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After his first day at school 6 year old Hugo doesn't want to continue to go to this "institution". He appeals to God to become a grown up, who fulfills his wish and lets him experience life as an adult in the body of his father, a police physician. When Hugo falls under suspicion of having failed in his profession he again turns to God.

In NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subjects herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible.

This is the first failed attempt of the author.

Documentary film about the effects of the housing situation of Turkish foreign worker families on their children.

A man, alone in Berlin. He sleeps and watches TV, walks through the city. A woman approaches him. Does he feel like having coffee with her? No.

A mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.

The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle propelled flying machine. But he is kept in custody since the Thrid Reich.

Rossini's opera for La Scala. Considered one of Rossini's most brilliant compositions, The Thieving Magpie stars Ileana Cortrubas and Nucci Condo.

The violence that prevails between men and women often tears cause and effect apart, banishing them to different times and places. Is there such a thing as proportionality of means? The film is about four women of different ages who together could form a story.

13.08.1988

The film tells the story of two POC teenagers from a traditional polygamous family, daughters of a father and different mothers from the same homestead: interior views from a distant everyday life. Two young women, their hopes, fears and dreams of having children, love and polygamy. Bibi is 17 and already has a baby, 15-year-old Riki is determined to become a private detective in Paris - but she is determined to take the fireplace from her homestead in Africa with her overseas.

Experimental short film

The celebration of communion in Christian ceremonies is one of the oldest elements of church tradition. The film shows how young people prepare and celebrate communion together during a leisure activity.

Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department store canteen and has become an outsider due to his shape and infantile appearance.

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you used to know?

A GDR documentary from the 1980s. Sachsenplatz in modern Leipzig: Waltraut Kosetzka, 61, and 55-year-old Inge Arnold are among the women who helped to rebuild the destroyed city after the collapse of the Third Reich. The film portrays the two women, documents their biographies, accompanies them in their everyday professional and private lives and visits their old places of work as rubble women. To emphasize the importance of their work, old footage of destroyed buildings is contrasted with new buildings. It is repeatedly emphasized that their work made a decisive contribution to improving housing conditions in Leipzig. To this day, the two working women are committed to maintaining their city.

A talking man and a scratching female artist.

"Meeting place at Infinity" - Combines interviews with family members, contemporary witnesses, experts and critics, text passages as well as photo and film material with staged film scenes. The result is a portrait of the writer, his family and his time.

The time is World War II, and Juergen Siebusch and his mother are retreating along with the German army, just ahead of the invading Russian forces. Both mother and son hole up in the town of Hohengoerse, where Juergen finds some work watching over sheep - and learns a bit about the facts of sheep life that he extrapolates to some advantage when he meets the appealing Amelie, daughter of the landowner. He first helps Amelie out and later applies his new-found knowledge in a barn, appropriately enough. As the Red Army draws near, Juergen deserts a hastily put-together "people's force," as he prefers the barn to the gun. Russian soldiers are shown sleeping and snoring next to their tanks, and the local fascist executed - the war is over. When the new Communist government sets up a land reform package, Amelie's mother's land gets divided up into small plots for small farmers.

The poem "Der Anachronistische Zug oder Freiheit und Democracy" (The Anachronistic Train, or Freedom and Democracy), written by Berthold Brecht in 1947, forms the basis for the campaign launched on the occasion of the 1980 federal elections under the slogan "Brecht statt Strauß" (Brecht instead of Strauß): a journey across the entire Federal Republic.

A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.

Short documentary about condors

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

The film follows Circus Hein for a few days. Sandra, Benjamin, Enrico and Jessica are in the circus ring with their parents as clowns and acrobats.

After the short story of Franz Kafka “Unhappiness”. A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: “Go out of my way, you seem to have strayed.” Says the other: “For thousands of years I’ve been looking for a formula to find you, please do not send me away again.” The first one is already slightly pissed: “The destiny of a parallel is to be eternally alone, on the way to infinity.” “No, no,” the second one desperately screams: “One parallel is nothing, alone you are only an undefined line.“

From one day to the next, the life of married Ulla Kranz is turned completely upside down. She has spent 23 years at Werner's side, they have been through thick and thin and have a daughter together named Jenny. When her husband suddenly confesses to having an affair with the attractive and considerably younger Marion, her world falls apart.

Documentary produced by ORF and NDR in 1985 about the German author and soldier Ernst Jünger

At night, two patrol cars in front of a brightly lit bar. A man is arrested and taken to prison. A few streets away, a young woman has slit her wrists in her boyfriend's apartment out of lovesickness. Things that happen every day, everywhere, and yet nobody usually takes any notice of them.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger is the third studio album by English pop rock band Duran Duran, released globally in November 1983. It would prove to be the last studio album for the band's original lineup until 2004's Astronaut.

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

This film is the last in a series of four films about European history. The film describes the apparent goal of European history: the blessed state of the social democratic paradise.

Since June 1983, nine editions, black and white, 16mm blown up to 35mm. Between commercials and the main feature, five minutes of black and white: newsreels from the 1990s with stylistic elements from the 1950s.

An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

Hedda Gabler, the spoiled daughter of a general, marries the staid scholar Tesman in the hope that he will develop into an important personality. But Hedda is an eccentric woman and her expectations of life are insatiable. She has no sympathy for her husband's work and quickly becomes bored in her petty bourgeois circumstances. Then Ejlert Lövberg, a colleague of her husband's, returns to the city he left because of his dissolute lifestyle. They have known each other since those days, but Hedda feared a scandal if she had returned his passionate love. Ejlert is rehabilitated thanks to Thea, the woman at his side. But Hedda's love for him reawakens and, driven by her nature to determine the fate of other people, she drives Ejlert to disaster.

20.03.1988

Short documentary about celts

When the ten-year-old Til and two of his friends are caught in heavy rains, they escape into a barn. They are not alone in there, however. A man whom they do not recognize is obviously stealing crop from the barn. When the friends investigate the matter, Tim discovers the terrible fact that the thief is his own father. Since he wants to keep his discovery a secret by all means, he sets his friends on the wrong track. Although Til is embarrassed and would like to know the reason for the thievery, he does not have the guts to take his father to task. Eventually, he breaks the secret to the coachman Paul. In the meantime, however, his friends have also found out about Til′s father and the case is revealed.

Documentary about German director Harald Reinl

A short video- and sound montage by Lutz Mommartz.

Little Felix Grosser is given a chest full of tin toys by old Mrs. Goldberg. The woman had once saved the toys for her future grandchildren, but her children were too busy working to start a family. Now Felix receives the old toy and Mrs. Goldberg warns him not to let it fall into other people's hands. Felix takes a white, dancing "magic horse" from the chest into his nursery, along with various other items. His parents, who are busy remodeling the bathroom despite a lack of materials, only find out after a while that the pony is a gift from Mrs. Goldberg, who no longer lives in the house. They have no idea about the chest full of toys in the attic.

Film material is subjected to biochemical processes by burying it in the garden, storing it in a pond, or overheating it. The results of these natural processes of decay or aging are then copied back onto film and thus conserved in the state of their dissolution. - Lightcone

TV recording of a production of the play of the same name in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Inspector Koschonsky finds the lint and solves the case using a chain of evidence consisting of lint, musical notes, and sounds.

The film is a late payoff with a Genius, who took his job more important as the politics that led to total destruction.

A lonely young lady strolls through the busy streets of a big city in the evening and casts meaningful glances at passers-by. Short conversations ensue and a man finally invites her to his place. He laboriously prepares dinner for her, but she becomes increasingly bored and suddenly disappears. She walks through the streets again and finally enters a record store. With ambiguous words she attracts the attention of the salesman, then the movie ends.

The fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a first summary of the development of the company since its almost ten-year existence. Edith Rupp takes center stage. She is now a master craftswoman and has become engaged, but is still skeptical about what the future will bring.