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[email protected] www.ngks.org NGKS Programm für 2016 / NGKS Program for 2016 Note: All films are ‘Print courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive’; program is subject to change. 22 February Der Hauptmann von Köpenick / The Captain from Köpenick Classic comedy directed by Helmut Käutner with Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth (Germany 1956, 93 min) A cobbler looses his identity card, which is required to get work, and his replacement appeal is dismissed by snobbish officials because he has served time in prison. After stealing a secondhand officer's uniform and using his familiarity with command from prison, he plays upon the public fascination for rank and the military to get his card… Trailer: https://youtu.be/FY1ttK6s_VE 21 March Mahler auf der Couch / Mahler on the couch Biographical Drama directed by Felix & Percy Adlon, with Johannes Silberschneider, Barbara Romaner, Karl Markovics (Germany, 2010, 98 min) Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud (www.imdb.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/jdR7e106s88 25 April Sputnik / Mission: Sputnik Family movie directed by Markus Dietrich & Pavel Strnad, with Flora Thiemann, Finn Fiebig, Luca Johannsen (Germany 2013, 90 min) The day the Berlin Wall came down, a 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back to East Germany but instead, as they witness on TV, end up beaming everyone in their town into West Germany! They have to race against time to undo the experiment before nasty border guards open fire (www.imdb.com).