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M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, [2] M centers on the manhunt for Beckert conducted by both the police and organized crime.
German officers present their findings regarding Katyn to captured Allied officers in 1943. Six months before the massacres at Katyn, on August 23, 1939, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin authorized the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany with a secret protocol to partition and annex Eastern Europe.
Lore is a 2012 German-language historical drama film directed by Cate Shortland.It is based on the 2001 novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert.In south-west Germany, during the aftermath of World War II, five destitute siblings must travel 900 km (560 mi) to their grandmother's home by the Bay of Husum near Hamburg after their high-level Nazi parents disappear in danger of arrest by Allied ...
In 1967, a visit by the Shah of Iran to West Berlin leads to a clash between the West German student movement and German police. In the chaos, unarmed protestor Benno Ohnesorg is fatally shot by policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras, outraging the West German public, including left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof, who claims in a televised debate that West Germany is a fascist police state.
Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp guard guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation, 1945 1960 Italy The Cuirassier † Il corazziere: Camillo Mastrocinque: Comedy. The misadventures of a short Italian soldier 1960 Italy France Escape by Night: Era notte a Roma (in Italian) Les Évadés de la nuit (in French) Roberto ...
Films about Japanese war crimes (4 C, 7 P) P. Films about the 1948 Palestinian exodus (7 P) R. Films about the Rwandan genocide (1 C, 17 P)
The Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s, taking in 25 million marks at the German box office. [2] New World Pictures paid $400,000 for the U.S. rights, [ 7 ] and the film became the highest-grossing German film in the United States, with a gross of $4 million, beating the record set a year earlier by ...
An unnamed elderly tailor narrates the parable, recounting events from a distant year in which he worked as a village schoolteacher and met his fiancée Eva, a nanny.The setting is the fictitious Protestant village of Eichwald, Northern Germany, from July 1913 to 9 August 1914, where the local pastor, doctor and baron rule over the area's women, children and peasant farmers.