Stefan Drößler

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Chuck Workman

Simon Callow, Christopher Welles

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.

Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Süss

Felix Moeller

Thomas Harlan, Jan Harlan

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß - required viewing for all SS members. This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.

Verbotene Filme

Felix Moeller

Johanna Liebeneiner, Margarethe von Trotta

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, destroyed, or continue to be neglected? Verbotene Filme takes a closer look at some of these forbidden films.

Cornouaille

Anne Le Ny

Vanessa Paradis, Samuel Le Bihan

A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.

Wolf Wondratschek Laudatio auf Werner Schroeter

Christian Kretels, Stefan Drößler

In the Viennale 2008, Wolf Wondratschek, pronounces a laudatio by the filmmaker Werner Schroeter, in which, despite needing more time to do it, as he himself says at the beginning, he manages to highlight the great work of this master of different German arts .

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt im Gespräch mit Werner Schroeter

Stefan Drößler

Discussion between Werner Schroeter and critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt at the Vienna International Film Festival 2008.