Summary: Based on a true story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2010

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Vieweg, Klaus

Summary: "A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most famous man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Friederich Wilhelm Hegel. Hegel, the most famous figure in modern philosophy, arguably its father, believed that to philosophize is to learn to live freely. He was slow and cautious in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2023

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Summary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Schubert, Thomas

Summary: An incarcerated teenager hopes to win parole by working at a local morgue.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013

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Summary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Contents: Serenade no. 7 KV 250 "Haffner" (50:55) -- Serenade no. 6 KV 239 "Serenata notturna" (11:56).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1990

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