Newcastle German Kino Society Post Box 105 Newcastle 2300 [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). Trailer: https://youtu.be/BwuFw1mbEGg 23 May Blutgletscher / Blood Glacier Horror movie directed by Marvin Kren with Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic (Germany 2013, 98 mins) Scientists discover that a red liquid leaking from a nearby glacier contains organisms that turn living hosts into deadly mutants… (www.imdb.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/zvaLpJK1L_0 27 June Die Unsichtbare / Cracks in the shell Drama directed by Christian Schwochow with Stine Fischer Christensen, Ulrich Noetthen, Dagmar Manzel (German 2012, 118 min) After landing the lead role in a play, a drama student adopts the aggressive traits of her character (www.google.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/IbgYWcotVzQ Screenings are held at The Royal Exchange Theatre, 32-34 Bolton St, Newcastle @ 7pm for 7.30pm film start. Newcastle German Kino Society Post Box 105 Newcastle 2300 [email protected] www.ngks.org 25 July More than Honey Documentary by Markus Imhoof, with Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menze, John Miller (Germany 2012, 95 min) An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia (www.imdb.com). Trailer:: https://youtu.be/Wh_IRrBeu-0 22 August Die Nordwand / North Face Historical Drama directed by Pilipp Stölzl, with Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek (Germany 2008, 126 min) Based on a true story, North Face is a suspenseful adventure film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation's Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif - the Eiger - two reluctant German climbers begin their daring ascent (www.imdb.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/Of9fd6smarA 26 September Die andere Heimat / Home from Home Historical Drama directed by Edgar Reitz, with Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt (Germany 2013, 231 min) Set in the mid-nineteenth century, this latest installment in the decades-spanning Heimat series chronicles the quests of two Hunsrück families to escape poverty and famine by forging a new life in Brazil (www.youtube.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/o5AFlhyrylM 24 October Eltern / Parents Comedy directed by Robert Thalheim with Charly Hübner and Christiane Paul (Germany 201, 90 min) A married couple with two children discover the difficulties of balancing family and careers (www.google.com). Things escalate when an au-pair is hired so stay-at-home dad can return to work... Trailer: https://youtu.be/vW9MhalIcOc 28 November Das Weisse Band / The White Ribbon Mystery Drama directed by Michael Heneke with Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch (USA 2010, 144 min) Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible? (www.imdb.com). Trailer: https://youtu.be/2aaapMYGBJs Screenings are held at The Royal Exchange Theatre, 32-34 Bolton St, Newcastle @ 7pm for 7.30pm film start. .