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Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come...
From Caligari to Hitler
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones,...
The Stones and Brian Jones
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...
Mathias Kneißl
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth...
Code Name: Melville
Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating...
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
The Night of the Filmmakers
A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
Von Sex bis Simmel
The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the...
Die Verhoevens
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Hands Up!
Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...
Who is Helene Schwarz?
An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.
Billy, How Did You Do It?
In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The...
Malle's Fire Within
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
Fassbinder
Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in the early sixties, maintained a close friendship...
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and...
Michael Nyman in Progress
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Chance at Love
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman,...
Merkel
Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.
Film Lesson
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....
Cinématon
In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...
Billy Wilder Speaks
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status...
Filmmakers in Action
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to...
Léon Morin, Priest
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
Nuits transparentes
In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL...
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Gottschalk meets Petersen
West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The...
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...
Hollywood's Second World War
A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Volker Schlöndorff's thoughts about his 1979...
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they...
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Interviews with Alain Resnais' collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including sketches and production photos.
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming...
Melville, le dernier samouraï
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to...
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
Henri Langlois vu par...
The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world...
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Fuck the Message
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....
Last Year in Dachau
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together...
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
An exploration of the life of Anita Pallenberg, European actress and rock ’n’ roll muse. Told in Anita’s own words, from her...
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg