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[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Berlin: Der Himmel ueber Berlin (clue's in the name, innit), aka Wings of Desire

Hamburg: The Odessa File (crap film but lots of HH location)

Nordrhein-Westfalen: Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharine Blum

[treibeis]

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Bavaria:
- All of the Lederhosen films (with a special mention going to Wo der Wildbach durchs Höschen rauscht and Eine Mutter namens Waldemar)

- Wenn die prallen Möpse hüpfen

Hamburg:
- Almost every film Fatih Akin has ever made.

[G-Man]

German Laender of Kino

Lübeck: Nosferatu (1922). It provided some of the exterior shots for the fictional Wisborg.

The city was a city state, as Hamburg and Bremen are, until the Nazi regime took that status away from them.

So, Die Buddenbrooks would fall under Schleswig-Holstein, as if the characters of Thomas Mann's novel were a bunch of Danes.

Wouldn't the thread premise work better by referring to cities? Nordrhein-Westfalen could be anything from Köln to Bochum to Bielefeld. It's like lumping all of Lancashire together.

[treibeis]

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Lübeck:

- Hilfe! Mein Mähdrescher ist wech!

_ Gibt es keine kleinen Kartoffeln, muss man die großen essen

- Kacke im Sack: Das beste Düngemittel Ostholsteins

- Hein Claussen vergisst seinen eigenen Namen

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

German Laender of Kino

G-Man, sure, but it's an analogy of the US state one, which has to cope for example with the case of California, being everything from San Fran to San Diego.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Manta, Manta (starring a young Til Schweiger) is very Ruhrgebiet, particularly Bochum and Wuppertal.

[treibeis]

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Stumpy Pepys wrote: Manta, Manta (starring a young Til Schweiger) is very Ruhrgebiet, particularly Bochum and Wuppertal.

I think Manta, Manta is quite funny. Nobody else I know does.

I also think Til Schweiger doesn't deserve as much criticism as he gets, if only for his response to the accusation that he only has three facial expressions: "Well, that's one and a half more than Steve McQueen had, and it never did him any harm."

(All right, he probably nicked it, but it was still good.)

Apart from the Lübeck-based ones I mentioned upthread, the films I've seen that have had the most north German feel about them are:

- Rocker (set in Hamburg and Lower Saxony and, astonishingly, made by ZDF)

- Nordsee ist Mordsee (set in Hamburg and, I think, Schleswig-Holstein)

- Rollo Aller (set in Hamburg)

[Levin]

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Either

Das Wunder von Bern
or
Der Kreiger und die Kaiserin

Oh and I'd go for Run Lola Run for Berlin

[Guy Profumo]

German Laender of Kino

G-Man wrote: Lübeck: Nosferatu (1922). It provided some of the exterior shots for the fictional Wisborg.

The city was a city state, as Hamburg and Bremen are, until the Nazi regime took that status away from them.

So, Die Buddenbrooks would fall under Schleswig-Holstein, as if the characters of Thomas Mann's novel were a bunch of Danes.

Wouldn't the thread premise work better by referring to cities? Nordrhein-Westfalen could be anything from Köln to Bochum to Bielefeld. It's like lumping all of Lancashire together.

Preferably in a skip…

[G-Man]

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treibeis wrote: Lübeck:

- Hilfe! Mein Mähdrescher ist wech!

_ Gibt es keine kleinen Kartoffeln, muss man die großen essen

- Kacke im Sack: Das beste Düngemittel Ostholsteins

- Hein Claussen vergisst seinen eigenen Namen

Lach aus laut.

[treibeis]

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Lower Saxony:
As of this evening, cinema-goers throughout the country can enjoy Die schöne Krista, an award-winning documentary about a cow from Oldenburg who was voted "Miss Holstein of Germany".

[G-Man]

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Probably prettier than Miss Schleswig-Holstein, too.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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This list is fairly northern. Has nobody made anything of note in southern Germany?

[treibeis]

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G-Man wrote: Probably prettier than Miss Schleswig-Holstein, too.

I just told The Lady I Walked To The Registry Office With (who was born in Schleswig-Holstein) what you said.

She was inconsolable. I tried everything to raise her spirits - I even promised her she could spend this evening sitting on the village ducking stool and trying to rake the moon's reflection from the village pond - but she wasn't having any of it.

She only perked up when I gave her some money so that she could go to the local Kolonialwaren shop for a tin of elbow grease and a glass hammer.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Berlin could also have Goodbye, Lenin!, which I enjoyed immensely.

[G-Man]

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treibeis, you are wasted here...

[tee rex]

Sylt (Schleswig-Holstein) stands in for Martha's Vineyard in Polanski's The Ghost Writer. It's not a great film, but it's fun studying the scenery and trying to guess where the director would have been allowed to work.

[Stumpy Pepys]

A lot of exteriors of Argento's Suspiria are filmed in Munich. Some in Freiburg.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Wuppertal is great in Wenders’ “Alice in the Cities”
Fatih Akin also did Bremen in the “Heaven” film whose title escapes me

[ursus arctos]

The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite auf Deutsch).

[Felicity, I guess so]

That’s the one, thanks.

Ironic, given what his films are often about, that the spellchecker tries to call him Faith Akin.

Will have to add that to my favourite “Cashiers du cinéma” when warning students to proofread.

[G-Man]

The Verhoeven film The Nasty Girl (or Das schreckliche Mädchen) was set in Bavaria.

[Stumpy Pepys]

While we're in Bavaria, I'm not sure whether to include the Lederhosen Porn (SFW) genre of the 1970s.

[sw2borshch]

Does Tatort count?