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Köln 75

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Writer/director Ido Fluk tackles the life of teenage concert organizer Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) and the Köln Concert, recorded in the West German Opera House which would become both the best-selling Jazz solo album and the best-selling piano album ever recorded. Breaking out of her stifling family dynamic, Brandes started booking clubs and concerts for Jazz musicians at the age of 15 and three years later, despite a number of obstacles, delivered Keith Jarrett (John Magaro) on stage to perform what is regarded as a seminal moment in music history.

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11 Rebels

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Set during the Japanese Revolution, 11 Rebels offers a fictionalized account of the Shibata clan’s betrayal. Attempting to mollify both sides, the clan prepares for envoys of the current government, it sends a smattering of soldiers in a group made up mostly of pardoned convicts to defend an outpost outside the city, delaying forces from the other side of the war until the current envoys have left (allowing the clan to appear as if they are backing both sides).

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The Woman in Cabin 10

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Adapted from the novel of the same name, and with more than a passing resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock‘s The Lady Vanishes, Keira Knightly stars as investigative journalist Laura Blacklock who, after a rough assignment, takes a posh assignment covering a group of the uber-rich on a private yacht. Things go wrong when Laura witnesses what she believes is a murder onboard, only for no one found to be missing and none of the crew nor the other guests willing to believe her story.

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M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television

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Brimming with clips and interviews, M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television offers a look back at the beloved television series which aired from 1972 to 1983, far outlasting the length of the war in which the sitcom about a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital was set. So iconic, many today forget M*A*S*H, inspired by Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel, was a movie before a TV-series (which the documentary touches on briefly).

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