Hanns Zischler Movies

A short commissioned piece on 'famous last words' set in WWII.

Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who...

The day begins like many others in the Schwarz family's life: doctor Nora is preparing breakfast, one-year-old Jella is playing on her blanket,...

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a better post war Germany. However, he gets quickly...

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with...

Former GDR secret service agent Wolfgang Dreher is sentenced to life imprisonment. While still in the courtroom, he threatens to wake up his sleepers...

Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic car accident. To get some distance, Sophie...

By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time,...

Already as a student of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, rebelled against the teachings of his professors and placed his...

From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and...

A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene dramatic comedy.

The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recognized Soviet Russia. And so German-Soviet relations...

In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a...

A senegalese man searches for a german woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also his lover.