Here’s our regular listing of films being shown in English and other original foreign languages, and sometimes German with foreign partnerships, at Leipzig cinemas for this movie week. Although not dubbed, the movies often come with German or even English subtitles, so you might still be able to access the film if you don’t know the language being spoken.
Our highlights this week are the OmU opening of the new James Bond movie, Spectre, and separately, the 6th edition of the “Latin American Days” movie fest, with movies playing in the original Portuguese and Spanish with German subtitles at Schaubühne Lindenfels this movie week. I might be found there at some point!
What the labels mean: OmU – Original with German subtitles; OmeU – Original with English subtitles; OF – Original film; OV – Original version; Im Original – In the original and often 3D.
“Latin American” Days Fest, Schaubühne Lindenfels:
- El botón de nácar [Der Perlmuttknopf] – Documentary | Chile, France, Spain 2014 | Director: Patricio Guzmán | Spanish, OmU
Tue 10.11 @ 19:30
“The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Cuatro Lunas [Four Moons] – Drama, romance, queer | Mexico 2014 | Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde | Spanish, OmU
Wed 11.11 @ 19:30
“Four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Hoje eu Quero Voltar Sozinho [Heute gehe ich allein nach Hause] – Drama, coming-of-age, queer | Brazil 2014 | Director: Daniel Ribeiro | Portuguese, OmU
Wed 11.11 @ 22:00
“Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.” MORE FROM IMDB
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Other features opening this week:
- Spectre (James Bond) – Action, adventure, thriller | US, UK 2015 | Director: Sam Mendes | English
(OmU)
Thu 05.11, Fri 06.11, Sat 07.11, Tue 10.11, Wed 11.11 @ 21:00
Sun 08.11, Mon 09.11 @ 18:00
(OF)
Sun 08.11, Mon 09.11 @ 21:00
(OF)
Fri 06.11 @ 16:00
Sun 08.11 @ 19:00, 22:30
Wed 11.11 @ 22:35
(OF)
Sat 07.11 @ 19:30
(OF)
Mon 09.11 @ 20:00
(OmU)
Mon 09.11 @ 20:00
“A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.” With Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz. MORE FROM IMDB
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- Le dernier des injustes [Der Letzte der Ungerechten] – Documentary | France, Austria 2014 | Director: Claude Lanzmann | German/French/English, OmU
Tue 10.11 @ 20:00 – FREE ENTRY
“A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the “model ghetto”, designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn’t even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the “Final Solution” like never before.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Miasto 44 [Warschauer Aufstand] – History, drama, romance | Poland 2014 | Director: Jan Komasa | Polish, OmU
Wed 11.11 @ 20:00 – FREE ENTRY
“A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Sarancha – Crime, drama, thriller | Russia 2014 | Director: Egor Baranov | Russian, OF
Sun 08.11 @ 20:00
“First erotic thriller In Russia. Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things get messy when their passion oversteps all the limits. Soon contemporary Romeo and Juliet get confused about what is really important turning into consuming ‘Locust’: overwhelming love they have leads them to commit brutal murders.” MORE FROM IMDB
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One day only, this Wednesday:
- Tristia – Eine Schwarzmeer-Odyssee – Documentary | Germany 2014 | Director: Stanislaw Mucha | Russian/ Ukrainian/Turkish/Bulgarian/Romanian, OmU
Wed 04.11 @ 19:30
“A remarkable travelogue from a trip around the Black Sea: along its shores, lined by the boundaries of six states, and through bizarre seaside resorts. More than the tourist industry or political problems, the film focuses on solitary statues, decaying architectural monuments, and the personal stories of the local people. From each stop on their journey, the filmmakers send a series of stylized video postcards with the playfulness of staged scenes, set against the backdrop of the sea. In this cinematic answer to Ovid’s Black Sea lamentations, that ancient text receives new qualities that tell us about a place that is accursedly beautiful but also beautifully cursed.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared – Documentary, music | Director: Stefan Schwietert | Germany, Switzerland, UK 2015 | English OmU
Wed 04.11 @ 22:00
“Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd’s, iPod’s, instruments?” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Life – Biography, Drama | Canada, Germany, Australia, USA 2015 | Director: Anton Corbijn | English, OmU
Wed 04.11 @ 20:00
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Features continuing this movie week:
- Body – Drama | Poland 2015 | Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Polish, OmU
Wed 04.11, Thu 05.11, Fri 06.11, Sat 07.11, Sun 08.11 @ 19:00
Tue 10.11 @ 22:00
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she’s still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who’s dealing with her own loss in an unusual way. MORE FROM IMDB
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- Hockney – Documentary, biography | Britain, USA 2014 | Director: Randall Wright | English, OmU
Wed 04.11, Thu 05.11 @ 19:00
Sun 08.11 @ 19:30
“‘Hockney’ is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of a long life… His is a long-term one-man campaign against the pessimism of the world, mastering new media – whether acrylic paint or iPad digits – in the search for a picture adequate to his sense of what it is to be alive.” MORE FROM BBC
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- Macbeth – Drama | UK, France, USA 2015 | Director: Justin Kurzel | English, OmU
Wed 04.11 @ 21:00
Sun 08.11, Mon 09.11 @ 20:40
Mon 09.11 @ 20:00
Yes, it’s the Shakespeare story; but might be fresh somehow and certainly visually appealing: “Macbeth, a Thane of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.” With Marion Cotillard. MORE FROM IMDB
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- Malala – Documentary, biography, politics | USA 2015 | Director: Davis Guggenheim | English, OmU
Sun 08.11 @ 17:30
Tue 10.11 @ 19:00
“A look at the events leading up to the Talibans’ attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls’ education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- Turbo Kid – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Canada, New Zealand 2015 | Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | English, OmU
Thu 05.11, Wed 11.11 @ 21:00
“In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a comic book fan dons the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.” MORE FROM IMDB
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- The Look of Silence – Documentary, politics | Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, Germany, Britain, USA 2014 | Director: Joshua Oppenheimer | Indonesian, OmU
Thu 05.11, Fri 06.11, Sat 07.11, Tue 10.11, Wed 11.11 @ 22:00
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