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Documentary film about the successful erotic film producer and author Alois Brummer. Documentary filmmaker Hans Jürgen Syberberg accompanies Brummer for six days in his daily business during the shooting of Brummer's film “Graf Porno und die liebesdurstigen Töchter” (Count Porno and the Love-Thirsty Daughters). In addition to Brummer, his employees and actors also have their say.
The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how many failures he endures, his ardour is never dampened. He continues with his dream to fly like a bird.
After the suicide of his father, a boy commits several pranks to take revenge on the supposed culprit and is suspected of being an arsonist without guilt.
A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.
"Actions of Indication is an intermission film, which means it is a film for the intermissions in movie theaters. Get the message: FILM is caviar like BASKIN ROBBINS is ice cream." (HHK)
The rich and respected London doctor Roger Mills has invited six of his best friends onto his boat on the Thames - he won't survive the trip.
After being raped by her father, Sabine runs off to the German countryside, where she lives on a farm with free-loving women and pervy men. Only 59 minutes of this exist.
Two men and a woman drive towards a strange ceremony.
The devil plays the leading role, but rarely has the devil taken such a charming and seductive form as in Anouilh's. As a young girl named Biondetta - blond and innocent as an angel - Lucifer appears to the young Spanish nobleman Alvarez, who is an officer in the service of the King of Naples. In this guise, it is easy for the devil to make the young Spaniard fall in love with him. But Eros has a hard time when strict custom and morality suppress nature. In vain the devil tempts him with the pleasures of the world. Neither carnival, gambling, nor the most beautiful courtesan can yet soften the officer. Or can they?
Documentary short film.
A gang of white slavers lure beautiful young women into prostitution by staging beauty contests in which the "prize" is a Hollywood contract. The "winners" are then drugged and sold to international sex traffickers
A Russian official and his three female coworkers are mistaken for a pimp and his three prostitutes.
Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban Switzerland.
Ugo Domani has landed as a guest worker in Germany and works in municipal waste collection. As a constantly sharp-edged Papagallo, he is sexually constantly under power and craves for German women.
Documentary about the famous German robber Michael Heigl.
The members of a wedding party play a game whereby each describes the events of their own wedding night.
An avant-garde visual poem on motion.
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
A person sticks it out for 24 hours in front of the camera. Every ten minutes a short clip was recorded, 8 frames per second (which is then projected at a speed of 24 f.p.s.). The tiredness of 24 hours in a time lapse of 4 minutes. (E.S.jr.)
A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.
A man wants to buy a house in Lower Saxony and meets a mysterious woman.
Young Italian stud Franco comes to Munich to earn some money for his family in Italy. But soon he explores the local women, and besides his affairs he finds a new friend, George, a sex film producer.
In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society.
Uwe Friessner’s first feature, At the End of the Rainbow, follows the exploits of a West Berlin teenager named Jimmi who ekes out a living through petty theft and part-time hustling, hangs out in punk clubs, and who, for reasons which this film subtly details, is thoroughly unemployable. Drawing on his own experience in trying to help a young runaway who eventually committed suicide, Friessner wrote into Jimmi’s story several older students who attempt to find work for him, and who give him shelter for a time in their commune.
The impotent count Anatol loves to photograph his wife Verena, while she is having fun with other men. Everything changes when Verena falls in love with Toni, a young auto mechanic.
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.
Documentary about the films of John Ford.
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls up with the new tenants' furniture. And they include two small children - now, of all times, when old Matuschke's wife has just died and consideration should actually be shown for the widower. Even worse for Mrs. Tillack, however, is the fact that the entire male world seems to be after her 16-year-old daughter Katrin.
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
Among his friends in the imperial Austro-Hungarian army, young lieutenant Ferdinand has the reputation of being a real Casanova. Unfortunately for our friend, this reputation is far from the truth, for in reality he has never had any sexual experience at all. The night before his wedding, he decides to go to a brothel where the Madame will introduce him to the joys of life...
A series of still photographs, is various states of photographic exposure.
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
The allotment gardens on the outskirts of the city of Zurich provide hundreds of unpropertied men and women with a home which they are unable to find in the impersonal rented blocks in which they live. The gardens represent their hobby, their freedom and their living space, which exists side by side with hard work. They cannot however own these "homes" and the film shows the chronicle of the events which took place in 1976 - 77 when construction of the Zurich wholesale market hall destroyed 150 gardens and made many people "homeless". This portrait of a group is complemented by the stories of three individuals.
In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a career and luck from a trip to Rome together.
Löffler, a young teacher, strives to deal with his 6th form pupils as partners and in an anti-authorian manner. The film discovers a person who - without the least fear of making mistakes - distrusts the prevalent way.
Drama about the shipwreck of the frigate "Méduse" off the coast of Senegal. In France, the commander responsible, Chaumarey, is finally put on trial.
Scientific documentary film exposing the cencorship laws in the BRD as an instrument used for propaganda. Its the third part of the "Bundesdeutsche Filmpolitik" Trilogie.