Aimee & Jaguar 1999  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Max Farberbock
Cast: Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch, Elisabeth Degen, Detley Buck, Inge Keller, Kyra Mladeck
World War II's "The Battle of Berlin" provides the backdrop for this love story involving two women–Felice Schragenheim/Jaguar (Maria Schrader) and Lilly Wust/Aimee (Juliane Kohler)–who embark on a ruthless, as well as highly dangerous, affair that appears doomed from the start.
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Downfall 2004  R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Matthias Habich, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Mendl, Ulrich Noethen, Birgit Minichmayr, Andre Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Justus von Dohnanyi
Adolf Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) secretary Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) narrates this story of Hitler's last ten days, which he spent in a Berlin bunker before his suicide in 1945. Hitler's Reich is crumbling, and his mistress Eva Braun (Juliane Kohler) throws parties. Meanwhile, Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) and his wife Magda (Corinna Harfouch) contemplate murdering their six children and then killing themselves. Meanwhile, Hitler refuses to leave and, like the others in the bunker, will choose suicide rather than facing the Allies after Germany is defeated.
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Nowhere in Africa 2002 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Caroline Link
Cast: Juliane Kohler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Regine Zimmermann, Gabrielle Odinis, Sidede Onyulo, Karoline Eckertz, Lea Kurka, Gerd Heinz, Hildegard Schmahl
After leaving Germany in 1938, a Jewish family begins life anew in Kenya. Although physically safe from Hitler's Holocaust, the family must deal with the loss of friends and relatives in Germany as well as problems adapting to a new culture. Recipient of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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| 1. Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
2. Downfall (2004)
3. Nowhere in Africa (2002)
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