LOCARNO: Die Filme im CONCORDO INTERNAZIONALE

Um jovem alemão enfrenta os problemas de uma vida difícil em Berlim pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial.

The life of the worker Hans Behnke and his family from 1925 to 1945 in Berlin. Hans ultimately does join the Nazi party, but still shows signs of disagreement with their ideology.

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer

A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation.

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change. The real Kaspar Hauser grew up in prison without light, social contacts and education for more than ten years. As teenager he came to public again. First he had to learn a language and other basic skills. Before Kaspar Hauser, meanwhile well educated, found out his real idendity, he was killed.

Três amigos são pegos em uma vida de grandes crimes.

Herbert is a German embassy official in Georgia. He lives an inane life until he meets twelve-year-old girl Sashka who makes him laugh and feel responsibility. Soon he is in trouble because he is suspected of pedophilia, meets corrupt policemen, burglars and violent people.

Dima Nikitin é um encanador comum e honesto que de repente decide enfrentar o sistema corrupto da política local para salvar a vida de 800 habitantes de um antigo dormitório que está prestes a desabar.

Nick Bianco é apanhado durante um assalto fracassado a uma joalharia. A acusação oferece-lhe uma sentença mais branda se ele entregar os seus cúmplices, mas não o faz. Três anos após a sentença, um acontecimento o faz mudar de ideia.

A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.

Na Itália da pós-guerra a bicicleta de um homem da classe trabalhadora é roubada. Ele e o filho partiram para encontrá-la.

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.

Female contract killer Tez is hired by the legendary gangster Charles Mahr to take revenge for the murder of one of his couriers.

Urs is a single doctor who looks after his alcoholic brother Falk. Trying to prevent his daughter Jette from getting stuck in their little province, he persuades her to volunteer in South America.

Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. But when she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed to an uncertain future. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives but, in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to discard her body, her social relationships and her own feelings.

Berlin shortly after World War II. An American lawyer is looking for the missing heir to a large fortune in the bombed-out city. He accidentally gets in the way of an unscrupulous counterfeiting gang and has to fear for his life.

A documentary on Brazil in times of social changes, using avant-garde visuals, editing and sounds.

A tragedy set in post-war Germany. A man is unable to find a job. In his desperation, he plans to rob a bank together with a friend (Hardy Kruger as Klaus) who works in a petrol station and feels tempted by the possibility of getting rich. Two different motivations drive these two good men into an immoral situation.

Um caminhoneiro da Alemanha Ocidental que vende cascalho preto ilegalmente se reencontra com uma antiga amante, agora casada com um americano.

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert's ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.

Featuring one of the era's most beloved male idols, Hans Albers, as the doctor losing control of his dark side, is Viktor Turzanskij's rarely-screened Jekyll-and-Hyde version Vom Teufel gejagt. For added depth and relevance, a colleague who, years before, had assumed the doctor's guilt when an experiment went badly returns to continue their earlier research-besides, his name is tarnished anyway, where else could he go? It's difficult to not see this very elegantly dispassionate piece (a curious predecessor to the soon rising Arztfilm-wave) as an attempt to discuss its star's and auteur's involvement with the Nazi-era film industry: Albers starred in Herbert Selpin's world-weary anti-British epopee Carl Peters (1941), and Turzanskij directed (and co-wrote) the edgy anti-Polish, anti-labor drama Feinde (1940).