– Michael Corleone, Godfather Part III [NOTE: I had planned to be finished adding new movies to this blog, but little did I realize that the long-lost experimental film Miss Butterfly (Fräulein Schmetterling
Even if your Netflix account’s default language is set to English (this can be changed in account settings), you’re able to switch between German audio and subtitles once the film starts to play. Look for a speech bubble within your video player to select languages. Try watching:“Magi:...
This refers to aGerman or Austrian emperor(the word that in turn came long ago from the Latin wordCaesar), and in English it’s mainly used in contexts that refer to the time before and during World War I. By the time that war ended in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II had been exiled to th...
1954, b/w, ca. 96 min. German dialogue, English subtitles - Part I takes us into German barracks life on the eve of World War II. Asch, pushed into open rebellion when a cruel officer drives a fellow soldier to the brink of suicide, wages a battle of wits with his superiors. Asch...
Canada is amidst a renaissance of refreshing movies by a new wave of directors. Told with a bold disaffected style recalling Michael Haneke, this debut is at the forefront. Hello Destroyer is an intimate portrait of a young hockey player and an incisive reflection on institutionalized violence....
the family must adapt and try to create a new life. If you’re interested in stories of Jewish refugees and World War II history, there is no other German film that has a more compassionate perspective. Though interspersed with Swahili and English, the characters in “Nowhere in Africa” pr...
You, as an adult, already know how to piece together complex thoughts and ideas in English, so you’re that much closer toGerman fluency. 2. You already speak one language. Infants and babies have lots on their plates in terms of learning a language. Not only do they have to learn wor...