Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important German artists. The filmmakers accompanied Immendorff over a period of two years – until his death in May 2007. The artist had been living for nine years knowing that he was terminally ill with ALS. The film shows how Immendorff continued to work with unabated energy and how he tried not to let himself be restrained by his deteriorating health.

Ich. Immendorff

2007

Night and Fog

8.2

1956

Movie

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Night and Fog

1956

8.2

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

6.7

2008

Movie

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

2008

6.7

No Image

That World Is Gone

Movie

Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neighborhood, and her block was empty. Federally-funded urban renewal had arrived in Charlottesville, scattering dozens of families like Kathy's. The once-vibrant African American community, built by formerly enslaved men and women who had secured a long-denied piece of the American dream, disappeared.

That World Is Gone

White Winter

10.0

2022

Movie

In southern Germany, winter can still be admired in all its glory every year. With its white coat of snow and icicles and myriads of small crystals that look like geometric works of art. In the valleys and on the slopes the snow is still so thick every year that the alpine huts are snowed in up to the windows. Cows and dairymen are safe in their farms at lower altitudes. But not the wild creatures of the mountains! They need strategies to survive the cold season and to defy snow masses, cold and ice. And some seem to do it so easily that they even raise their young in the middle of winter. But how do animals, plants and fungi cope with the annually recurring ice age, which from our perspective is a time of need? The many adaptations in nature prove that winter is an integral part of the natural cycle of the year and the living environment of species. They are adapted to cold and frost. That is why the animals and plants at the edge of the Alps suffer particularly from climate change!

White Winter

2022

10.0

Liberators Take Liberties

4.0

1992

Movie

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, due largely to the shame attached to rape in German culture at that time.

Liberators Take Liberties

1992

4.0

In the Grip of Gazprom

8.0

2023

Movie

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.

In the Grip of Gazprom

2023

8.0

Germany: A Summer's Fairytale

6.8

2006

Movie

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.

Germany: A Summer's Fairytale

2006

6.8

Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära

7.0

2021

Movie

The film shines a light onto federal chancellor Angela Merkel and her now ending 16-year-long tenure. An era, not an episode. And a vagarious relationship history between the chancellor and the Germans. Who has changed whom here?

Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära

2021

7.0

Schwarz, Rot, Gold und Fußballfieber

2015

Movie

Documentary about the German football team at the 1990's World Cup in Italy.

Schwarz, Rot, Gold und Fußballfieber

2015

Allesandersplatz

2021

Movie

Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place for new visions and concepts of city - a place where everything is different than before?

Allesandersplatz

2021