Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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...

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

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.

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

A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

“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....

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

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

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women,...

The film documents a debate about early 20th century films, mainly 1910 to 1920, from short news reels to excerpts from full-length movies. At...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.