In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the C...
synopsisMaximilian is a greedy, cold and unscrupulous doctor but at the same time a charming and risk-loving genius. His son Ernst on the other hand, continually strives to give his best but always seems to be at the losing end. He is forced into marriage by Vally, a streetwise and unscrupulous former maid of his parents’, who is carrying his child. Ernst’s true love, the beaut...
"Ula Stckl's Erika's Passions is a very odd but engaging fictional hour from Germany in which two former flatmates meet again and fall, protesting, in and out of old habits. The film lives up to its blurb with rare thoroughness: 'as they talk, the patterns of their previous relationships become clear - the assumptions that each made about the other, the roles that each forced ...