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Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.

A short documentary on life in Iceland.

A short comedy directed by Kurt Nachmann.

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory impetus. Export provides precise instructions for the use of a wrapped box of chocolate-covered candy produced by the renowned Viennese company Hofbauer. However, she has not made an advertisement for them and their presentation, but instead, she extols the packqge and confection as a work of art. Severe degradation of the surviving tape further blurs our perceptions.

The weaker sex must become stronger - but how can this be achieved? The central keyword of the six filmmakers Claudia von Alemann, Susanne Beyeler, Erika Runge, Helke Sander, Ula Stöckl and Hanna Laura Klar is: emancipation. Together, they will discuss the importance of films for feminist consciousness-raising and the role of female filmmakers in this process. A statement will be followed by an exemplary feature film scene. Claudia von Alemann talks about the unequal division of housework and advocates the remuneration of this work. How can the relationship between work and family be improved for working women? What about bringing up children? What steps are necessary to overcome the unequal gender order? One thing is clear: Film work is political practice.

Documentary on Erich von Stroheim

Music student Susanne and her cousin Monika inherit an alpine pasture. They have no idea that their hut is being used by a gang of smugglers as a temporary storage facility. While Susanne and her friends use the paradisiacal place to celebrate and play music, the crooks try all sorts of tricks to get hold of their hot goods.

Out of a desire for adventure, a middle-class university student (Mike Sarn) joins a political revolution. Unexpectedly, the women are victorious; they dress in uniforms and proclaim a military dictatorship to be ruled by a senile puppet. All writers are persecuted and tortured. Of course, the public takes the side of the attractive meter maids. Retaliatory strikes are sometimes successful, but the country's top minds are gradually wiped out.

HARLEM, USA: in the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s murder, German filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn turned his 16mm camera on the New Lafayette Theatre as its players rehearsed scenes, ran public workshops and conducted exercises in uptown Manhattan. New Lafayette (or NLT) had been founded by actor-director Robert Macbeth the previous year, with the aim of producing theater for black people, by black people, to reflect the experiences and vernacular of the Harlem community. Within the Black Arts Movement, NLT would become a significant institution: it published the journal Black Theatre, and employed a host of talents – including the Black Panthers’ Minister of Culture, Ed Bullins, and the great pianist Junior Mance, both of whom appear in Wildenhahn’s film as resident collaborators.

The young student Hanna, on the surface a typical representative of her generation, suffers from a special form of schizophrenia, hebephrenia. In her own world of perception, oscillating between madness and the search for truth, she desperately searches for personal happiness, but also for poetry and her idea of freedom.

Documentary film.

An old librarian, Professor Columbus, wants to go to the sea once in his lifetime. So he buys a big ship and takes a boat trip across the North Sea to London, accompanied by a bunch of stoned hippies, and chased by the police.

In a future world devoid of men, three young women order two men to come to them and ask them which of them they would prefer.

Short documentary directed by Günter Schlesinger

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as the long walk to school, the distribution of milk during breaks, and a brawl in the courtyard.

An eccentric marquis, for personal reasons, makes a deal with a man to kill him within six months. But some time later, he meets a woman and discovers that his reasons for being murdered have disappeared. Faced with this situation, he decides to go in search of the man he hired. From this point on, an abnormal, mysterious development begins, in which the future victim desperately pursues his killer.

A new tenant is suspected of being a serial killer. An adaptation of The Lodger, a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.

Omnibus film with 13 short films by students of the HfG Ulm

A short directed by Herbert Mayer-Franck.

Psichinski rings Mr. Semmler's doorbell and alerts him to strange noises in the attic. Together they sneak upstairs and discover a full-grown horse, which they report to the police officer. He triggers the alarm. The fire department and several workmen marvel at the event and ponder how it could have gotten there in its full size. The return transport requires structural measures and reconstruction work. After completion, Psischinski's house resembles a "jewel box". Later, the policeman asks Psischinski how he "managed" the matter and learns that he had brought a foal there 1½ years ago in order to draw the attention of the public, especially the tradesmen, at the appropriate time so that work that was difficult to carry out could finally be completed. Shaking his head, the official, who also owns a house, leaves the property with the comment: "You should have a horse!"

The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938).

A man-made catastrophe depopulates entire regions. How do survivors observe this event, and how do others react?

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

An experimental, bizarre and a very different shooting of an association between the sexes.

After a historical excursus on the most common venereal diseases, doctors report on various cases of infection, each illustrated in the manner of amateurish reportage films.

Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...

In a desperate bid to regain his fortune, the impoverished Elector of the Palatinate does everything in his power to arrange a marriage between his eldest daughter, Liselotte, and a wealthy nobleman—but to no avail, for with her tomboyish manner, the young woman sends all her suitors running for the hills.