Sudwestfunk Movies

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt about New Wave music.

This is a German version of Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town.

Documentary focusing on the thrash metal band Kreator but also exploring the economic and social situation of Essen at the time.

Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly existence of Peter O'Hey and his family is shaken one d...

Vesely’s study on changing urbanity claims that "the Espresso has a democratic touch." Italy has expanded into Munich and instead of beer hall cellars...

In his film, Rosa von Praunheim approaches the famous communist theater director Erwin Piscator by developing irreverent improvisations in the spirit...

Documentary about Curt Goetz.

Dutch pop singer and actor Bruce Low talks about his school days.

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the 20...

Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally,...

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987),this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a...

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

On June 10, 1944, the SS murdered nearly the entire population of the French village of Oradour. The ruins still stand, the population is buried in th...

The first part of the film shows parallels between Christianity and Marxism. The second part describes the influence of both the Judeo-Christian backg...

Max and Fay meet on a train. The two become emotionally close. She dreams of him as a hero. Max would like to see her as Marylin Monroe or Marlene Die...