Volker Koepp

Schuldner

Volker Koepp

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

Wiederkehr

Volker Koepp

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

Gustav J.

Volker Koepp

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to Germany.

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

Volker Koepp

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

20 × Brandenburg

Heike Hartung, Jens Becker

Märkische Gesellschaft mbH

Volker Koepp

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but unemployment rises steadily.

Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann

Volker Koepp

In the west of Ukraine, not far from the border to Romania, there is a faraway European city: Czernowitz. It was once the centre of Jewish culture in the Bukowina, a border area characterized over centuries by a multi-cultural mixture of peoples. Here, Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, Germans and Jews lived side by side. Volker Koepp’s film focuses on Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann, two of the last few Jews born in the old Czernowitz. They share a friendship but also their love for the German language. Mr. Zwilling visits 90-year-old Mrs. Zuckermann daily in the early hours of the evening. They talk about old times, about shared events, about politics and literature and the worries of everyday life.

Livland

Volker Koepp

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

Märkische Ziegel

Volker Koepp

Documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp visits a brick factory in Zehdenick, East Germany.

Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz

Volker Koepp

Harvey Keitel, Norman Manea

Czernowitz, an out-of-the-way city in the middle of Europe. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the capital of the crown province of Bukowina. People of many different nationalities, languages, and cultures lived here together: Ukrainians, Romanians, Germans, Poles, Huzulians. Almost half of the population of Czernowitz, once amounting to 150,000 inhabitants, were Jews. The southern part of Bukowina is now part of Romania, the north, with Czernowitz/Chernivtsi, belongs to the Ukraine. Six years ago Volker Koepp made his film Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann there. Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz returns there with emigrants and their descendants.

24 h Berlin - Ein Tag im Leben

Nathalie Steinbart, Heike Hartung

Neues in Wittstock

Volker Koepp

Sixth Wittstock film.

Wittstock, Wittstock

Volker Koepp

Seventh and last Wittstock film.

Memelland

Volker Koepp

Documentary about the region next to the river Memel.

Kalte Heimat

Volker Koepp

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.

Holunderblüte

Volker Koepp

Fritzi Haberlandt, Volker Koepp

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside and with one another. After World War II and the expulsion of Germans by Stalin, the Prussian province turned into a Russian enclave. Volker Koepp’s fourth film about the Kaliningrad region is dedicated to the generation, born in the '90s, and familiar with the Soviet Union and East Prussia only from school books. Parents and grandparents who were forcefully resettled to where they are now have never really felt at home. In the meantime they have hopelessly succumbed to unemployment and alcohol. Their children can only rely on themselves. Older siblings look after the younger ones, they play with what lies around, and the girl Ljuda can’t wait to finally turn eighteen, to be able to take her brothers home from the orphanage. The film has much confidence in the children. But what will become of them?