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Edgar Koltz travels back to Germany from his vacation destination on Mallorca. Koltz, who is traveling under the false name Heinrich Hauser, wants to use the 48-hour break in his vacation to rob the Munich Commercial and Credit Bank. He is called out under this name shortly after landing at the airport. Koltz receives an envelope containing an address where he can obtain further information. Later, the driver of the 8:10 train discovers a body on the tracks. The police have to establish whether there is a connection between the discovery of the body and the bank robbery in Munich.

Constructed from still photos and inspired by the essay of the same name by Günter Kunert.

A German Film Award winning short drama.

A film by Lutz Mommartz

Hotel manager Lis has loved the doctor Dr. med. Peter Arco since her childhood, who could theoretically be her father, still sees a child in her and is also the best friend of her brother Georg. Since Peter lives alone as a confirmed bachelor, Lis thinks of a ruse. She claims to be pregnant, but to have long since left the father of the unborn child. Georg, who wants to run for mayor in the next election, could cost his almost secure position with an illegitimate child in the family. Lis convinces him that one of his best friends should be willing to marry her for a contractually agreed short period of time and then divorce her again after the child is born. She suggests Peter, of whom she has a portrait, to whom she talks secretly. Georg persuades Peter to marry Lis and he stands by his friend ...

While Marxist guerrillas were dreaming of scientific socialism in the south of the country, untrammelled capitalism was being unleashed on a highly complex tribal society in the north

Crowds of people storm through the streets with red flags, to come together sometime in the middle of the picture. An insert promotes a Revolutionary German Workers Party.

A Third Reich consists of visual and acoustic phrases from the time of National Socialism. They were taken seriously in such a way that reveals their ridiculousness and then their deadly meaning.

Kurt Kren short

Wagner's communal drama on film.

Documentary film.

For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines, abandoned railway stations or deserted factories). The interplay between the two sets of imagery is not simple. Wyborny photographs his modern ruins at their most ravishing – at dawn or sunset, partially reflected in the water or glimpsed through the trees. Shots recur throughout, optically printed into brilliant colours or else, given the washed out quality of fifth generation Xeroxes. As there are few people shown, one’s impression is of a planet that is populated mainly by cows, barges and hydraulic drills.

Stage show with Udo Lindenberg. His voice is a little hoarse, but Udo rocks this evening too. Udo Lindenberg and the Panic Orchestra are on a major tour in 1978. rbb television shows the Frankfurt concert "Panic Nights".

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is making her so depressed that her work is the only thing that is saving her. In an attempt to break her addiction she enters into a relationship with another man. But the balance she is looking for eludes her, as now she has to choose between the two. But Eva can't: she wants to have an entire life, not part of one. In the form of a sort of filmic diary, Eva now attempts to sort out the puzzle, which is her life.

An experiment on loneliness in Berlin's sea of houses. A man and a girl roam the streets. Coal carriers, road construction workers and bodybuilders seem to be caught in a time warp of their desires. In an old Berlin pub, the girl goes to get beer for her father and suddenly starts singing a pop song.

A man is waiting, reading a newspaper, looking out of the window, etc., seen first at distance, then again in close-up, and the close-up forces a very intense kind of intimacy. His face, gestures, little sounds. Tired of waiting he ends up getting into bed. The close-up enters into the bed. No words or very few. Perhaps just a few murmurs.

Iris is an Elvis fan and part of a group of unemployed women who, in the scope of the first West German retraining program for women, are being trained in Essen in the "male professions" of electrical and metal work. Monika Held and Gisela Tuchtenhagen accompany the group for five weeks. The women report sexism, low self-esteem and the multiple burdens they must bear. To make any progress, they need support and one another – the regular weekly meeting where they share their experiences is moved to the pub.

A declaration of love to Lusatia and its Sorbian inhabitants.

It is nighttime, church bells ring in the distance, and the wind whistles through the trees. A man wearing a coat, hat, and carrying a flashlight sneaks around the house of interior designer Patricia Harrison. The kitchen window is open, allowing the stranger to gain access to the villa. He seems to be looking for something, but is interrupted by Patricia's sudden appearance. The man tries to strangle the woman, but the victim grabs a knife and kills the stranger in self-defense. Although the interior designer repeatedly insists in the following days that she has never seen the man before, evidence mounts that this is not true.

"New tasks are emerging for filmmakers on behalf of the labour movement" – this early work by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Wochenschau 4, was produced as a collective effort within the highly politicised DFFB (German Film and Television Academy, Berlin). It not only documents the "Hot Autumn"– the strike movement in Italy in 1969/1970 – but is itself a contribution to the "campaign for counter-information" to reporting on middle-class radio and television.

Using the example of 16-year-old, physically disabled Wolfgang, the film shows how non-disabled people can help a disabled person and what should be avoided. It also shows that the tense behavior on both sides is caused by fear and insecurity and that the disabled person can also do something wrong, i.e. is a completely normal person.

Depicts sexual deviations of various kinds and the question of what should be considered "normal" or not. The film deals with homosexuality, masturbation, fetishism, tidal law, voyeurism, exhibitionism etc.

The story of two women who fled from East Germany to West Germany.

The janitor of an apartment complex pays a visit to a resident and things get uncomfortable.

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined under the title “Küche, Theater, Krankenhaus” (Kitchen, Theatre, Krankenhaus). Students Lilly Grote, Irina Hoppe and Christine Domkowski took turns at doing the camerawork, sound and editing, supported by film editing lecturer Heide Breitel. [...] Lilly Grote’s film Beobachtungen auf Station 33 was made at the Urban-Krankenhaus hospital in Kreuzberg and doesn’t follow an individual person but rather the patients and nurses there during their everyday work. (Frederik Lang)

Neumann made this film as a young lecturer with some students in the visual communication department at the Hamburg Art University. A film about the areas of application of the various microphones.

Two professional bums in search of true love.

This 1978 studio production of the prologue to Wagner's masterpiece is the only segment of the famous Salzburg Festival/Metropolitan Opera productions, first seen in the 1960s, that made it to film. Based on one of those original productions, Georges Wakhevitch produced stage settings and transformations that supported Karajan's concept with every possible means. Herbert Von Karajan's staging is in the epic style of another age, emphasizing the dignity of the gods rather than their all too human failings. With the singers - foremost among them Peter Schreier - Karajan had an ensemble that fully conformed to his intentions.

They leave their home country with the intention of working in Germany for a year or two, hoping that this time will be enough to bring them the prosperity they long for. Then they realize that the time was not enough and they set a new deadline. This is how most ‘guest workers’ begin to experience the rupture of a life whose planning overwhelms them. One of them: Mehmet Turan.

A documentary film about the citizens' initiatives and protests by various segments of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany against the planned nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Gorleben from 1977 to 1979.

Short film about the well known sea-route.

Berlin 1923: A murder case shakes the city. Carpenter Elli poisoned her husband because he wanted to end her love relationship with Grete. For the tortured Elli, the deed is like an act of liberation.

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

Comedy by Walter Bockmayer.

A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.

Documentary about French film actress and director Delphine Seyrig featuring an interview filmed in 1977.

Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

This filmed documentary of the modern Olympic Games begins with the 1896 games and continues through the 1972 Munich games. The movie makes it clear that the original intent of the Olympic movement has long since been subverted to nationalistic and commercial ends.