Film archive
The Golden Glove Der goldene Handschuh
Fatih Akin / Germany / 2019 / 115 min / German, Greek
From acclaimed filmmaker Fatih Akin (Head-On, The Edge of Heaven, In The Fade) comes a gruesome tale of notorious German serial killer Fritz Honka who haunted Hamburg’s red light
district in the 1970s.
The Captain Der Hauptmann
Robert Schwentke / Germany, Poland, France / 2017 / 118 min / German
A wartime drama based on true events, this grotesque and stylised feature, peppered with dark humour forms an allegory of the corruptive force of strength, in which a deserter’s discovery of a simple uniform brings with it a monstrous influence.
Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders / Germany / 1987 / 128 min / Hebrew, Japanese, German, Spanish, Turkish, English, French
Wim Wenders’s hypnotic city symphony is a melancholic elegy to a still divided Berlin, and marked the director’s homecoming as his first German film following eight years in America.