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Claus Dürscheidt

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Claus Dürscheidt is not primarily known as an actor or director; instead, he is a prominent linguist and professor. His career has been focused on the field of linguistics, particularly in the areas of grammar and syntax in German language studies. Dürscheidt has authored and co-authored multiple academic texts and research papers, contributing significantly to the understanding and teaching of the German language. As such, there is no notable filmography or awards related to acting or directing attributed to his name.

Films

Antarctica

Antarctica

By Alexander Schüler, Claus Dürscheidt

2003 | 76 min | Documentary

With a 15-meter-long sailing yacht, two German filmmakers travel from the southern tip of South America around Cape Horn through the Drake Passage to Antarctica and back. In January 2003, during the Antarctic summer, Claus Dürscheid and Alexander Schüler made a trip to the Antarctic. The film was created from the unforgettable impressions and pictures of this voyage. They talk to the inhabitants of the seemingly hostile continent, researchers and tourism employees who work there and explore the ...

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Rendezvous

Rendezvous

2005 | 95 min | Love & Sex

Shot on video with dynamic hand-held camerawork and a high volume of scathing dialogue, RENDEZVOUS is the debut of self-taught filmmaker Alexander Schüler. The film follows two couples. Without their respective partners' knowledge, all four set up dates with a person of the other couple. The swapped partners unexpectedly run into each other, and all hell breaks loose as societal conventions are challenged and deep-rooted resentment comes to the fore…

Echoes of Home

Echoes of Home

2007 | 81 min | Independent

What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodeler? What connects the head tone of a Tuvan nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist? The answer is: The Voice. Against a backdrop of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes, "Echoes of Home" enters the wondrous sonic world of three exceptional Swiss vocal artists. Their universe of sound extends far beyond what we would describe as singing. As they explore local and foreign traditions, the powerful mountain landscape ...

The Dust of Modern Life

The Dust of Modern Life

2021 | 81 min | Documentary

Liêm is a member of the Sedang, an ethnic minority group in Vietnam. Following tradition, he and other men go into the jungle for a spiritual cleansing, subsisting only on what the forest offers them. In the past, when he made the trip with his father, they fed on wild animals, such as monkeys, wild cats, or deer. Nowadays, deforestation has driven these animals away, and so Liêm is forced to catch rats and frogs, which the group (and film crew) consume. "The Vietnamese jungle is changing, and ...

Winter

Winter

2014 | 29 min | Documentary

Landscapes change and people change with them. This happens over centuries and decades, but sometimes also in the fleeting moment of transition from night to day. Then everything changes and nothing remains as it was. "The snow hid everything beneath itself, until people finally forgot." Director Martin Prinoth (DIE GESCHÖPFE DES VESUV), born in Bolzano, is a graduate of the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. He is a member of the German-Italian artist collective YOVO! YOVO! and co-founder ...

Lenz

Lenz

2006 | 93 min | Drama

Filmmaker Lenz leaves his hometown of Berlin to explore the background of Georg Büchner's fragment “Lenz” in the Vosges mountains. But soon he exchanges the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional terrain: driven by the desire to see his son Noah, he sets off for the winter sports resort of Zermatt in the Swiss Alps. There, with Noah's help, he arranges a meeting with his ex-wife Natalie, whom he still loves. A small idyll blossoms in the rediscovered closeness to his son and in ...

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

2013 | 84 min | Documentary

As a result of several accidents at the Mayak nuclear facility, which has been operating for almost 60 years in isolation from the outside world, the surrounding regions and their inhabitants have been repeatedly contaminated with radiation. The people in the affected areas, live as if in a forgotten world. The film tells the stories of the people who live and survive in it. Originally, student director Sebastian Mez wanted to make a film about the reactor accident in Fukushima, but during his research ...

Soulscapes: Spiritual Places in Scotland

Soulscapes: Spiritual Places in Scotland

2023 | 56 min | Documentary

Scotland is a region full of secrets and beguiling beauty. Since filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner first traveled to Scotland in 1987, this country has cast a deep spell over him. Here he also encountered millennia-old traces of European spirituality that he had not known before: the sun temples of the megalithic period, "holy places" of a pagan nature religion, the belief in fairies, a nature-loving Celtic Christianity and landscapes in which one could experience "fulfilled solitude". Scotland became a kind ...

Thinking like a mountain

Thinking like a mountain

2019 | 91 min | Documentary

They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.

Farewell Halong

Farewell Halong

2017 | 98 min | Documentary

The 46-year old Nguyen Van Cuong and his family live on a self-made cabin built on a raft offshore in Northern Vietnam's Ha Long Bay. For him life on the water is pretty normal - his family has slept, cooked, and worked here for generations. The Vietnamese Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 and welcomes millions of tourists from all over the world every year. "The thematic superstructure speaks volumes, even though, or perhaps precisely because Duc has remained ...

The Boat God of the Lakeside Sports Club

The Boat God of the Lakeside Sports Club

2006 | 82 min | Independent

As part of a job creation scheme, the central character Enki (played by Steffen Scheumann) works as a handyman at Wendisch-Rietz lakeside sports club. The voice over, however, insists that we grasp the most everyday activities (such as painting bricks, rowing competitions, standing around on the jetty) as mythical events and Herr Enkert as Enkidu. Which, due to the vastly diverging conceptions, is funny – as funny as Bramkamp’s films – although not always visible at first glance – fundamentally are. ...