Movies: Y Sa Lo

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies....

He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an Am...

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Fel...

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was....

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building...

17-year-old Carolin, who doesn't think she can cope with the demands of her parents, boss and friends, attempts suicide - but fails....

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation....

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life....

An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrities from the worlds of culture and finance (and thus secure his own career) - an attempt that fails miserably....

Rosy Selavy arrives in New York, with her chessboard under her arm. occupying Duchamp's place at the Washington Square chess table (where he converses with the composer John Cage) later invites his suitors to a game. Rosy comes in contact with John C...

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live...

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