Volker Koepp Movies

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent...

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

Shortly behind the once East Prussian, now Russian town of Tilsit, the Memel splits into a delta. The widest arms of this delta, the Ruß and...

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany.

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

Seventh and last Wittstock film.

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

In early 1945, the mother Elisabeth Paetzold flees from the Red Army from West Prussia towards the west with the two oldest of her four sons. Taking...

The "Curonian Spit" is a 98 kilometre long sand dune peninsula that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The width of the spit between...

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

In his film "Berlin-Stettin", well-known documentary film director Volker Koepp embarks on a journey to the places of his own past: Born in 1944 in...

Biographical search for traces of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in Georgia. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917,...