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"It took me a while to get into this novel, but after the first hundred pages or so I was hooked. I have never been to Berlin and know almost nothing about the Weimar Republic, so I was
confused about all the various groups/factions, etc. but nev..."
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March 1930: Silent movie actress Betty Winter is killed on set after a lighting system falls on her. Talkies are destroying the careers of producers, cinema owners and stars in a world that is already bubbling with studio wars and sexual politics....
THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN " Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars."-- NPR "Volker Kutscher, who wrote the novels on which the series is based, has a...
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DVD - 2001
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
"There's nothing Jilly Truitt likes more than winning a case, especially against her former mentor, prosecutor Cy Kenge. Jilly has her own baggage, the residue of a dark time in a series of foster homes, but that's in the past. Now she's building...
