This tragic love story relates ten decisive years (1796 - 1806) in the life of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin—played by Ulrich Mühe (The Lives of Others). In order to support himself, Hölderlin takes a job as the live-in tutor to the four children of the wealthy Frankfurt bank
The farmer wishes for a son, even if it is only a male hedgehog. His wish gets fulfilled! But he is afraid to get mocked by the villagers and hides Hans, his son. When Hans sees the king in danger, he saves him.
Ten-year-old Jessi has found a warm stone on the beach that glows and can even talk. It explains that it is the heart of Pirate William Red and it proceeds to tell her his story. Jessi's friends just laugh at the magic stone and act like she’s crazy.
In the fall of 1945, only a few months after WWII, 19-year-old German POW Mark Niebuhr arrives with other prisoners at a train station near Warsaw.
Unable to live in the big city, a man flees to the desert in search of peace and quiet.
This short film is available for purchase or streaming as part of the collection Animation Before Unification: 16 Shorts from East Germany.
This film documents the meeting of two painters – the older artist in front of the camera demonstrates his work to the younger artist behind the camera.
In the first part of Peter Roch's Lusatian trilogy, a fairy tale is transformed into a parable about threats to the environment.
This film deals with complex themes of the sexual and political awareness of youth within the context of Bohemian anti-fascism in 1938.
In this experimental short, Dammbeck relocates his Leipzig-based artists’ circle known as the Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon), to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland.
This story about a German family during World War II centers around four women living in a house on a river: Mother Voß (Jutta Wachowiak), her two daughters Agnes (Katrin Sass) and Lisbeth (Arianne Borbach), and her daughter-in-law Emmi (Corinna Harfouch).