Fête des Vignerons 1999

Der Sohn des Babymachers

The Engineer’s Voice

A man’s voice from offscreen. He lists individual words, has problems of articulation. At first these are abstract terms, the screen stays black. Sky, street, village and house, however, are accompanied by suitable image

At the Top of the Stairs

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

Loin des quartiers Nord

Des blouses pas si blanches

Gesicht des Bahnhofs

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the compose

Beyond the Depths

The young Kiara lives with her mother Ariane. They both share a secret which has been buried for years. When Nathan, the son of Ariane's partner moves in, the secret comes to the surface.

The Brigade-Leader’s Hat

Young construction worker Ralf Reider leaves his home village Katzsprung in the Rhön mountains during the "Berlin Initiative". In the capital, he wants to earn enough money in construction to build his own house for his

Loonies at Large

This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle h

The Father's Silence

«In actuality, National Socialism simply didn't exist: both the perpetrators and their victims remained silent about it,» says the protagonist of Mariella Santibáñez» documentary film, Mrs. Solomon. Just a few years befo

Des Anderen Last

Short film about Stephan, a child with disabilities.

Des fleurs pour Algernon

After a successful experiment on Algernon, a mouse whose level of intelligence thanks to that procedure dramatically increased, the scientists decided to go further - the next "guinea pig" is Charles, a mentally disabled

Melodie des Schicksals

A mediocre conductor unscrupulously steals his friend's—a piano teacher's—wife. At first, the piano teacher wants to shoot his rival, but then, surprisingly, he abandons his thoughts of revenge—a piano concerto he compos

The Master of Death

A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate provocations by a superior officer who is competing with him for the lov

Bien des choses

"Pensées d'Alexandrie", "Bises du Caire" ... It's summer. They took their car, drove in coaches, flew in planes and visited camera in shoulder strap some distant country bristling with monuments and other "things to see"

One Bright Afternoon

In a small French village under German occupation, Marceau and Gustave, two carefree and resourceful young friends, lead a mundane life. One day, a trip that promised to be ordinary gradually takes a dramatic turn... Be

Bread and Games

Ferdinand rents a cellar for 200 euros a month. But that’s still too much. The arrival of the Olympic Games in Paris makes him dream big, but he only gets a temporary job at the Stade de France and gets swallowed up by t

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money

How Not to Rob a Department Store

To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.