Angel of Mercy

A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Eran Riklis

Cast

Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yaël Abecassis

The story of Cupid, confronted with a modern Narcissus and living his worst day ever.

Runtime

7m

Director

Simon Bau, Clémentine Choplain

This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-year-old boy became a high-ranking member of the Hitler youth movement during World War II. The story is told in his own words. This film originally aired as part of the "America Undercover" series on HBO.

Runtime

31m

Director

Arthur Holch

Cast

Alfons Heck

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operati...

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Kurt Maetzig

Cast

Günther Simon, Raimund Schelcher, Ulrich Thein

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker fo...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Arthur Hiller

Cast

Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, George Marshall