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- Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1999.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In an Austrian farming village during the '30s, narrator Severin watches an old woman, Rosalind, visit the bed of sleeping farmhand Lukas. Rosalind is accused when the owner of the farm is found dead. Local farmers believe his land will be divided among them, since he had no heirs, but his will states that both farm and livestock are left to his peasant workers. When the seven peasants decide not to sell, they join the ranks of the landed gentry. The community's established farmers first attack the seven peasants with slander and ridicule and then turn violent.
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ZDVD 3925 | Unknown |
2. Anatomie [videorecording] [1999]
- [Germany] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A dream comes true for Paula (Franka Potente), a gifted and ambitious medical student, when she's invited by the famous Professor Grombeck of Heidelberg to participate in an elite summer course in anatomy. But a disquieting shadow darkens Paula's happy little world when she finds the cadaver of a young man on her dissecton table - a man who, just yesterday, was full of life. When she begins to investigate the young man's death, she unearths some unseemly secrets at the seemingly respectable institution. Despite warnings from her professor and fellow students, who urge her not to delve further, Paula's unstoppable ambition compels her to get to the bottom of the mystery - and to jeopardize her life.
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3. Radical evil [2013]
- Austria ; Germany : docMovie, [2013]
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- Video — 1 streaming video file (93 min.) : digital, sound, color Sound: digital. Digital: streaming video file.
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Radical evil is a documentary asking why ordinary people become mass murderers. Its particular focus is on Nazi soldiers who murdered Jewish civilians with pistols and rifles in the years 1941 to 1943. About two million Jewish civilians are estimated to have been killed by these death squads in Eastern Europe.
4. Die Fälscher [videorecording] [2008]
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]
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- Video — 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's opponents. But, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop the operation. Now faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions are ultimately the right ones.
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5. All the queen's men [videorecording] [2003]
- Widescreen version. - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2003.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An American Army officer leads a mismatched team of British Special Services agents that must go in disguise as women and infiltrate a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
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- Widescreen. - Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2008]
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's opponents. But, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop the operation. Now faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions are ultimately the right ones.
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