The Last Metro 1980  PG, 133 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
aka: Le Dernier Metro
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Jean-Louis Richard, Sabine Haudepin, Andrea Ferreol, Marcel Berbert, Richard Bohringer, Paulette Dubost, Maurice Risch, Franck Pasquier, Pierre Belot, Rene Dupre, Rose Thiery
During the World War II Nazi occupation of Paris, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) strives to save both her Jewish husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and the Theatre Montmarte. The only hope of saving the Montmarte is a new play in which Marion stars, while director Lucas hides in the basement listening in on rehearsals. Meanwhile, there is a romantic attraction between Marion and the play's leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu), but they manage to resist temptations as Marion chooses to remain loyal to her country and to her husband.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975  R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jurgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Harald Kuhlmann, Rolf Becker, Herbert Fux, Regine Lutz, Werner Eichhorn, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Angelika Hellebrecht, Horatius Haberle, Henry van Lyck
Based on Heinrich Boll's novel, this is a film denouncing the German press and police as the story appeals for respect for human rights. The story evolves around Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) who falls in love and, naively, lets her new lover, Ludwig (Jurgen Prochnow) spend the night. The next morning, he has disappeared, the police are at her door, and she is arrested. Too late, Katharina learns that her lover is a terrorist and traitor, and she will be the victim of persecution.
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 Possession 1981  R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Andrzei Zulawski
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Shaun Lawton, Michael Hogben, Maximilian Ruthlein, Thomas Frey, Leslie Malton, Gerd Neubert
Mark (Sam Neill) returns from an extended business trip to find his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), presumably insane. She also confesses to having a lover (Heinz Bennent). But the full truth is that she has given birth to a tentacled monster that she keeps in an apartment and with which she has a love affair. Mark, not knowing of this, has her followed, but both of the investigators are killed by Anna and fed to the monster. There are even doppelgangers around–seductive Helen (also Isabelle Adjani) tutors Mark's son. Whew! Earlier versions made for the U.S. market were cut to 80 minutes.
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The Serpent's Egg 1977  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe, Heinz Bennent, James Whitmore, Glynn Turman, Toni Berger, Christian Berkel, Paula Braend, Erna Bruenell
An American Jewish couple, Manuela (Liv Ullmann) and Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine), are trapeze artists caught in Berlin as Hitler rises to power. A rare Bergman misfire.
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Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness 1979  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh, Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Delventhal, Agnes Fink, Heinz Bennent, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Gunther Schutz, Ilse Bahrs
Executive secretary Maria (Jutta Lampe) and biology student Anna (Gudrun Gabriel) are sisters who share a complex dysfunctional relationship that ends when Anna commits suicide. Marcia then takes young typist Miriam (Jessica Fruh) under her wing, but will this relationship succeed where the one with Anna failed?
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| 1. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
2. The Last Metro (1980)
aka: Le Dernier Metro
3. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
4. Possession (1981)
5. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
6. Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (1979)
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