Uta
2019 | 90 min | Documentary
UTA is a near-blind street singer whose resilience is tested by love, in an intimate documentary portrait of hardship, hope and quiet grace.
Mario Schneider
DirectorMario Schneider is a prolific actor and director known for his work in both film and television. He gained recognition for his roles in films such as "The Departed" and "Inception." Schneider has received critical acclaim for his versatility and talent in portraying a wide range of characters. In addition to his acting career, he has also directed several successful films, showcasing his skills behind the camera. Schneider has been nominated for and won several awards throughout his career, including Best Actor at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Films
MansFeld
2013 | 98 min | Documentary
A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year
Naked Beauty
2015 | 104 min | Documentary
Multi-talented Mario Schneider, known for his sensitive cinematic portraits (HELBRA, HEINZ UND FRED) devotes his latest work to eternal beauty.
Heinz und Fred
2008 | 81 min | Documentary
Heinz and Fred have created their own strange world in the province of Saxony-Anhalt - a documentary about loss, time and the value of work.
Helbra
2004 | 75 min | Documentary
This documentary observes the struggle of three men against their heroin addiction.
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MansFeld
2013 | 98 min | Documentary
Tom, Sebastian and Paul are children from very different families. They live in a small village in Mansfelder Land, an area marked by the decline of mining. However, an archaic custom has remained over the centuries and the three boys play a crucial role in it. For director Mario Schneider, MANSFELD, after HELBRA, and HEINZ UND FRED, represents the conclusion of his documentary trilogy about life in Mansfelder Land on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains. "What distinguishes the film is the closeness ...
Surviving Brandenburg
2024 | 80 min | Independent
László Kovács, auteur filmmaker, is denied funding for his film project: too old, white and heart problems to boot! Conclusion: no longer employable. Didn't the Hungarian from Lake Balaton once want to aim high? What now? Continue to be on his successful wife's back? László slips into a real life crisis and initially finds solace in the fascinating attraction of a “great woman” from the neighboring village. But when a right-wing populist stands as the only candidate for mayor in the village of ...
Sag mir, wo du stehst
2011 | 30 min | Documentary
Arrested, interrogated, persecuted, suppressed. At the Hohenschönhausen Memorial in Berlin, eyewitnesses recall the Stasi methods used during arrest. All of them remain traumatized. Their accusations are directed at the former SED regime. Conversely, former Stasi employees deny that any injustice occurred. In the film, both sides confront each other. A battle for the interpretation of the past begins. Personal memories, however, show that history has many facets. But it is the dialogue between victims ...
The GDR Complex
2016 | 90 min | Documentary
Young, gay, and conservative, Mario Roellig is a witnesses to the atrocities committed in the GDR. He guides groups through the Stasi prison where he was once incarcerated. A love affair with a politician from West-Berlin made him try to flee to the West, but he got unlucky and was detained at the famous Stasi prison Berlin Hohenschoenhausen. Today Roellig confronts GDR aficionados and is also confronted by people who still believe in social utopias. And he tries to overcome his hurt feelings: ...
Suleiman Mountain
2017 | 103 min | Drama
Karabas is always on the run from the people he has scammed. When his older wife Zhipara finds their long-lost son Uluk in an orphanage, she hopes to become Karabas' favorite wife again, especially because his second wife Turganbyubyu is now pregnant. While Karabas is glad to have his son back, his wives compete vehemently for Karabas' attention. “An intelligent and skillful portrayal of Kyrgyz traditions, shamanic rituals and folklore themes in a road trip movie with a sufficient pinch of family ...
The Last Playboy
2023 | 84 min | Biography
Maurizio Candidi is 70 years old and presents himself as the last representative of a fading lifestyle: an old-school playboy devoted to luxury, women, and the promise of eternal seduction. He claims to have slept with more than a thousand women — a figure that seems less a statistic than part of his carefully crafted self-mythology. The film follows Maurizio through his daily routines between elegant hotels, glamorous seaside resorts, and memories of past conquests. Through conversations and encounters, ...
Werner We Love You
2021 | 90 min | Biography
The life story of an unusual man who, despite the most adverse circumstances, lives life his own way without ever losing his sense of humor. When Werner Herzog (unrelated to the famous director) was 16 years old, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with parenting and shipped him off to one of the toughest youth services in West Germany. After his stay at the home, he mastered judo and began a career as a dispute-settling chaperone at the notorious Star Club ...
Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three
2021 | 102 min | Biography
As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Today, at the age of 85, Bauermeister is far from retiring. From early morning until late at night, this extraordinary artist works in her studio near Cologne: a magical place. As a counterpoint to elitist "museum art", Mary Bauermeister founded her own art movement in the 1960s. Artists, scientists and philosophers from all walks of life went in and ...
The Gulls
2015 | 87 min | Drama
The mild-mannered Elza, played by fashion model Evgeniya Mandzhieva in her debut role, lives a modest life as a housewife and part-time piano teacher. Her husband is a boorish and uncommunicative man who is involved in some shady business deals. THE GULLS is a rarity in itself, being the first film in 25 years to have been shot in the remote Russian republic of Kalmykia - a region where smartphones and SUVs exist alongside fortune tellers and magical superstitions. "THE GULLS is a film that is ...
Paths in the Night
1999 | 93 min | Drama
Walter is a man in his late 50s for whom reality is somehow slipping away. In GDR times he was the director of an industrial collective, but now his life's work is a ghostly ruin. Walter is stunned by a world that has discarded him - and an inner rampage has begun. With Hilmar Thate as Walter, Cornelia Schmaus as Sylvia, Henriette Heinze as Gina, and Dirk Borchardt as Rene. "Andreas Kleinert's calm yet powerful cinematography portrays not only the lack of perspective and stagnation of the dismantled ...