Alfred Edel
1932 - 1993
Das Casanova-Projekt
F.K. Waechter, Robert Gernhardt
Alfred Edel, Rainer Friedrichsen
Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful personality spoils Hartmann's vision of a glorious Casanova epic. In the end, the director realizes that all the time he wanted to make this movie to please his mother, so he decides instead to join Edel's way of having fun.
Das Casanova-Projekt
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Stroszek
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Eva Mattes
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Stroszek
Hitler: A Film from Germany
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Harry Baer, Heinz Schubert
This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a child during World War II, doesn't try to recreate history to the letter. Instead, he places his actors -- many of whom play several roles -- on a stage and has them reenact events based on and inspired by Hitler's life. The action combines traditional narration and historical characters, but also idiosyncratic tweaks, like the use of puppets.
Our Hitler: A Film from Germany
Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien
Bettina Böhler
Christoph Schlingensief, Tilda Swinton
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Alexander Kluge
Alexandra Kluge, Bion Steinborn
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
Supermarkt
Roland Klick
Charly Wierczejewski, Eva Mattes
Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.
Supermarket
Die Patriotin
Alexander Kluge
Hannelore Hoger, Dieter Mainka
Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers and drills.
The Patriotic Woman
In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod
Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge
Dagmar Bödderich, Jutta Winkelmann
Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve of utopian optimism.
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
