Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kjell Grede
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt, Laszlo Soos
Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.
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The Second Awakening of Christa Klages 1978 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Muller-Westernhagen, Peter Schneider, Ulrich von Dobschutz, Erika Wackernagel, Fredrich Kaiser, Achim Krausz, Fritz Ley
When Christa (Tina Engel) cannot pay her day-care center's rent, she robs a bank, is suspected by the police, and attempts to launder the money. When that fails, matters go from bad to worse, and Christina, now a fugitive, escapes to Portugal–only for awhile. She returns to Germany where she is arrested, but her spirit remains undaunted.
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The Tin Drum 1979  R, 144 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, Andrea Ferreol, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner
Based on Gunter Grass' novel, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story is about a little boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the rise of Nazism and destruction of his world.
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| 1. Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
2. The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
3. The Tin Drum (1979)
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