Peter Striebeck Movies
- 1991
The litany of the horrors of the Naza era in Germany is extended in this drama, based on a true story. Sixteen-year old Walerjan is removed from his close-knit Polish family in 1941 by the German occupation. He is assigned to labor for a German war widow on her farm. He speaks no German and longs to return home. He doesn't mind the hard work -- he's used to that. When he inadvertently causes some small damage to her barn, he innocently imagines that the worst that can happen is that he will be returned home as an unsatisfactory laborer. Instead, he is convicted on mysterious charges of "treason" and is shipped to a concentration camp. He survives that experience and hopes that now that he has been released from that sentence, he may be free at last to return home. However, he is tried again and is sentenced to death, under the paradoxical rules of the Nazi justice system. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andrzej Mastalerz
- 1988
Leonhard, the brother of this film's scenarist Michael Lentz, is the subject of this unusual documentary. As Leonhard went through the rigors of being diagnosed and treated for throat cancer, eventually having a large portion of his throat removed, he kept a detailed diary. The pain and disruption brought into his life nearly cost him his sanity and threatened his habitual good cheer. However, he learned to talk again without the aid of a machine and enjoyed the final months of his life with something approaching his old gusto. Footage of the sufferer is paired with readings from his diary and interviews with family and friends. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 2008
With its unmistakable echoes of Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road, the German road movie-buddy comedy Sheep and Chips witnesses the friendship that evolves between two radically different men. Fuchs (Peter Jordan) is a genial foot control agent who spends his work days visiting a series of snack bars in Dithmarschen, Northern Germany and instilling order. Meanwhile, Tillmann Koch (Axel Prahl) - Fuchs's boss's brother and an ill-tempered alcoholic - gives up on the possibility of a happy life abroad and returns home to Dithmarschen to prove himself. Fuchs would love nothing more than to prove himself well suited for a job transfer to the big city, and that opportunity materializes when Tillman is assigned by the company to join Fuchs on an important business trip. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Axel Prahl, Peter Jordan, (more)
Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and Husbands. Having both been burned by unhappy relationships with men, Schygulla and Winkler become more and more reliant upon each other. The men in their lives can't come to grips with their strong friendship, and begin writing off Schygulla and Winkler as "oddballs." As in most of her films, writer/director Margarethe von Trotta probes the unspoken human complexities that draw people together. Von Trotta also weaves a political subtext into the proceedings: it isn't immediately obvious, but it's there all the same. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, (more)
- 1995
This Scandinavian tragedy is based on a novel by Knut Hamsun and centers on the reminiscences of Lt. Thomas Glahn, a big-game hunter, as he reflects upon the woman who continues to haunt him even though he has "quite forgotten" her. The story jumps back four years. It is summer in an isolated Norwegian fishing village. There the hunter lives in a leased hut in the middle of a forest. His only companion is Aesop, his beloved hunting dog. While there, he encounters Edvarda, a merchant's daughter; for both it is love at first sight. They begin innocently trysting at night in the forest, but their physical expressions of love are limited to the occasional kiss. At the beginning of their relationship, Glahn gives Edvarda two green feathers. Glahn reveres this young woman, and though she would like him to make love to her, he cannot. The woman gets frustrated and the relationship begins to sour. Glahn then begins a sexual relationship with a married woman and Edvarda marries another. Later a tragedy occurs and Glahn does something terribly cruel to Edvarda before he leaves. She returns the feathers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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