West Germany movies

The Big Blue (1988)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: David Brisbin | Taunie Vrenon | John Erdman | Jim Neu | Sheila McLaughlin | Ben Ben Yehuda | Ted Castle | Frank Conversano | Dan Crozier | Nick Edwards | Wyatt Knaster | John Nesci | Terry O'Reilly | Jose Rafael | William Rice
Directors: Andrew Horn
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Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques’ father, who was a diver too, died in the mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientist. He dives for some minutes into ice cold water and the scientist monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin’s than a human’s. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she’s unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both man into dangerous territory…

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin | Michael Lonsdale | Volker Prechtel | Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | William Hickey | Michael Habeck | Urs Althaus | Valentina Vargas | Ron Perlman | Leopoldo Trieste | Franco Valobra | Vernon Dobtcheff
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain | West Germany
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Marianne Koch | Gian Maria Volonté | Wolfgang Lukschy | Sieghardt Rupp | Joseph Egger | Antonio Prieto | José Calvo | Margarita Lozano | Daniel Martín | Benito Stefanelli | Mario Brega | Bruno Carotenuto | Aldo Sambrell
Directors: Sergio Leone
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An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: UK | West Germany
Actors: John Neville | Eric Idle | Sarah Polley | Oliver Reed | Charles McKeown | Winston Dennis | Jack Purvis | Valentina Cortese | Jonathan Pryce | Bill Paterson | Peter Jeffrey | Uma Thurman | Alison Steadman | Ray Cooper | Don Henderson
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron’s stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of “Munchausen’s Syndrome”, a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Barret Oliver | Gerald McRaney | Drum Garrett | Darryl Cooksey | Nicholas Gilbert | Thomas Hill | Deep Roy | Tilo Prückner | Moses Gunn | Noah Hathaway | Alan Oppenheimer | Sydney Bromley | Patricia Hayes | Tami Stronach
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it “borrowing” it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible “Nothing” Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.