Balzac 1999  N/R, 210 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Balzac: A Life of Passion
Director: Josee Dayan
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Virna Lisi, Katja Riemann, Gert Voss, Katja Studt, Sergio Rubini, Marianne Denicourt, Gottfried John
Gerard Depardieu assumes the role of great French writer Honore de Balzac in this made-for-French-TV biography. The story covers Balzac's childhood under the influence of his critical mother (Jeanne Moreau), later romantic relationships (Fanny Ardant and Virna Lisi), and, finally, fame and fortune.
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Blood and Chocolate 2007   PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance / Fantasy
Director: Katja von Garnier
Cast: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere, Tom Harper, John(2) Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitalie Ursu, Bogdan Voda, Kata Dobo
Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) is a werewolf whose family was killed in Colorado, and now, 10 years later, she is living in Romania and has been promised in marriage to the werewolf pack leader, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez). When she meets American comic-book artist Aiden (Hugh Dancy), romance blooms, but many problems lie ahead as Vivian tries to cross over from the inhuman to the human world.
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Comedian Harmonists 1997  R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Harmonists
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Heinrich Schafmeister, Max Tidof, Kai Wiesinger, Meret Becker, Katja Riemann, Noemi Fischer, Dana Vavrova
This is the true story of a singing group that formed during 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The "Comedian Harmonists" gained fame and immense popularity that lasted until the Nazi regime learned that three of its members were Jewish and prohibited performances by the group.
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Rosenstrasse 2003  PG-13, 136 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Svea Lohde, Jurgen Vogel, Martin Feifel, Fedja van Huet, Carola Regnier, Plien van Bennekom, Jan Decleir, Thekla Reuten
Marriages involving Jewish men and non-Jewish women are the subject of this film in which newly widowed Ruth Weinstein (Jutta Lampe) travels to Germany to uncover facts behind the 1943 events when Aryan women tried to save their Jewish husbands by participating in a stand-off against Nazis at their detention camp.
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| 1. Balzac (1999)
aka: Balzac: A Life of Passion
2. Blood and Chocolate (2007)
3. Comedian Harmonists (1997)
aka: The Harmonists
4. Rosenstrasse (2003)
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