The Noah's Ark Principle
1984 | 99 min | Timeless
With a budget of 1.2 million marks, Roland Emmerich's graduation film holds the record for the most expensive German student film of all time.
Matthias Fuchs
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Teststand 7
2001 | 110 min | Music, Dance, Theater
At the centre of the experimental film-collage TESTSTAND 7 is the V-2 rocket, the so-called “Wunderwaffe” (wonder weapon) developed by the Nazis.
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