Adaptations of Literature and Biographies
Here you will find movies based on books of different genres. You can watch a gripping thriller like "The Dark Side of the Moon", a psychological drama about love and art such as "Agnes", or stories about self-discovery in moments of crisis like "Scherbenpark", "Die Habenichtse" or "Oben ist es still". There are war dramas like "Das große Heft" or family entertainment like "Das Pubertier".
Peter stamm:
Agnes
(>> Version with English subtitles)
Film about Heinrich von Kleist:
Amour Fou
martin suter:
Die dunkle Seite des Mondes/The dark side of the moon (with English subtitles)
Ágota Kristóf:
Das große Heft
Katharina Hacker:
Die Habenichtse
(>> Version with English subtitles)
Gerbrand bakker:
Oben ist es still
jan weiler:
Teenosaurus Rex - Das Pubertier (with English subtitles)
Alina Bronsky:
Scherbenpark
Erich Kästner: For Young and Adult Children
Erich Kästner is one of the most popular German-speaking children's authors of the 20th century. His books were the subject of a multitude of German and international films. Children in his books and subsequently in his movies fight against the injustice and hardship of the adult world. Although they are very young they find solutions where more mature people have already failed. Kästner also wrote about adults but his favourite protagonists were people who,up totheir old age, preserved their sense of childlike ingeniousness and maintained a curious view of the world.