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Builds all four core skills of a language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Choose from 100+ languages including English lessons for speakers of over 25 different languages, including American Sign Language. Set up an account to track your progress through lessons, and continue on the mobile app. Pronunciation/Speaking practice component requires use of a microphone for evaluation.
61) Good bye Lenin!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Kids will explore languages from all over Europe with these interactive learning games! Explore the languages spoken in Europe; Hear the proper pronunciation of words; Learn basic vocabulary in multiple languages; Practice saying the colors of the rainbow."--
Author
Publisher
[Katherine Schober]
Pub. Date
5 March 2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this how-to guide, learn how you can extract the information you need from German church records -- without having to decipher every word on the page. Complete with handpicked examples from real German church records..."--Back cover.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Six characters are drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
66) Effi Briest
Publisher
Wellspring Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out sheet (8 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
Series
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
Publisher
Wellspring Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics.
Author
Publisher
Avotaynu
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 796 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book....
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes...
71) In my room
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lost in life and beset by a recent passing, Armin has nowhere to go and just as much to show for himself. Fate (or something like it) intervenes when Armin awakes one morning and discovers that seemingly all of humanity has disappeared, leaving him to his limited devices and opening the door for self-discovery but the gift of maximum freedom bears complications.
73) The audition
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family, her son Jonas, who she brings into competition with her new student, and her husband Philippe. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 unnumbered pages : illustration ; 18 cm)
Language
Deutsch
Description
As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. Furniture is moved, walls painted, cupboards built. Amid all the hustle and bustle, secret longings and desires come to the surface and coalesce around the roommates as well as around Lisa's mother Astrid, the movers, the girls' old neighbors, the neighbors' cat, Lisa's new neighbor and an ever-expanding cast of characters. Day turns into night and one...
76) Beyto
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. A subtle, summerly sensuous love story about three young people.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however don't take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can't see any reason to leave Germany. But when Michael, Leah's younger brother, indicates that he actually is an ardent admirer of the national socialist movement, the...
Publisher
Strand Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lola manages her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to succeed in the business world. But when she receives the news that her older sister Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets begin to unravel into the workplace. As she tries to do what's best for her sister without jeopardizing all she's worked hard for, Lola slowly finds her own grip on reality slipping away.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Marriage of Maria Braun: A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.
Veronika Voss: Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress who meets a sports reporter writing a story about her.
Lola: In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.
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