Peter Kern
Birthday: 1949-02-13
Place of Birth: Wien, Austria
Biography: Iconoclastic Austrian indie director and former New German Cinema actor Peter Kern isn't just the subject of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's "Kern," but also the low-fi film's strongest creative force. He appeared in more than 70 feature films and directed a further 25. At his peak, Kern worked with the best directors of his era, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fox and His Friends, The Stationmaster's Wife), Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (Hitler: A Film From Germany) and Wim Wenders (Wrong Move). “When I yell at you, please do not be immediately hurt. If I insult you, take it as proof of love. Remember, I'm Austrian, insane, hysterical, hypocritical and undemocratic.”
Movies
Wrong Move
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother ...
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Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu...
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Rent Boys
Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active pr...
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Initiation
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gu...
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Die Oma ist tot
Grandma Vera travels by bus from a small Polish town to Pinneberg to celebrate her birthday with gra...
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Hitler: A Film from Germany
A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores ...
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Virgin Machine
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually ...
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Terror 2000
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigra...
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherw...
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Burning Life
Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to ...
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glos...
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special film...
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Die wilden Fünfziger
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann s...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his tr...
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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The Wild Duck
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gr...
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News from Robber Hotzenplotz
Cunning Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison with a trick. Kasperl and Seppl im...
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The Sternstein Manor
At the top of the mountain stands the beautiful Sternsteinhof farm. Leni, a girl from a poor backgro...
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Group Portrait with a Lady
Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fasci...
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Malina
An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man name...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...
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Himmel, Polt und Hölle
Policeman Simon Polt is on cloud nine. He finally has the village teacher Karin in his arms. But soo...
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La Paloma
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries...
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Seventeen and Anxious
Anna, a 17-year-old girl from Munich, is searching for answers about her sexuality and identity. Whi...
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Son of Hitler
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actuall...
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Today We're Playing Boss
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to ...
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Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken priso...
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Tonight or Never
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 polit...
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The Swing
Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless r...
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Jakob von Gunten
Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school....
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Kern
Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. ...
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Die Geisel
Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls...
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Kleinhoff Hotel
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at th...
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Adele Spitzeder
The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising ev...
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Flaming Hearts
When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in...
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Life Pornography
Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhy...
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Bella Donna
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort re...
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Das Totenreich
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. T...
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Street Kid
Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuse...
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Monkey Sandwich
Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favo...
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Zischke
Left alone by his mother for a few days, a Berlin schoolboy tries to escape the city and visit his f...
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Belief, Love, Death
When 82-year-old Mary takes her 63-year-old disabled son on a houseboat vacation on Lake Lychen in B...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diag...
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilli...
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Wenches
Esther and Sophie are BFF! When it comes to men, they however differ fundamentally . While the caree...
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