Peer Raben Movies

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the...

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole...

Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross.

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power,...