Christian Petzold Movies

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at...

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

Laura's life is upended when she is in a car crash with her boyfriend who is killed. Laura wanders into the house and life of a family of strangers,...

Portraits of students of Berlin Film School.

Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of...

Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don’t own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men...

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are...

Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings...

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany.

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”,...

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

Short film made by a group of young directors in Berlin.

Bruno S., musician and actor in several films by Werner Herzog (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek), leads us round along the former front lines in Berlin. A...