Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She′s alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new...

Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape. Japanese gardens are often...

A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.

"Highway 40 West" (1980/81) is the first of a series of documentaries by Hartmut Bitomsky (born 1942 in Bremen) which brought him international fame....

“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discourse of images meet

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

The two-part film by Hartmut Bitomsky is an "essay film with a plot." It revolves around the transportation of books that are meant to go from Munich...

Documentary about the films of John Ford.