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Twelve years after graduating from high school, Helmut Hausknecht's former class is planning a class reunion. Hausknecht, still a teacher, has heart problems. His former pupil, Wolfgang Lichtenfeld, now a senior physician and an excellent surgeon, operates on him. On his birthday, not only Wolfgang congratulates his former teacher and patient, but also Uwe Tolls. The two were rivals back then. Their brief encounter shows that nothing has changed.
This film by Rosi S. M., which was made in close cooperation with the residents of a top-floor apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg, offers close-up insights into the life of a commune. The people who live here are looking for alternative ways to live together as a community and share everything – including their partners. The declared goal of the joint project was to use film as a medium for critical self-expression and to create publicity for their political activism.
Portrait of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger.
During the ewing-period the shepherd has to take especially care of the flocks. He has to assist the ewes in ewing, to control the feeding of the lambs, and to switch orphaned and abandoned lambs to ewes that have lost their lamb. This is still done by the traditional method of skinning: The dead lamb's skin is slipped on the abandoned lamb to deceive the mother ewe. At this time the shepherd must also warm newly-born, supercooled lambs inside the house and feed them artificially.
A painterly, poetic experimental film with narrative elements. A woman is looking after an obviously blind man. She undresses, bandages and dresses him again. Since the action takes place on two temporal planes running in opposite directions, the couple's relationship appears to be in a state of stagnation. In-between, we are shown the images in the protagonists' minds: nightmares, an optical machine, but also erotic dreams from perhaps better days. Tango motifs and an aria (composed by Anthony Moore) reinforce the impression of a romantic chamber piece. The man's blindness refers to the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau, who destroyed his sight through keeping his naked eye fixed too long on the sun while researching into the persistence of luminous impressions on the retina. The pictorial technique, with layer after layer dissolving into one another, is reminiscent of the overpainting technique deployed by the director in her work for the canvas.
Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
An insight into various fashion shows in Germany, for example in Düsseldorf or Bonn.
Documentary about reggae in Jamaica and its history. Filmed in 1979.
Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her photography. She considers the stereotype of superficial nude photography anachronistic, and talks vividly about being at pains to develop a relationship of trust with the women she photographs. Schulze wants to show what makes up the "whole woman", living up to her position in East Germany. Scenes of women in the professional world have been edited into the film.
Pensioner Erich Zarling loves two things: his daughter Ulrike and his dog sports club, of which he is chairman. But this position is in danger, so he wants to make himself indispensable with a daring move: He wants to build a sports clubhouse. He has come up with a curious idea to raise the funds: the sale of thirty state-owned trees from Berlin's Puschkinallee. His daughter Ulrike, who loves to sing and dance, is a chambermaid at the "Stadt Berlin" hotel. And against her father's wishes, she dreams of the boards that mean the world. A guest, the pop singer Balter, hires her as a replacement for his absent partner at the "Night of the Celebrities". He promises her more, but disappoints her. Father Zarling comforts her and they sing the "Rose Song" together in his tricked-out sportsman's home.
Otto Kimmel had a long career as a confectioner. Now he is a pensioner and primarily a grandpa. In his house, where three generations live under one roof, Otto is the restless soul; this sometimes causes problems, but also brings a lot of joy. For his grandchildren, Grandpa Otto is a "fragrant buddy" because he is up for a lot of fun and initiates the craziest things. To Martha's chagrin, however, he sometimes oversteps his grandfatherly "sphere of competence". Amusing events and entanglements unfold over 75 minutes, and the "Gesellenstück" (journeyman's play) finally results in something that even Grandpa Kimmel is more than surprised by.
An old man is to be evicted from his home. He is the last tenant in an old house. He refuses to leave the flat and barricades himself in and spends his time writing protest letters to the government. Harder measures are soon taken against him.
Television film
The story of a young man's gradual awakening to reality, who learns from a letter from his father to come to terms with World War II and its consequences for his family.
Emilie Kappelhoff runs the household for her brother Julius. One day she discovers a savings book with a balance of 350,000 DM, which he wanted to keep secret from the family. Emilie and the children believe they have hit the jackpot, which will solve all their money worries. They quickly spread the news. Suddenly, many so-called friends come forward.
One woman reflects on her relationship with men, the other on her relationship with women. However, the actual liaison takes place between verbal material and visual space.
Eva Skerstrupp, night nurse at a hospital, 39 years old, raised in a children's home, once divorced and now widowed. She is raising her eight children alone, the youngest of whom is two years old, the others between 13 and 19. Family life is portrayed in small snippets of everyday life.
A story based on precise milieu studies about a mother and daughter who move from East Germany to West Berlin to build a new life in a “foreign” country.
How much does it cost to enjoy a full bath at an altitude of 1,500 meters in a mountain village without electricity or running water?
Old Europe: dreary. Kai and Ella want to emigrate. The noble savage, romantic principle, going back as a perspective. Let's go, but the film actually runs backwards. "Someone wanted to become a Negro," and Kai's anxious, conventional neighbor turns out to be the real adventurer.
Experimental short film
Disco-Film 38: In a cheerful interpretation of the song "Tanzt keiner Boogie", the group Silly and their singer Tamara Danz target the dance behavior of young people.
The film portrays the photographer Walter Ballhause, who walks the streets of his home town of Hanover in the 1930s with his Leica and photographs people: People waiting on bridge railings, on park benches, in endless queues in front of the employment offices...
Documentary by Werner Penzel.
After a brief overview of the situation of the Protestant Church in the German Reich and in Bavaria in the first months of 1933, contemporary witnesses report on the Protestant Church's fight against the oppression.
A film about which there are no words - an action with the camera - objects tell a random story - objects are bearers of obsessions -issuing energy as fetishes. Symbols of femininity and masculinity that have become glitter and trinkets are arranged, contemplated, varied, animated, recoded if not affirmed in their meaning, power. In the centre of all these things a wedding photo: beaming bride with happy, uniformed groom.
Paul and his illustrious young troops try to take the casino world of Italy by means of a secret system. In doing so, they unexpectedly come to a elderly countess which the boys and girls takes care of to make a hatched bank director plenty of safe content, thanks to the pierced wall of a theater that is newly acquired. The big break is imminent.
Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves her with too much work and too little time to sail. She can't find anyone to buy the boat at full value, so she tries to repair it over the winter in the hopes of being able to get a better price in the spring. Working on the boat become something of an obsession to the detriment of Christine's relationships with her son, boyfriend and collegues. When the boat is finally ready to sell, she isn't sure that she is willing to part with it after all.
Werner, Paul and Willi have to raise 10,000 DM within two weeks. Since one is disabled and unemployed, the other works at MacDonalds and the third, a mongoloid, works in the workshop for the disabled, the purchase of a tobacco kiosk threatens to remain an unattainable dream for the trio.
The private sphere brought into the political spotlight.
Several species of dragonflies are shown in their natural habitat.
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime and is quickly pigeonholed by outsiders because of her living situation. However, the criminal environment doesn't say much about the person.
Our breathing is one of the kinds of motion nearest to us. If we hold our breath, even if only for a short moment, the horizon begins to waver. We lose the only Dearings we had, and nothing remains but motion. The image turns into a picture; the cause of our seasickness disappears.
Two different positions and perspectives develop images and sounds based on the same things and texts. Montage of different places – "Outside the Ocean": North – South, Hamburg – Naples, GDR – Southern Italy, USA – Paestum. The aura of places. In the cockpit of the camera. Seeing the differentiation between things.
The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa.
A deliberately subjective diary film by German filmmaker Hark Bohm, who shot documentary footage in Nicaragua and attempts to convey the contradictions and problems of this Latin American country, which has been in a state of war for years. Without commentary, different statements and perspectives are juxtaposed, making the tensions in the country between utopia and reality quite apparent.
Author Christoph Boekel reconstructs his father's wartime deployment in 1941, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, which at the time included Ukraine.
In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of setting out into the world. As short as the film is and as curious its contents, the chequered story of its working and release titles is just as interesting. In 1987, the industry magazine “Film und Fernsehen” presented it simply as “A DEFA film by”. The text printed there ends with a sentence in brackets: (And many a viewer may marvel at the courage of the little ducklings and feel encouraged themselves.)
In 1985, I threw a reel in the small pond of my garden. I think it was Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. I got it back a year later. This experiment is described in Aus den Algen. After the comments, we see the filmed material recovered. From the original copy, only the support survived: seaweed cultures have settled there, which now provide the content of the images.
"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectivized. Consequently, the leading actor shoots the film's author.
Feature film based on a South American myth in which a woman transforms into a jaguar.
Scenes of a big city follow one another and turn into alienated settings using grafitti painting and rap music.
Experimental short film
Documentary about a small German village and its inhabitants four decades after the last remaining jewish inhabitants were chased away or put into concentration camps. Interviews with the people of the village about the past as well as with the exiled jewish community, now living in New York.
TV-Movie directed by Franz Antel.
Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life in Zehdenick for exactly 100 years. Seasoned brickmakers and young skilled workers speak frankly and critically about their working and living conditions and their futile efforts to improve them. The film is the first part of the Märkische Trilogie, which Volker Koepp shot "over the course of time about a brickworks in the small town of Zehdenick in the Mark Brandenburg. The very sensitively and atmospherically designed film was withheld by the GDR censors of the time. A depressing report about outdated production methods and disillusioned people."