Axel Engstfeld

Von Richtern und anderen Sympathisanten

Axel Engstfeld

Peggy Parnass

September 1943: the Special Court of Oldenburg pronounces a verdict against an office courier. The man was found guilty of absconding two bars of soap and a tin of shoe polish. As a dangerous public enemy, he is sentenced to death. More than 16,000 death sentences were passed by the Special Court and the People's Court during the Nazi era. And the judges and state prosecutors who perpetrated these injustices were back on the bench after 1945. Peggy Parnass, a Jewish journalist and a relative of victims of Nazi injustices, experienced this continuity and described many of its ramifications in more than 10 years as a court reporter. The film follows her radical, subjective viewpoint and her incredible encounters with Nazi jurists in today's courts of law.

Das Alaska Syndrom

Axel Engstfeld

Documentary feature about the accident of the super tanker "Exxon Valdez" in Alaska in 1989.

Antarctica Projekt

Axel Engstfeld

The film follows the first Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctic on board of the Ross Sea. The film is also about the attempts of the industrialized nations to parcel out the 'last continent'.

Krieg und Frieden

Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust

Hans-Michael Rehberg, Jürgen Prochnow

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

Minik

Axel Engstfeld