Movies: New objectivity

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He ev...

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany....

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her....

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of ...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation....

Anna receives her first weekly wage: a ten-mark note with the no. K 13513. She gives it to her mother, who hides it in her Bible. Anna's brother Robert steals the note and uses it to buy a knife with which he becomes a murderer....

Nine part documentary series on the advantages of the Neues Bauen architectural movement, particularly in addressing housing shortages....