USA 1960 | Director: Stanley Kramer | Running time: 123 minutes Tennessee, 1925: At a small-town school, the young teacher Cates dares to teach the theory of evolution according to Charles Darwin and is immediately arrested as a result. In the ensuing trial, which goes down in US history as the "monkey trial", the fundamentalist […]
BRD 1981 | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Running time: 106 minutes In 1970s Germany, the two sisters Juliane and Marianne fight for social change. While Juliane campaigns for women's rights as a journalist, her sister Marianne chooses to fight as an underground terrorist. When Marianne is finally arrested, the sisters' conflict between ideological differences, […]
USA 1944 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Running time: 96 minutes After a German U-boat sinks a US passenger ship during World War II, some American survivors find themselves on a lifeboat. They manage to pull another castaway on board, who turns out to be a crew member of the German submarine. Faced with storms, […]
Liberal societies in Europe have been under pressure for some time to deal with new forms of protest and radicalization. It seems that these tendencies are being reinforced by the current acute crises. The Crisis Talk explores the questions of how threatening these developments really are for society and democracy and what approaches are available […]
D/F 2014 | Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Running time: 84 minutes Paris, 1944: German General Dietrich von Choltitz is on the verge of giving the order to destroy Paris before the Allies can liberate the city. Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling manages to get into the general's hotel room to dissuade him from his decision. In […]
GB 2017 | Director: Sally Potter | Running time: 71 minutes To celebrate her appointment as Health Minister in the British shadow cabinet, Janet invites her friends to a party. But when her husband Bill makes a serious confession to the guests, the situation tips over. The moral certainties and ideological convictions of the left-liberal, […]
Book lɔ:ntʃ With: Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organizations, Member of the Research Center "Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, PRIF) transcript publisher 2023 In the second year of the Russian war against Ukraine, its global distortions are becoming increasingly apparent: The war is undermining the ability of international organizations to […]
Book Launch with Prof. Lisbeth Zimmermann, Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff, Dr. Max Lesch, Antonio Arcudi and Anton Peez Moderator: Prof. Tobias Wille About the Book International norms, institutions, and the international order itself are increasingly under challenge in virtually every policy area - from human rights and global health, through trade and climate change, to arms […]
Panel discussion The last generation is the subject of controversial social debate. On the one hand, the forms of protest and the group itself are exposed to criminal prosecution; on the other hand, civil disobedience as a political practice is ascribed a significant role in the socio-ecological transformation of society. In any case, the actions […]