Many German films in theaters this week and an English-language documentary about The Doors.
THE DOORS. PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
Documentary
U.S. 2011
Language: Eng with Rus subtitles
Directed by Tom DiCillo
Oct. 6–19, 4:25 p.m., Zhovten cinema
Narrated by Johnny Depp, this biopic is a tribute to the cult American rock band, The Doors. Natural “riders of the storm,” as their song goes, these four musicians kicked onto the music scene in the 60’s, rolled victoriously into the 70’s and are still buzzing in every rock fan’s music collection.
Award-winning director and screenwriter Tom DiCillo used the unseen before footage to create the first ever feature documentary about the band. It follows The Doors from the corridors of UCLA’s film school where keyboardist Ray Manzarec and lead singer Jim Morrison first met to Morrison’s death in 1971.
RUN IF YOU CAN
Drama
Germany 2010
Language: German with Ukr subtitles
Directed by Dietrich Bruggeman
Sat, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m., Kyiv cinema
Ben spends his days in a wheelchair watching Annika, a music student, cycle past his balcony every day until one lucky accident with Ben’s helper, Christian, brings them together. No one gets hurt physically but all three are about to get damaged psychologically.
Annika fancies both men, which unravels the story of love, pain and friendship.
POLL
Drama
Germany 2010
Language: German with Ukr subtitles
Directed by Chris Kraus
Sun, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m., Kyiv cinema
On the eve of World War I, teenager Oda leaves Berlin to reunite with her family in their seaside mansion in the Baltics. Surrounded by Russians, Germans and Estonians, she doesn’t draw much difference between nationalities unlike her father, a scientist with an obsession for weird experiments.
Her quick intelligence and lust for humanity play an upper hand over parental obligation when she finds a wounded Estonian anarchist and decides to hide him.
THREE
Drama/Comedy
Germany 2010
Language: German with Ukr subtitles
Directed by Tom Tykwer
Mon, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m., Kyiv cinema
Love triangles provide some of the most popular plots in modern cinema. In German “Three,” however, the three-sided love affair is as avant-garde as it can probably get. Hanna and Simon have been married for far too long and need a little pinch.
Independently from each other, they meet Adam and somehow both fall in love with him. Then, Hanna gets pregnant, so it’s time to work out who the daddy is and where to go from here.
GOETHE!
Historical Melodrama
Germany 2010
Language: German with Ukr subtitles
Directed by Philipp Stolzl
Tue, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m., Kyiv cinema
Before he penned his intricately philosophical “Faust,” Johann Goethe has been a rather poor law student who preferred following the laws of nature to those invented by humans.
Fed up with his son’s poetic escapades, Goethe’s father arranged a job of a court clerk for him. But the routine of a court room turned out not so bad when the young poet met charming Lotte. His curly muse, however, was betrothed to another man, which set the 2010 production of “Goethe!” in a non-stop entertaining motion.
Think “Shakespeare in Love” not “Hamlet” when you buy tickets to this movie.
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