Stories from the Kronen

Stories from the Kronen 1995

6.00

Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.

1995

The Vanishing Act of Einar

The Vanishing Act of Einar 2015

1

A road-movie about the psychological consequences of living with a serious illness, and Einar's counter-moves to stimulate what is still healthy.

2015

No More Everyday Life

No More Everyday Life 2022

1

Two soul mates meet, they are in love with life, the world and each other, but do not fit into Hitler's racial state. Why was the young refugee Ruth Maier killed, and why is she still remembered?

2022

Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt

Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt 2015

1

"Cause of Death Unknown" - Carola Neher (1900-1942) actress, singer and feminist. Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her. She practiced boxing with Marlene Dietrich. After Hitler seized power, thousands of German communists and anti-fascists fled to the Soviet Union, the "fatherland of the working people". The tragedy of German communism is that the vast majority of them perished or were lost during Stalin's "cleansing". Carola Neher is one of the fate figures of that time. In the 20s, she belonged to the narrow circle of Brecht actresses. The film accompanies her son Georg Becker in search of his mother's traces in the sinking Soviet Union.

2015

Apple Trees

Apple Trees 1992

1

When East Germany ceases to be separate from its western half, one would think that things would be better for the couple in this movie who have been plagued by sexual and political harassment of the most virulent kind, but , they are completely unprepared to cope with the swift changes that are transforming their familiar yet desperately unhappy world. In the story, Heinz is a laborer in the cooperative apple orchards of an East German village and has married his sweetheart Lena. She works to take care of the sickly wife of the co-op's manager and also must cope with the sexual attentions of the perfidious man. One day, after discovering this state of affairs, Heinz blows up and assaults his wife's harasser, which only serves to land him in jail. While in prison, the state secret police (the Stasi) get him to help them entrap the co-op manager, whom they believe is going to try to defect.

1992

Gorilla Bathes at Noon

Gorilla Bathes at Noon 1993

5.60

A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.

1993

Sorry Brothers, I Was the One

Sorry Brothers, I Was the One 2019

1

Jan Erik Vold has been best known as poet, activist and an Oslo-patriot in exile for many years, but who is he really?

2019

Hey Stranger

Hey Stranger 1994

5.00

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.

1994

Legenes Krig

Legenes Krig 2011

1

A journey into the life of Elling Kvamme. He was arrested and send to KZ Buchenwald, 22 years old. What did he experience there, as a young "Aryan" medicine-student? And why was it so important to put away what role the doctors had in the development of the Nazism and the idea of removing "useless" lives?

2011

Trikken til Auschwitz

Trikken til Auschwitz 2013

8.00

A documentary about Samuel ("Sammy") Steinmann who is today the sole survivor of the Norwegian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz during World War 2.

2013

The Art of the Impossible

The Art of the Impossible 2017

1

Director/actor Eugenio Barba returns to Oslo, where he started Odin Teatret, to Opole, where Jerzy Grotowsky's " theatre of the poor" developed a new physical play style, to avoid communism's censorship. And to Holstebro, where Odin Teatrets presence has greatly influenced the city's development.

2017