Language: German – Wimbledon Film Club

The Lives of Others

Von Donnersmarck’s powerful, beautifully crafted film captures life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when secret police or Stasi agents scrutinised the population for signs of dissent or divergence from toeing the line of the totalitarian regime.

Waltz With Bashir

This animated film depicts director Ari Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War.

The White Ribbon

Unsettling incidents take place in a small village in north Germany before World War I.

Barbara

This tense story of love and subterfuge set in the world of The Lives of Others was a huge success in Germany and was selected as the German entry to the Oscars.

Lore

As the Allies carve up Germany, Lore leads her siblings to safety.

Victoria

Shot in a snigle, continuous tahe, Victoria tells the tale of a Spanish woman, new to the city of Berlin, who meets two men at a club and gets mixed up in a bank robbery.

Son of Saul

At several camps the Nazis established units of Jewish male prisoners (sonderkommandos) picked for their youth and relative health.

Frantz

A change of tone again from prolific director Ozon, (Potiche, 8 Women, Swimming Pool) this time a romantic mystery with a plot that twists and turns like a slinky.

In the Fade

Akin brings us an important film giving focus to the impact of xenophobia rather than the much-charted rise of extremist views in western countries, in this case Germany.

Transit

Transit is based on a 1944 novel by German-Jewish writer Anna Seghers, who draws on her own experience as a refugee.