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María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Vendetta : A high profile attorney and a prominent tax adviser are murdered within days of each other, and Brunetti's investigation leads to Senora Ceroni, and a human-trafficking syndicate within the cream of Venetian society.
The anonymous Venetian : The investigation of a murdered bank executive, whose body is found clad in women's attire, leads Brunetti to the subculture of transvestites and male prostitutes, among whom are many characters that...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lisa, once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes. She lives with her family in Switzerland, but her heart remains in Berlin, beating in time with that of her twin brother Sven, the famous theatre actor. Since Sven has been suffering from an aggressive type of leukaemia, the relationship between them has become even closer. Lisa does not want to accept this blow of fate, she does everything in her power to bring Sven back on stage. For her soulmate...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank accounts?--Container.
Uniform justice. Brunetti is deeply affected...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (759 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European televisions shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city's nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath, a young cop from Cologne, is transferred...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2004, 2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.
Acqua alta : First a museum director and an antiquities dealer are murdered. Then...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2006, 2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 179 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
A sea of troubles. When the murder of two fishermen...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Germany 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann begins to examine the case of recently identified teacher who was a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 358
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
10) Vitus
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (603 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The vaultingly ambitious, award-winning German series Babylon Berlin is a dizzyingly thrilling crime drama. Season 3 opens in the fall of 1929 in Berlin, during the tumultuous weeks before Black Friday?́?s stock market crash. Inspector Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter are assigned to investigate the death of an actress, only to realize that the film industry is as rotten as the underworld.
Publisher
Netflix
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque." --
13) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
14) Searching Eva
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman searches for her identity while turning herself into a spectacle on social media.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Episodes include: Episode 17: The Girl Of His Dreams - The murder of a trucking entrepreneur strikes close to home when Brunetti learns that the victim was involved in shady deals with a friend's husband. Episode 18: Looks Are Deceiving - A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian canal. Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile.
16) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the story of a young girl from the Swiss Alps whose life takes a dramatic turn when she must go to live in the city, leaving behind the people and the mountains she loves, with annotations providing background information on the history, geography, social customs, and the arts of the era.
17) Paradise Hope
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie has imagined her paradise differently.
18) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], p2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Episode 15: Through A Glass Darkly - The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glassmaking. Episode 16: Suffer The Little Children - When an illegal Albanian immigrant gives birth, she's told that her baby has died and she should ask no further questions.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Willful behavior: A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. Blood from a stone: Fake designer sunglasses and handbags - reason enough for murder? As Commissario Brunetti investigates what seems to be a gangland execution among rival immigrant African peddlers of knockoff luxury goods, he discovers dozens of raw diamonds in the apartment of an informant.
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