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"At a time which is not ours, this film was found on a heap of scrap metal, close to Nanterre. It tells of the desparate attempt of a group of people to adjust to the rules others have imposed upon them."

Aging Duke of Altair, a charming widower, plans a third marriage and enlists his son Edgar to choose among three noblewomen. Unexpectedly, Perpetua, young, spirited daughter of the late stewardб returns after a decade, instantly captivating both father and son. As their affections collide, the Duke realizes he cannot stand in his son’s way. In a moment of wise selflessness, he withdraws from Perpetua’s pursuit and instead courts Rosabel Fleming, honoring both tradition and his heir’s happiness.

A car drives through Schumann street from its beginning to its end. The drive was filmed in one take, end and beginning of the film being identical with the end and the beginning of the street. The length of the street and the length of the film strip become identical by an apparent equation: space becomes time, space distance becomes time distance/duration.

Max Frisch's famous parable about the cowardice of opportunists: Mr. Biedermann brings two arsonists into his home and pretends that they are his best friends.

Short film about two vagrants, their encounter, an argument, and their parting ways.

A film about the feeling of beeing under attack.

An attempt to celebrate Christmas in New York.

A short film

Documentary film by Strobel and Tichawsky.

The film depicts the daily routine of a wage laborer looking for work every day, who is at the lowest social level of the worker hierarchy. The commentary partly takes up the language of the dock workers and blends wonderfully with the black and white photographs. The two together result in a precisely constructed reportage about work and leisure in the port environment and its social conditions. Three moving film sequences interrupt the photo sequence and thematize the photographic form.

Documentary about Japan's road to democracy

"I thought the song was great and wanted to make a film about it. Then I came across a quote by Sartre. I liked that, too, and then the film was finished. In colour, of course. You can only make films in colour!" (Helmut Wietz) – An early music clip that does away with gender roles to some extent.

Documentary film.

A small town in West Germany. Material for an exhibition with documents from the Nazi era was stolen from Herbert Geerts, only the negatives of the photos did not fall into the hands of the perpetrator. Geerts is found murdered and the group of people who were incriminated by the documents are suspects. Detective Weber takes on the case, which turns out to be "a case of fireworks", and follows the trail of a Nazi criminal...

A young gas station attendant falls in love with the flower seller across the street. Every day he buys flowers from her until one day his apartment is full of them. So he decides to write her a letter. Because he doesn't really succeed, he tears it up again. He sees no way out but to drown himself, but that doesn't work either...

Irene and Klaus Bach are happily married. But living closely together with Klaus' parents causes a few problems. Added to this is jealousy of his wife's professional success. She leaves Klaus and the child. With strong support from Täve and Atze, the family tries to bring the "little starlet" back home and reconcile the young couple.

Kren’s last film to include any direct reference to Otto Muehl is 12/66: Cosinus Alpha, a 10-minute film that completes a cycle of elaborate sensual montages and materials.

TV-Documentary

The sad morality tale of the Holstein blonde Renate, who, after being raped, leaves the farm to become a prostitute. In Hamburg she shoots the murderous pimp, in Instanbul she falls in with drug dealers, temporarily she falls for a released convict...

Documentary about the production rates, for the german TV.

One of many commemoration ceremonies, eleven years after the GDR uprising. The report combines a Saarland politician’s thoughtful speech with idyllic shots of a high-spirited population: at open air swimming pools, playing cards or on camping sites. “Do you know what we commemorate today?” the reporter asks. The answers are deeply irritating.

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

Activist short about the Vietnam war.

Documentary about the migrant workers, for the german TV.

Becoming a tenant in a new-build apartment - what a lucky coincidence, especially as it is also located in Berlin! But every person is an individual and every family has its own peculiarities. In this respect, there are initially various communication difficulties and adjustment problems between the tenants of a house; only between Isetta and Robert does the ice seem to melt in time, while with the other tenants it takes an extraordinary event, a kind of horse cure, which takes them on the path - so much desired in socialism - from the I to the We and to a unity called a house community.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden

Short educational film about wounds.

Swiss journalist Peter Schmid describes his documentary as a sociological study. In his film, he takes a look behind the facade of St. Pauli. He contrasts the small group that earns a living in the entertainment industry with the many people who call St. Pauli home. The lives of the vast majority of St. Pauli’s residents are as middle-class as in any other district of Hamburg.

Short Film by Michael Klier for a series of shorts for the German TV Station SFB.

The film shows birds and mammals of Spitzbergen: The snow bunting, Phalaropus fulicarius, Stercorarius parasiticus, the red throated loon, the arctic gull, the puffin, the black guillemot, the loon and the common guillemot are photographed at the hatching place. In addition reindeer, arctic foxes and musk oxen are shown. The voices of seven kinds of animals are heard.

The story of a love affair: from meeting and the great ease at the beginning to everyday married life and separation at the end. Documentary observations (of passers-by on the street, newly in love, first without, then with children) and dramatized scenes (of marriage and divorce) are mixed, casting different actors in the roles of the man and woman.