Essential World Cinema - Germany Collection - 3-DVD Set ( Fitzcarraldo / Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) / Europa Europa )

Essential World Cinema - Germany Collection - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Fitzcarraldo / Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) / Europa Europa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
399 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1929 - 1990 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Peru ( Latin America, Mexico )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Agnieszka Holland

Written By:
Werner Herzog
Frank Wedekind
Ladislaus Vajda
Agnieszka Holland
Paul Hengge

Actors:
Klaus Kinski ..... Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
Claudia Cardinale ..... Molly
José Lewgoy ..... Don Aquilino
Miguel Ángel Fuentes ..... Cholo
Paul Hittscher ..... Captain (Orinoco Paul)
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez ..... Huerequeque (The Cook)
Grande Otelo ..... Station master
Peter Berling ..... Opera Manager
David Pérez Espinosa ..... Chief of Campa Indians
Milton Nascimento ..... Blackman At Opera House
Ruy Polanah ..... Rubber Baron
Salvador Godínez ..... Old Missionary
Dieter Milz ..... Young Missionary
William Rose ..... Notary
Leoncio Bueno
Louise Brooks ..... Lulu
Fritz Kortner ..... Dr. Ludwig Schön
Francis Lederer ..... Alwa Schön
Carl Goetz ..... Schigolch
Krafft-Raschig ..... Rodrigo Quast
Alice Roberts ..... Gräfin Geschwitz - Countess Anna Geschwitz
Daisy D'Ora ..... Charlotte Marie Adelaide v. Zarnikow - braut Dr. Schöns - Dr. Schön's Bride
Gustav Diessl ..... Jack the Ripper
Michael von Newlinsky ..... Marquis Casti-Piani
Sig Arno ..... Der inspizient - the instructor
Marco Hofschneider ..... Salomon 'Solly' 'Salek' Perel / Josef 'Jupp' Peters
André Wilms ..... Soldier Robert Kellerman
Ashley Wanninger ..... Gerd
Klaus Abramowsky ..... Salomon's Father
Michèle Gleizer ..... Salomon's Mother
Delphine Forest ..... Inna Moyseyevna
René Hofschneider ..... Isaak Perel - Salomon's brother
Julie Delpy ..... Leni
Hanns Zischler ..... Captain von Lerenau Hauptmann.
Martin Maria Blau ..... Ulmayer
Bernhard Howe ..... Feldwebel
Klaus Kowatsch ..... Schulz
Holger Kunkel ..... Kramer
Halina Labonarska ..... Leni's Mother
Andrzej Mastalerz ..... Zenek Dracz

Synopsis:

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.

Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually made a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
1896. A penniless entrepreneur, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (called Fitzcarraldo by the Indians) living in Iquitos, a shanty town on the Amazon thousands of miles from anywhere, has a dream: to bring opera to the town, and especially Caruso, who has just given a performance in the rubber-boom city of Manaus. To get Caruso, he has to build an opera house, which involves his undertaking a scheme to exploit a hitherto inaccessible area of rubber trees, which lies beyond rapids never before navigated.

Pandora's Box (1929)
The dancer and prostitute Lulu is the mistress of the newspaper owner Dr. Ludwig Schön and lives in an apartment paid for by him. When her former "protector" Schigolch visits Lulu, he brings the opportunist agent Rodrigo Quast that invites Lulu to dance in a play. Dr. Schön tells Lulu that he will marry the aristocratic Charlotte Marie Adelaide v. Zarnikow and mesmerizing Lulu forces him to marry her. However, in the wedding party, Dr. Schön finds Lulu partying with Schigolch and Rodrigo Quast in their bedroom and he gets his pistol and forces Lulu to shoot him. Lulu is arrested and almost six months later, she goes to the tribunal for trial. Despite the testimony of Dr. Schön's son Alwa Schön and his friend Countess Anna Geschwitz, Lulu is sentenced to five years in prison in a prejudicial verdict. But her friends cause a bedlam in court and Lulu flees. Alwa and Lulu decide to travel to Paris, but in the train, they are convinced to follow the crook Marquis Casti-Piani in the beginning of Lulu's downfall.

Europa Europa (1990)
Europa Europa tells the story of Solomon Perel, a Jewish boy who survives World War II by posing as a Aryan German. Perel joins the German Army and is eventually accepted into the Hitler Youth. At the end of World War II, he is reunited with his family.

Experience the finest in German cinema with this must-own collection of landmark German films on DVD. Including Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, and the silent classic Pandora's Box, this is the quintessential German film collection. Fitzcarraldo (1982) The story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose tries to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America. In one of the greatest scenes of modern cinema, he hauls a 300 ton steamship over a mountain to achieve his dream. Winner, Best Director (Werner Herzog), Cannes Film Festival (1982). - in award wreaths Europa Europa (1990) Based on the true story of a young Polish-German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Hitler Youth, Europa Europa is a heartbreaking tale a boy's chameleon-like ability to survive the horrors of WW2. Starring Julie Delpy (The Three Colours Trilogy) and Marco Hofschneider (Luther). Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Copying Beethoven). Winner, Golden Globe, Best Foreign Language Film (1992) - in award wreaths Pandora's Box (1929) The silent classic that made Louise Brooks an icon of the jazz age. Beyond the iconic black bob and porcelain skin, Brooks here radiates unparalleled sexuality, delivering one of the most captivating and erotically charged performances in cinema history. Includes a special bonus 60 min documentary, "Looking For Lulu", narrated by Shirley MacLaine.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 30 November, 2013.