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• Stalingrad | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's tempting to call the harrowing Stalingrad a World War II version of All Quiet on the Western Front, since both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people--Russian defenders and German invaders alike. Not unlike Spielberg's approach to Saving Private Ryan, German director Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a series of gut-wrenching episodes, events that have the tang of authenticity and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so well. --Robert Horton

• Deutschland '83 and '86 Box Set | DVD | (13/05/2019) from £27.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deutschland 83 is a ground-breaking series from the producers of the international Emmy® award-winning Generation War. It s 1983. The Cold War is heating up. Russian missiles in East Germany are pointed West, American missiles will soon be placed in West Germany, to point East. The very real threat of nuclear conflict looms. Against this perilous political backdrop, a gripping coming-of-age story and a suspenseful, fast-paced thriller, follows Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay), a 24 year old East German native, who is thrust from the world he knows and sent over the wall to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi. In Deutschland 86 we pick up the narrative three years later. In 1986 East Germany is broke, Perestroika is real, terrorism plagues Europe, the AIDS crisis intensifies and the struggle against apartheid rages on. Martin's aunt, Lenora (Maria Shrader), conscripts him into her plan to drum up hard currency abroad and they set off on an adventure through Africa, Western Europe and finally home to East Germany. But can mafioso-style Capitalism really save Communism in the nick of time? Special Features: In German with English Subtitles Over 60 minutes of cast and crew interviews Includes New York launch panel discussion Picture Gallery

• Wisdom of Changes by Richard Wilhelm and The I Ching | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  CONFUCIUS, LAO TSE and in particular Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) is regarded as the European who discovered China's spiritual world. Wisdom of Changes is a documentary film about the life and work of the most distinguished translator and mediator of classical Chinese culture to the West. Richard Wilhelm came to China as a young missionary in 1899, a time when the country was under the exploitation of the colonial powers. He lived through revolts against foreigners, the passing of the ...

• Deutschland '86 | DVD | (13/05/2019) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1986: East Germany is broke, Perestroika is real, terrorism plagues Europe, the AIDS crisis intensifies and the struggle against apartheid rages on. Banished for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch wallows in limbo until his Aunt Lenora conscripts him into her plan to drum up hard currency abroad. They set off on an adventure through Africa, Western Europe and finally home to East Germany. Can mafioso-style Capitalism save Communism just in the nick of time?