Volker Koepp

Schuldner

Volker Koepp

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

Afghanistan 1362 - Erinnerung an eine Reise

Volker Koepp

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited Kabul and neighboring provinces. Koepp met a cross-section of people, such as soldiers, intellectuals, kids, and nomads, and with sensitive intensity told stories of their daily lives in the turmoil of an “undeclared war.” This travelogue, which was undertaken with the GDR’s consent, took a political risk because it expresses Koepp’s doubt that conflicts can be solved through military invention.

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.

Livland

Volker Koepp

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

20 × Brandenburg

Heike Hartung, Jens Becker

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.

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.

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

Wittstock, Wittstock

Volker Koepp

Seventh and last Wittstock film.

Neues in Wittstock

Volker Koepp

Sixth 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.