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| Gregy1727 Triglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6541 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Afrikaans | Message 1 of 34 07 October 2007 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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Can someone please recommend good films for the learner of German?
So far, I have the following in my collection, and want to buy more Lola Rennt Das Leben der Anderen Das Experiment Das Boot Anatomie PS.. I apologize if this isn't the correct category for posting, but the rest were too specific, and General Discussion sounded... well.. general.. Edited by Gregy1727 on 07 October 2007 at 2:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6671 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 2 of 34 07 October 2007 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
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Gegen die Wand
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 34 07 October 2007 at 5:28am | IP Logged |
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Recently, half-documentary movies have been popular here. That is movies that feature a few original characters or a few non-confirmed happenings while trying to paint an entirely accurate picture of a historic event. Movies in that category:
- Der Untergang - about the last days of the Third Reich - Die Luftbrücke - about the air bridge when the Soviets were blocking Berlin - Dresden - about the bombing of the city during the 2nd world war - Das Wunder von Bern - about winning the soccer championship 1954 (not just for soccer fans, contains a lot of post-war feel, e. g. illustrating the problems of returning POWs, broken-up families, lone mothers, kids without childhood etc.) - Das Wunder von Lengede - about a mining accident burying several miners. Other movies to watch: - Der bewegte Mann - comedy about life, sex, transvestites (careful: lots of slang and I haven't found a subtitled version yet - let me know if you do) - Knockin' on heavens door - about two guys that suffer from an untreatable disease - Feuerzangenbowle - classic. Traditionally people gather at least once a year in order to watch this movie and drink Feuerzangenbowle (hot spiced wine with rum and sugar). The movie itself is not all that extraordinary, it's a comedy about a famous writer returning back to school incognito. Also try the TV series "Türkisch für Anfänger" about a German-Turkish family. It received several awards, e. g. for its treatment of multicultural issues. I would also recommend "Der Schuh des Manitu" because it's quite funny and was extremely popular here, but it's hard for foreigners to get it because it's a parody of Karl May stories and/or Karl May movies and the main actors don't speak Hochdeutsch (though their dialect is not so bad that it wouldn't be understood across Germany). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6322 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 4 of 34 07 October 2007 at 7:14am | IP Logged |
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Nirgendwo in Afrika If you want to really test your patience, I'd suggest (not recommend!) Deutschland im Herbst. And I second Gegen die Wand. Fantastic film. Edited by Fränzi on 07 October 2007 at 7:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6275 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 5 of 34 07 October 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
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I don't know the exact name in German or in english, but there's a couple of Win Wenders' Films that have an easy German for us. I go to traslate since the Spanish name:
The sky above Berlin (perhaps can be: The heaven above berlin) So far and so close To be sure, search Films by Win Wenders 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cadomniel Groupie Canada senseandsanity.com Joined 7201 days ago 88 posts - 90 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Italian | Message 6 of 34 07 October 2007 at 10:47am | IP Logged |
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Die Fetten Jahren Sind vorbei
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| Gregy1727 Triglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6541 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Afrikaans | Message 7 of 34 07 October 2007 at 10:58am | IP Logged |
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Wow. thanks for all these! they should keep me rather busy.
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