https://shotonwhat.com/region/germany The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:56 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:27:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-resurrections-2021 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:21:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-resurrections-2021
Director: Lana Wachowski
Cinematographer: Daniele Massaccesi, John Toll
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:25:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:21:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/octopussy-1983 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:16:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/octopussy-1983
Director: John Glen
Cinematographer: Alan Hume
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/2030-2022 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:29:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/2030-2022
Director: Tim Eickhoff
Cinematographer: Tim Grau
2030. In a new world. Pregnancies are forbidden. Emily must make a life changing decision. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972 Fri, 24 May 2024 17:22:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972
Director: Bob Fosse
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/suspiria-2-2018 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:48:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/suspiria-2-2018
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-happy-prince-2018 Tue, 14 May 2024 16:55:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-happy-prince-2018
Director: Rupert Everett
Cinematographer: John Conroy
The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-teachers-lounge-2023 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:42:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-teachers-lounge-2023
Director: Ilker Çatak
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fay-grim-2006 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:52:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fay-grim-2006
Director: Hal Hartley
Cinematographer: Sarah Cawley
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is informatio... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tar-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:49:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tar-2022
Director: Todd Field
Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-3-2022 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:08:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-3-2022
Director: Edward Berger
Cinematographer: James Friend
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/amelie-2001 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:07:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/amelie-2001
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:27:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014
Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:03:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sloborn-2020 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:12:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sloborn-2020
Director: Christian Alvart, Adolfo J. Kolmerer
Cinematographer: Christian Alvart, Christian Huck
After a pandemic rolled through the island of Sløborn, the survivors have to deal with the consequences ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mr-nobody-2009 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:10:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mr-nobody-2009
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-queens-gambit-2020 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:21:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-queens-gambit-2020
Director: Scott Frank
Cinematographer: Steven Meizler
Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-dream-of-warsaw-2014 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:45:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-dream-of-warsaw-2014
Director: Krzysztof Magowski
Cinematographer: Maciej Magowski
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gipsy-queen-2019 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:42:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gipsy-queen-2019
Director: Hüseyin Tabak
Cinematographer: Lukas Gnaiger
Ali, a courageous woman and single mother of two kids, works with the trainer and owner of a rundown box club in order to provide for her family. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/homeland-2011 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:45:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/homeland-2011
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, Michael Cuesta, Daniel Attias, Alex Graves, Keith Gordon, Tucker Gates, Clark Johnson, Seith Mann, Guy Ferland, Michael Offer, Michael Klick, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Carl Franklin, Charlotte Sieling, Brad Turner, John Dahl, Lodge Kerrigan, Jeremy Podeswa, David Semel, Daniel Minahan, David Nutter, Jeffrey Reiner, John David Coles, Nelson McCormick
Cinematographer: David Klein, Nelson Cragg, Giorgio Scali, Chris Manley
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hearst-castle-building-the-dream-1996 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:28:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hearst-castle-building-the-dream-1996
Director: Bruce Neibaur
Cinematographer: Matthew Williams
A story of the inspiration behind, construction and history of Hearst Castle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bohemian-rhapsody-2018 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 21:32:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bohemian-rhapsody-2018
Director: Bryan Singer
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/black-wedding-2015 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:24:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-wedding-2015
Director: Thomas Bohn
Cinematographer: Frank Glencairn
Black Wedding is a pitch-dark comedy on marriage. Not a single word is spoken, but murder is ubiquitous. It's the uproarious story of a husband and wife that artfully tries to kill each ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968
Director: Ken Hughes
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/atomic-blonde-2017 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:23:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/atomic-blonde-2017
Director: David Leitch
Cinematographer: Jonathan Sela
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-radicalization-of-jeff-boyd-2017 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:52:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-radicalization-of-jeff-boyd-2017
Director: Uwe Schwarzwalder
Cinematographer: Brian Pinkus, Uwe Schwarzwalder
A businessman and a young woman find each other and discuss a dangerous plan which soon becomes reality. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dogs-of-berlin-2018 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:26:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dogs-of-berlin-2018
Director: Christian Alvart
Cinematographer: Christoph Krauss, Frank Lamm
A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/karakter-1997 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:44:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/karakter-1997
Director: Mike van Diem
Cinematographer: Rogier Stoffers
Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/der-staat-gegen-fritz-bauer-2015 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:04:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/der-staat-gegen-fritz-bauer-2015
Director: Lars Kraume
Cinematographer: Jens Harant
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/morris-from-america-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:04:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/morris-from-america-2016
Director: Chad Hartigan
Cinematographer: Sean McElwee
The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jason-bourne-2016 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:07:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jason-bourne-2016
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
The CIA's most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-silence-1996 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:29:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beyond-silence-1996
Director: Caroline Link
Cinematographer: Gernot Roll
Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/clouds-of-sils-maria-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:23:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/clouds-of-sils-maria-2014
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/eddie-the-eagle-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:20:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/eddie-the-eagle-2016
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cinematographer: George Richmond
The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/der-fan-1982 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:58:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/der-fan-1982
Director: Eckhart Schmidt
Cinematographer: Bernd Heinl
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-civil-war-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:55:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/captain-america-civil-war-2016
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sophie-scholl-the-final-days-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:49:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sophie-scholl-the-final-days-2005
Director: Marc Rothemund
Cinematographer: Martin Langer
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/operation-homecoming-writing-the-wartime-experience-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:37:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/operation-homecoming-writing-the-wartime-experience-2007
Director: Richard Robbins
Cinematographer: Jason Ellson
A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/im-off-then-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:27:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/im-off-then-2015
Director: Julia von Heinz
Cinematographer: Felix Poplawsky
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spielzeugland-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:19:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spielzeugland-2007
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank
Cinematographer: Christoph Cico Nicolaisen
A German mother lies to her son about where the Nazis are sending their Jewish neighbors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/krolik-po-berlinsku-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/krolik-po-berlinsku-2009
Director: Bartosz Konopka
Cinematographer: Piotr Rosolowski
The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/you-cant-take-it-with-you-1938 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:07:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/you-cant-take-it-with-you-1938
Director: Frank Capra
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bridge-of-spies-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:47:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bridge-of-spies-2015
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-rote-jacke-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:27:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-rote-jacke-2002
Director: Florian Baxmeyer
Cinematographer: Marcus Kanter
A German father's soccer-playing son is hit by a car and dies. The father donates the boy's red jacket to charity, where it ends up in war-torn Sarajevo. The boy's parents are killed, and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/prisoner-of-paradise-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:58:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/prisoner-of-paradise-2002
Director: Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Cinematographer: Michael Hammon
Documentary about Holocaust victim Kurt Gerron. ]]>