Barbara Weber Movies
- 1994
This modern drama focuses on interracial, adolescent love between opposites. Marie is a fourteen year old beauty. The daughter of a black woman and a failed alcoholic writer, Marie has dropped out of school to live a life of petty crime. When she accidently meets Joe, a nerd from a conservative, Christian home, they fall instantly in love. Because their kind of love is forbidden, the couple finds a hideaway in cemetery vault where they consummate their love and escape from prying eyes. Marie's life gets her into trouble after she kills a man. The media is outraged by the relationship and by her actions. All Joe and Marie want is to be left alone so that she can give birth to their baby in a safe and peaceful place. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Estelle Vincent, Gay Etgar, (more)
- 1984
On February 20th, 1810, French and Bavarian forces killed the Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer in Mantua, at that time a part of Austria. Hofer had led the Tyroleans in their fight for independence from Bavaria and was betrayed by an insignificant farmer (Lois Weinberger), the betrayal and its effect on the farmer is the subject of this historically-based drama. Director Christian Berger has shot the story emphasizing visual poetics (lines of soldiers moving in seeming slow-motion across the white snow of a mountainside), as well as close-ups to reveal the nuances of subtle emotions as they play across the human face. Whatever the farmer Raffl's motivation -- he is clearly an underdog, overworked, with his labor unrecognized -- he receives no expected reward for his betrayal of Hofer's hiding place, and he has to quickly leave for the city to escape his fellow villagers' wrath. Once in the city and working hard in a factory, Raffl must come to grips with the fact that his identity has changed, and he may have betrayed himself as well as Hofer. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Weber
