorn
- 1981
Inge Herold (Christine Schorn) is divorced with one teenage son, she is approaching middle age, has a lover she cannot marry because he is already married, and ironically, is a marriage counselor. Her life has changed radically overnight because she has found out she may have breast cancer. She is followed throughout one day as she grapples with the possibility that she will need a mastectomy -- her apprehensions change and switch tonalities as the day goes on, but they will be very hard to shake until her ordeal is over. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christine Schorn, Hermann Beyer, (more)
