"Director: Margarethe Von Trotta"

• Rosa Luxemburg | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £9.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Film by Margarethe Von Trotta one of the pioneers of German New Wave cinema and the first woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (1942) Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1986, Rosa Luxemburg is Margarethe von Trotta's remarkable biopic of one of the most fascinating figures in modern European history. Luxemburg (Barbara Sukowa), a dedicated Marxist and pacifist, is arrested in 1905 for her political activities. Determined to stick to her principles, she goes on to be repeatedly convicted and imprisoned for her protests and speeches. In 1915, growing disillusioned with the German Social Democrats when they endorse World War I, she founds the Sparticist League, later the Communist Party of Germany. Despite the many men in her life, Rosa remains focused on social justice.

• Hannah Arendt | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £11.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (56.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  During the year 1961 the influential German-Jewish philosopher HANNAH ARENDT reported for the New Yorker magazine on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.  Her articles introducing her now-famous concept of the Banality of Evil triggered off an unprecedented controversy.  Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries Margarethe von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive dramatic cinema.

• Rosa Luxemburg | Blu Ray | (18/02/2019) from £12.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

• The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's powerful adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel is a stinging commentary on state power individual freedom and media manipulation - as relevant today as on the day of its release in 1975.