Synopsis:

Lola is a singer and dancer in a cabaret. Von Bohm is a construction inspector enchanted by Maria-Luise, the daughter of his land-lady. He receives an assignment to investigate possible corruption in a local night club; Von Bohm realizes that Marie-Louise is actually Lola, a dancer. This discovery will force him to choose between the woman he loves and a job he believes in.

digital, color, 113 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 17.02.2009 AT 19:00

Monday 16.02.2009 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

A Greek emigrant, Jorgos, enters the lifeless days of young people from the suburb of Munich. He represents a communist threat. When he starts dating a girl they beat him up, but it seems that in this early Fassbinder movie women have different views and easily accept something new. 

black and white, 88 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 18.02.2009 AT 19:00

Tuesday 17.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

An adaptation of the classic from the 19th century by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest is a 17-year-old forced to marry a baron 20 years older than she. Cheerful and happy by nature, Effi sinks into despair. In times of baron’s absence she is confronted by major Crampas… 

digital, b/w, 140 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 19.02.2009 AT 19:00

Wednesday 18.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

A story about forbidden love between a widow in her sixties, Emma, and worker Ali – from Morocco, twenty years younger than she. When the outer pressure calms down and when they are left alone, there arouses a new inner pressure bringing a new threat to their relationship. There is a question if Ali can adjust to the environment and life with Emma… 

color, 92'

PROJECTION:

Friday 20.02.2009 AT 19:00

Thursday 19.02.2009 AT 21:15

Synopsis:

Martha and Helmut Salomon are anything but a perfect couple. She is naďve, immature and self-centered, whereas he is selfish, possessive and sadistic. After they get married Helmut puts Martha’s mother in a mental institution and forbids Martha to continue doing the job she loves. After they return from their honeymoon he moves her into a new house without giving her the chance to take her things from the old home.

digital, color, 116 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 21.02.2009 AT 19:00

Friday 20.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is a black comedy about an unlucky and clumsy writer who tries every imaginable way to get hold of some money. He has a brother fascinated by flies, a wife who counts the days since they last slept together, a rich masochistic lover who he accidentally shoots -- and at least one more lover. In the midst of all this mess he finds time to declare himself the reincarnation of Stefan Georg, a gay German poet from the 19th century.

digital, color, 112 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 23.02.2009 AT 19:00

Saturday 21.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Maria Braun waits for the news of her husband who was sent to war. When she gets tired of being a passive wife, she starts working in an illegal bar for American soldiers. Soon she hears of her husband’s death; then she goes to the bar and asks a soldier to dance with her. But, as often happens in the confusion of war, her husband is not dead but imprisoned. His return makes things more complicated, but Maria Braun still has her ways of avoiding the role that the others want to impose on her. On...

digital, color, 120 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 24.02.2009 AT 19:00

Monday 23.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

A love story of a woman that sings for Nazis and a Jewish composer. Wilkie helps Robert transport the Jews to a safer territory. She becomes popular with a song, Lili Marleen, and even Hitler expresses a desire to see her. Despite all, Wilkie doesn’t forget Robert. 

digital, color, 120 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 26.02.2009 AT 21:00

Wednesday 25.02.2009 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The last part of the Fassbinder’s post-war trilogy (the first two are The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola) is an amalgam of a few stories from real life. Veronika Voss is an actress who was supposedly Gobles’ lover. Now when the things stop going well for her, she becomes addicted to morpheme and the doctor’s only concern is to take all the money from her. The only person willing to help is a sports journalist Robert Krohn, even at the cost of losing a girlfriend.

digital, b/w, 104 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 26.02.2009 AT 19:00

Wednesday 25.02.2009 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

The film explores the life and work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder including numerous clips from his films and commentary from his friends and family.

digital, color, 103 minute

PROJECTION:

Friday 27.02.2009 AT 20:00