Good German

Series examining science and morality during the Third Reich; the practice of eugenics and euthanasia in Nazi occupied Europe.

The United States is in the midst of a natural gas boom — about 200,000 gas wells have been drilled in the past decade. The boom has been fueled by the use of hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — which involves pumping a mixture of water and chemicals into the ground to get access to the gas. The rush to extract natural gas has helped the economy pick up in places like Pennsylvania, but it also has raised questions that scientists can't yet answer about potential health and environmental problems. Some argue that the benefits of the natural gas boom outweigh the risks, but others say no fracking way. A group of experts took on that dispute in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, held at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. They faced off two against two in an Oxford-style debate on the motion: "The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm Than Good."

A misguided attempt to dramatize the psychological triad formed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Erland Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Robert Powell), and a Russian girl named Lou Von Salome (Dominique Sanda), this overbearing drama fails mightily. Nietzsche is portrayed as a jealous sociopath who drives Rees to suicide, and director Liliana Cavani cannot resist including a drug-hallucination ballet about Good and Evil which approaches the excesses of her controversial Il Portiere di Notte in its melodramatic sexual hysteria.

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Pierre Bérard wird bei einem Autounfall schwer verletzt und liegt im Sterben. Vor seinem inneren Auge sieht er noch einmal die Stationen seines Lebens. Dinge, die ihm bis dahin belanglos erschienen, haben auf einmal einen ganz anderen Stellenwert…

Synopsis
Pierre (Michel Piccoli), architecte d'une quarantaine d'années, est victime d'un accident de voiture. Ejecté du véhicule, dans le coma, au bord de la route, il revoit son passé et les deux femmes qui comptent dans sa vie, Catherine (Léa Massari) dont il est séparé et qui lui a donné un fils, et Hélène (Romy Schneider), avec qui sa relation amoureuse est à un tournant…

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the wall has fallen and East Germany does not exist anymore. The mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their apartment, and must hide the fact that her beloved East Germany is no more.