En Patagonie argentine, Andrès Rétamal est une légende vivante et on chante ses exploits. Champion de tous les rodeos depuis vingt ans, il fait sa dernière tournée accompagné de Gaby, son fils de quatre ans qui rêve de lui succéder... Un film de…
A zany Music Man for our times, Narrowsburg tells the engrossing story of Jocelyne Castellano, a French film producer, and Richard Castellano, a mafioso turned actor, who show up in a tiny New York river town and announce they are going to turn it into the “Sundance of the East.” Capitalizing…
This instalment of the Swiss Express series covers the busy but oft forgotten Central Switzerland – the industrial heartland with the Jura to the north and the Alps to the south. We range from Frenkendorf (almost suburban Basel) and Liestal in the north to the base of Lake Luzern in the south,…
"Seed Battles" Hidden deep inside a massive mountain in inhospitable Spitsbergen, Norway, is the most important vault in the world: the Global Seed Vault. It is 20 degrees below zero and the vault is able to withstand earthquakes, floods, missile attacks and nuclear disaster. The 'Doomsday…
Děčín is an industrial town of 50,000 with stations on both banks of the river. The left bank sees EuroCity trains between Dresden and Prague while the east bank carries the majority of freight trains. The two lines continue south to the largest city in the north of the Czech Republic. Ústí…
Ernst Beyeler had been dealing in art since 1947. Over the years he assembled an impressive collection, shown to the public at the Fondation Beyeler. Beyeler lets us in on the twists and turns of dealing with works by some of the greatest figures in modern art, and shows us pictures in his collection…
L’art n’est pas que muses, beautés et passion : c’est aussi un commerce. Dans le marché de l’art, un nom est devenu mythique : celui d’Ernst Beyeler. Ce marchand d’art et collectionneur compte parmi les personnalités majeures de la scène…
The tunnel building contract for the Gotthard was let in 1872. It was won by a highly experienced railway engineer Loisis Favre. The construction period was set at eight years In fact the tunnel took an extra two years to build and cost the lives of 147 men including that of Favre. Work on the much longer…
Rivha Bogomolnaja, die einzige jüdische Überlebende des litauischen Provinzdorfs Butdrimonas, besucht ihren Heimatort. Ein Film von Hermann Lorenz; 30 Min. 1993 Den Film auf DVD können Sie hier bestellen: http://kernfilm.de/index.php/de/Das-Tabu-der-Freiheit-DVD-deutsch-p5716034 Und…
ein Film von Jasco Viefhues DE 2019, 82 Min., deutsche OF (English subtitles available), FSK 12 Berlin, 1993. Der Fotograf und Künstler Jürgen Baldiga kämpft gegen das HI-Virus. Anfang der neunziger Jahren hat die Aids-Epidemie ihren Höhepunkt erreicht, auf den Niemand vorbereitet…
The Gotthard railway (Gotthardbahn) is the main route for passenger trains between Germany and Lombardy, and one of the two freight routes across the Alps in Switzerland. Trains heading for the alpine crossing run alongside the Zuger See, through Schwyz, Brunnen and down to Erstfeld where the mountain…
Hamburger Hauptbahnhof. In der Gourmetstation schlemmt man Exotisches aus aller Welt. Plötzlich stürmen HSV-Fans durch die Wandelhalle und schreien »Ausländer raus!« Ein Kurz-Dokumentarfilm von Leslie Franke und Hermann Lorenz; 12 Min. 1992 Den Film auf DVD können…
