
Fritz Bauer - Death By Installments
By Ilona Ziok
2010 | 98 min | Biography
Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.


By Ilona Ziok
2010 | 98 min | Biography
Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.

By Ilona Ziok
1999 | 65 min | Documentary
An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)

2018 | 94 min | Documentary
Lies. Truth. Alternative Facts. This film analyses how the UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past was revealed by the World Jewish Congress. Ruth Beckermann documents the tangled web that ensnared former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim when he concealed two years of his wartime biography. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress against him, the denial by the Austrian political class, and the outbreak of antisemitism and patriotism which led to ...

1998 | 95 min | Documentary
As early as the 1900s, numerous occult and neo-Germanic groups emerged in Germany and Austria, claiming the dominance of the "Aryan race" on the basis of misunderstood legends and symbols. Several Nazi celebrities found additional confirmation for their world view in this. By means of rhetoric, sacral architecture and spectacular mass stagings, such as torchlight marches and solstice bonfires, such pseudo-religious content was also sunk into the subconscious of the masses. The film's central anchor ...

2018 | 102 min | Biography
The filmmaker Nils Olger suspects that his grandfather was involved in massacres in Italy during WWII. With the help of a few photos, he sets out in search of this family history. Olaf Jürgenssen, Nils Olger's grandfather, served as a medic in the SS at the end of the war. During the withdrawal from northern Italy, his unit committed a series of massacres on the civilian population. But Jürgenssen was also a photographer and he kept his negatives in an iron box. Olger uses the photographic negatives ...

1983 | 91 min | Documentary
“In my personal life I lived through different stages. There was one period determined by football, nothing but football; each Sunday we would go to see a match and I myself played in a team. Then came another period: politics. A very strong interest in politics and the attempt to understand this world that I only knew from party names so far. Contrary to today, people at the time had a very good feeling for who was a Jew. Today, with so few Jews around this is no longer so. Types like myself, with ...

2018 | 60 min | Documentary
They were radicals: two young people who became fundamentalists during puberty. They gave up their entire lives and themselves for it. Based on their accounts of their experiences, the film poses what is probably one of the most burning questions of our time: Why do people become radical? What lead young people to join radical ideologies? How does hatred develop?

1993 | 92 min | Documentary
How does art influence politics – and how much does politics influence art? This question is particularly pressing in the case of Arno Breker, a sculptor whose works played a central role in National Socialism. Breker was Adolf Hitler's official state artist and created monumental sculptures that embodied the ideal of National Socialist aesthetics. Between 1936 and 1945, Arno Breker worked almost exclusively for the architect Albert Speer and his plans for the redesign of Berlin into the “world ...

1989 | 55 min | Comedy
One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, pulled out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the Führer's bunker as it really was. Shot in just under 16 hours in one take, in a bunker from the Second World War, 100 YEARS OF ADOLF HITLER shows incest and intrigue, noise and rioting – the last hour in the Führer's bunker as it really was. 100 YEARS ADOLF HITLER is Schlingensief's most important and most acclaimed film to date. It earns him the reputation among ...

1996 | 112 min | Documentary
Testimony by former Wehrmacht soldiers recorded by Ruth Beckermann remains horrifying today. A controversial photography exhibit about atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II inspired Ruth Beckermann to interview soldiers. What are their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion. "Between interrogation and pity. I must keep a distanced view. How do you film enemies?" (Ruth Beckermann’s Shooting ...

2018 | 56 min | Documentary
This small town has hosted right-wing rock concerts in the past, but now, remarkably, a diverse group of anti-right activists has emerged to challenge local right-wing organizations. The film offers new insights into how the societal shift to the right took place and how a right-wing parallel world that was able to establish itself in town and how creative forms of protest can flourish.

2017 | 47 min | Documentary
Gay left-wing activist and disaster relief volunteer Ortwin Passon navigates between a military-like bourgeois world and wild sex parties. For a while now, he has been writing a dissertation on barebacking (anal sex without condoms) and the political and judicial implications of unprotected intercourse among men in Germany. Passon, who is HIV-positive, wants to obtain a legal demarcation between "unreflective risk behavior without intent" (unsafe sex) and "intentional, risk-conscious, consensual, ...