Name: The Birdcage
Director: Sieglinde Hamacher
Released: 1981

A cage is searching for a bird, but all its efforts fail. Without its help, a bird finds a way in. The cage closes its door and stands proudly on a pedestal, for it is now worthy of admiration.

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With great commitment and physical effort, a man crushes stones into gravel. With equal zeal, a woman shapes them into stones. The man then crushes the stones again with diligent effort...

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The Wolf in the Sheep's Clothing

Der Schafswolf

A beetle is fleeing from a bird. No hiding place is safe from its pursuer. So it crawls into a dark crevice that the bird&#x27;s beak can&#x27;t reach. The beetle laughs at the bird. It hasn&#x27;t yet realized that it&#x27;s sitting in the space between the earth and the sole of a man&#x27;s shoe.

A Peaceful Day

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The Solution

Die Lösung

A small man sits on a train station bench. A bulky, initially polite man joins him, reads his newspaper, eats his travel provisions on the train, follows him, harasses him on the bus, in the taxi, and in his house, making himself at home. When the harassed man calls the police, the patrol arrests him, and the ruffian triumphs. The little man is released. Now helplessly exposed to the intruder&#x27;s harassment, he is thrown out.

Occupation

Okkupation

In a raindrop that falls from a leaf and seeps into the earth, beautiful and cruel, happy and sad things happen and interpenetrate.

Kontraste

Kafka sees a waitress nibbling from a pot, which she is about to serve. In violent indignation, he complains. His complaint is upheld, and the girl is sentenced to be stoned. Kafka protests, saying he hadn&#x27;t meant to trigger this, but stones are thrown at the waitress all the more vigorously. Kafka, powerless against the machinery that has been set in motion, takes his own life. Meanwhile, the girl is restored to health and sent back to serve with the pot.

Kafka's Dream

Kafkas Traum

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Corynne Charbit

Michel Robin

André Valardy

Michel Fortin

Robert Dalban

Gérard Depardieu

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Ciné regards

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La Chèvre

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french - SME

Français

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Michel Piccoli

Isabelle Huppert

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László Szabó

Hanna Schygulla

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Nouvelle Vague

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Margarita Lozano

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Enrica Maria Modugno

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Norma Martelli

Sabina Vannucchi

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Giuseppe Furia

Paolo Hendel

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La Notte di San Lorenzo

English

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Klaus Wennemann

Hubertus Bengsch

Martin Semmelrogge

Bernd Tauber

Erwin Leder

Martin May

Heinz Hoenig

Claude-Oliver Rudolph

Jan Fedder

Ralf Richter

Oliver Stritzel

Rita Cadillac

Joachim Bernhard

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The Boat

Das Boot

German

VO - HD - WDR

Aurore Clément

Michèle Blondeel

Angelo Abazoglou

Frank Aendenboom

Natalia Akerman

Véronique Alain

Paul Allio

Jacques Baudoin

François Beukelaers

Gabrielle Claes

Philippe Bombled

Ignacio Carranza

Christiane Cohendy

Nicole Colchat

Jan Decleir

Dirk De Batist

Edith De Barcy

Laurent De Buyl

Jan Decorte

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A Whole night

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dutch

FR - HD - CINEMATEK

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Rosel Zech

Hilmar Thate

Cornelia Froboess

Annemarie Düringer

Doris Schade

Erik Schumann

Johanna Hofer

Rudolf Platte

Günther Kaufmann

Sonja Neudorfer

Peter Berling

Lilo Pempeit

Armin Mueller-Stahl

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New German Cinema 1970-1980

Veronika Voss

Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

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Nanni Moretti

Piera Degli Esposti

Laura Morante

Alessandro Haber

Gigio Morra

Nicola Di Pinto

Claudio Spadaro

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Olivier Assayas

Michele is a frustrated director. His movies have never been well received by public and critics, and he still lives with his mother, with whom he is constantly in conflict. He decides then to base his next work on the difficult relationship between Sigmund Freud and his own mother. While trying to find the resources to produce the movie, he continues to dream about Silvia, a young student he teaches philosophy to in the dream.&nbsp;

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Italian

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Julie Andrews

James Garner

Robert Preston

Lesley Ann Warren

John Rhys-davies

Alex Karras

Sherloque Tanney

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Christophe Gans

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VF+VOST - HD

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Étienne Chicot

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Catherine Deneuve à propos du film et d'André Téchiné sur le tournage du film

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Entretien avec Patrick Dewaere lors du Festival de Cannes 1979

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