Christian Petzold Movies

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...

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...

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...

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

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

2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld, and production designer K. D. Gruber

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

Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.

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

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

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

Portraits of students of Berlin Film School.

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

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

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...

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

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss