2026 Movie Catalog

Three Wishes

Dir: Martha Coolidge

In an unexplained act of charity, Jeanne Holman, picks up an injured, apparent tramp and takes him home to care for him little realizing who he was, or the effect he would have on her life and those of her family.

English

17th Airborne: The Bulge To The Rhine

Dir: Howard Dallin

5 veterans of the 681st Glider Field Artillery Battalion reflect on a time the world will never forget . . . and their small part in it. Enhanced by dramatic battle footage and personal photographs, their very real tale will be understood by fighting men everywhere. No grand strategies or famous leaders, just boys who became men in the excruciating crucible of all-out war.

WORLD

Pistol Packin' Mama: The Missions Of A B-17

Dir: Tom Jenz

5 crew members of Betty Boop/Pistol Packin' Mama relate what it was like in the grim early days of daylight bombing. Members of the 390th Bomb Group, they led their squadron and sometimes the entire 8th Air Force into action. Enhanced by stunning combat film and personal photos, this is how it was battling fighters and flak 25,000 feet above Hitler's Third Reich, often without fighter support.

WORLD

Atkins

Dir: Helge Trimpert

A Western set in the US around the turn of the century. Atkins leaves the city to return to the valley where he formerly lived. There he meets Native Americans who learn to trust him. They ask Atkins to buy weapons for them. On his journey Atkins meets Morris, whose interest in mineral resources puts Atkins loyalty to the Native Americans to the test.

Russian

Lenz

Dir: Alexandre Rockwell

An adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "Lenz", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.

NORTH AMERICA

Severino

Dir: Claus Dobberke

Severino returns to his tribe - the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes - after being gone for 10 years. He has returned to take his younger brother back with him up north, but encounters a host of problems in his home village instead. His father Raymundo, who was on the trail of a gang of white bandits who were stealing cattle from both Indians and settlers, has been recently found dead. A sheep-ranching company turns out to be behind this criminal activity. The company wants to drive the Indians and settlers off the fertile land so that they can purchase it for nothing. Severino decides to remain in his home village to defend it from them, but also because he has fallen in love with Maruja, the granddaughter of the old chief Nicolas, who is filled with hatred against the white settlers. True to form, Nicolas calls for war against the settlers. Severino tries to mediate between the hostile parties. With his own savings, Severino buys back the land that once rightfully belonged to the Indians. In doing so, he not only wins over a number of supporters from his own tribe, but he is also able to unmask the bandits, who had been trying to stir up discord between Whites and Indians. The stubborn chief Nicolas, however, refuses to give up his war plans: in his eyes, Severino is a traitor deserving only death. Maruja now has to save Severino's life from his own tribe.

Russian

Tecumseh

Dir: Hans Kratzert

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of vast hunting grounds at ludicrously low prices without any bloodshed. Harrison, Governor of Indiana, has made and broke no less than fifteen such treaties, driving increasing numbers of Indians out to the infertile West. To put a stop to this criminal practice, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh tries to unite the Native Americans. In 1811, he founds a tribal alliance and has Native American lands declared communal property. Chiefs who sell their land in spite of this agreement are to be killed. During the chief's absence, however, Harrison raids the "sacred city" of Tippecanoe founded by Tecumseh and his supporters, reducing it to ashes. The few survivors of the bloodbath flee to Canada, where they join forces with the English as they wage war against America. But they, too, fail to keep their promise to Tecumseh concerning an independent Indian state. In a decisive battle, the defeated English betray and abandon their Native American allies. Together with the other members of his tribe, Tecumseh is killed too.

Russian

Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death

Dir: Harald Reinl

An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.

Russian

The Diary Of Anne Frank

Dir: Alex Segal

The story is based on a stageplay which was in turn based on the actual diary of Anne Frank, whose family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942, sharing a very small space with several others. We watch her grow up in this claustrophobic setting, starting at age 13 and spending more than two years there until the group was discovered.

WORLD

The Sons of Great Bear

Dir: Josef Mach

Whites expel Dakotas from Black Hills after finding gold, defying treaty. Chief's son Tokei-ihto rejects barren reservation after his father's murder. Out of prison, he leads tribe's flight to Canada, confronting murderer Red Fox.

Russian