For a Beautiful World

Erich Langjahr portrays two of his close friends, internationally renowned artists, Gottfried Honegger and Kurt Sigrist. Though the personalities of the two artists are as different as night and day, Langjahr discovered

Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood

Hollywood film music has its roots in Europe. Three composers who fled war and National Socialism to the USA created the sound that still shapes film music today: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman. In

Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the Filmmuseum Potsdam, which is honoring him and his team with an exhibit

Alex Kristan - Jetlag für Anfänger

Ein Hund für alle Fälle

The Mouse Police

There's been a robbery at the cheese store and mouse police agent Chester is on the case. With Friends Max and Sophie at his side the clues begin to mount and everything points to the Rocky Roquefort gang!

Weighed and Found Too Heavy

Briel's first independent production after leaving the DFFB, made for the Sender Freies Berlin. The title is a biblical reference (Daniel 5 — "you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting"). TV documentary

Pure Air of the Mountain: For All and None

In the heart of the mountain, an elusive and invisible observer witnesses an infamous spectacle. His voice comments on the sequence of events in the words of Nietzsche. In this splendid mountain landscape, a couple appea

Sie singen nur für ihn

Portrait of author Björn Treber for the 41st Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2017 literature competition in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Für Cecile - an der Westküste wartend

Two men and a woman drive towards a strange ceremony.

Ein Fall für Sie: Sonnenschein bis Mitternacht

The School Girls

Mockumentary about German schoolgirls openly talking about their scandalous sexual experiences. Some of these are illustrated through inserted vignettes. Also, a street reporter asks actual common folk about their views

John Wayne-A Life on Film

Recap of The Duke's career from its beginning in the silent era up to his final film "The Shootist".

Mirella Freni – Ein Leben für die Oper

Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

Als ich für acht Stunden verschwand

During a canoe trip, neurologist Magnus Heier suffers from sudden amnesia: for eight hours, he records nothing. Everything he does is immediately forgotten. This episode becomes the starting point for an exploration of h

Pariser Bilder für Dr. G.

Short film by Helga Fanderl

Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students

The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at politicizing the students at the technical universities and schools of engineerin

Kolle - Ein Leben für Liebe und Sex

At the end of the 1960s, in the midst of political and social turbulence between revolt and reaction, journalist and filmmaker Oswalt Kolle fights for his ideas of liberal sex education with great commitment and sometime

Spotlight off Light on for Georg Richter

Ilja Richter, showmaster of the cult programme Disco on ZDF until 1982, was considered the darling of the nation. During his television career, no one suspected that Ilja was the son of a persecuted communist resistance