Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

IT specialist Victor Faber makes a living securing computers for large corporations and banks. His reclusive private life is upended when he falls in...

While working on "Deutschlandbilder" (1983), Hartmut Bitomsky was examining film material produced by the Nazi regime when he came across an...

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

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.

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982) is an unconventional essay film by Harun Farocki that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband...

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

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

“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....

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training...

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

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...

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

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