As the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, a new exhibition is depicting the period of upheaval in East Germany from May 1989 to December 1990 with an intimate collection of photos and video.
Germany on Monday marked the 65th anniversary of a failed attempt by members of the <i>Wehrmacht</i> to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his "Wolf's Lair" eastern military headquarters in 1944.
American film star Robert Redford secretly married his long-time girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg over the weekend, daily <i>Hamburger Abendblatt</i> reported on Wednesday.
The last reel to be dug out of East Germany's banned film vault premieres for the first time in Dresden on Wednesday, 43 years after it got the censor’s ax.
The Munich film festival opened on Friday with Terry Gilliam’s film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – the last movie to be made by late Hollywood star Heath Ledger.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has donned a skin-tight pink suit complete with sewn on genitalia in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to promote his new film "Bruno."
Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary 1927 silent film "Metropolis" discovered in Argentina last year will be sent to Wiesbaden for restoration, officials from the two countries announced this week.
Find the latest English-language movies in Germany with The Local's cinema listings. New this week is the action comedy “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” with Ben Stiller.
So far, we have listings for Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart; other cities will be added in the coming weeks. This week’s cinematic highlight is the mystery thriller “Angels & Demons” with Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor and the latest edition of the “Star Trek” franchise.
So far, we have listings for Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Stuttgart; other cities will be added in the coming weeks. This week’s new movie releases are the Sci-Fi thriller “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” with Hugh Jackman, crime thriller “Duplicity” with Julia Roberts and the family comedy “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”
A film about a German salesman who rescued thousands of Chinese from the Japanese army in 1937 won the Lola prize for best feature film of 2008, along with three other awards at the German Film Awards in Berlin Friday night.
An Australian library has discovered it has a carbon copy of the original complete “Schindler’s List,” detailing 801 of the more than 1,000 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler from Nazi extermination, the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i> reported on Monday.
English-language films dubbed into German are irritating at best. Wish you could soak up the gravelly tones of Jack Nicholson instead of his German Doppelgänger? The Local's guide to English language films in Germany tells you where and when to find the real thing. So far, we have listings for Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Düsseldorf; other cities will be added in the coming weeks.
A film on women's survival after two decades of guerrilla war in Peru, "The Milk of Sorrow," has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
<b>Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a team of Germany's top directors have turned their cameras on their own country, producing short, sharp vignettes sizing up the reunited nation, writes AFP's Deborah Cole.</b>
<b>German director Jochen Hick has helped redefine a genre he hardly identifies with: gay cinema. Exberliner Magazine sat down with him to talk about his seventh official Berlinale selection premiering this week, "The Good American."</b>
