“…The film is set in the Spring of 1944, when the Red Army is pushing back the German forces to the Soviet border. The ‘Star’ of the title is the name given to an elite Red Army reconnaissance unit that creates havoc behind the enemy lines. …”

“…Duration: 01:30:00 A documentary on the World War II German motion picture and its use as a propaganda tool during the times of Goebbels. …”

“…The re-edited version of the film “Your Job in Germany”, “Hitler Lives” was produced at the end of WWII and warned that although Adolf Hitler was dead, his ideas lived on in the German people. The world must stay ever vigilant, so that Germany cannot wage war against the world again. …”

“…Director Ove Nyholm draws a parallell to the second world war and the German massacres of jews. Warning: This film includes disturbingly explicit scenes.…”

“…Soros Documentary Fund As a teenager Rudy Kennedy was a slave labourer for various German companies during the Third Reich. He was lucky to survive, and later became a successful businessman in London. …”

“…On his return to Moscow, he was at first honored, and later executed on Stalin’s orders following the German attack on the USSR.…”

“…Verzio FF Submission Barbara Danz is a German woman who is very much attached to her home - the house in which she was born. …”

“…Verzio FF submission After years of trying to help his fellow Roma (Gypsy) people, Safet Tairov has finally convinced a group of Germans to donate humanitarian goods and build a kindergarten. …”

“…A disconcerting portrait of a Hungarian town thrown into disarray by the arrival of a new parish priest, the film is a web of fragmented and often intersecting narratives: the audience follows a wheelchair-bound veteran of the 1956 uprising unable to commit suicide; an astronomer who moonlights in a punk band; the abused wife of an explosives officer who runs away to join the band; and their son, who films his world with a German tourist's Super 8 camera. A pioneering work of European cinema.…”

“…Verzio FF submission More than 4 million illiterate German speakers are living in Germany, the home of poets and philosophers. …”

“…More than 30 years of silence are broken when Chilean-born Germán Berger-Hertz starts to piece together the puzzle of his father's life. …”

“…Duration: 01:40:00 “Polumgla” literally means “dusk,” but in the film it is a northern Russian village, far away from the front lines, where German prisoners of war are sent to build a tower declared to be an important military project. …”

“…Verzio FF submission. recounts the difficulties in the making of Helmut Käutner’s Die Letzte Brücke (The Last Bridge) (1954), an Austrian-Yugoslav-West German coproduction under the aegis of Columbia Pictures that received a special award at Cannes together with an honorable mention to actress Maria Schell for her remarkable performance. …”

“…Recently rediscovered contemporary news footages from American, French, German and Russian archives further enrich the visual content of this documentary.…”

“…Verzio FF Circo Soluna is a 20-year-old traveling circus run by the German Brender family: two parents and three children. …”

“…He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of the escapees, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest, his dearest.…”

“…Verzio FF Submission Five stories of a dream of freedom and the crushing reality of Stasi (East German secret police) detention. The protagonists – Catharina, Andreas, Lothar, Anne and Mario – represent the group of around 72,000 ex-convicts imprisoned in the GDR for attempting to flee the republic. …”

“…This is the space where business can flourish: a company takes dirty laundry from German hotels to Poland - and brings it back clean the very next day. …”

“…Parade on Red Square, Trotsky's speech, German ambassador, Chicherin, other Soviet politicians on Red square, Red Army soldiers, demonstrations, speeches on Red square, military parade, scenes from the air - panorama over a city, scenes from the Civil War, 1918-1921. …”

“…Duration: 01:47:00 In the last few years before Nazi power overtook the German film industry, Kurt Weill's operetta reached the screen in this effective and well-cast version. …”