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Borchert, Ernst Wilhelm 1907-1990 Concentration camp inmates Germany Drama Ex-Nazis Germany Drama Feature films Feature films Germany (East) Germany Social conditions 20th century Drama Motion pictures Germany (East) Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany Berlin Drama World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects Drama Zwischenrassisches Datieren Deutschland DramaFilter By Series
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Borchert, Ernst Wilhelm 1907-1990 Concentration camp inmates Germany Drama Ex-Nazis Germany Drama Feature films Feature films Germany (East) Germany Social conditions 20th century Drama Motion pictures Germany (East) Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany Berlin Drama World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects Drama Zwischenrassisches Datieren Deutschland DramaFilter By Series
Criterion collectionSummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: In the aftermath of World War II, Susanne Wallner returns from a concentration camp to find that her Berlin apartment is occupied by Dr. Hans Mertens, a former officer in the German army who has been severely traumatized by the atrocities perpetrated by his superiors. The unlikely pair form a delicate friendship as they struggle to restore some normalcy to their hellishly bleak existence. By...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International in association with the University of Massachusetts, c1999. 1999