Christian Petzold Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The...

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss

"Où en êtes-vous ?" (Where do you stand today?) is a project initiated by the Centre Pompidou, which commissions its guest filmmakers to...

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could...

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

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

Portraits of students of Berlin Film School.

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

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