Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Movies

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy....

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

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors,...

The Ister is a 3000km journey to the heart of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube river on the Black Sea, to its source in the German Black Forest....

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream...

TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

Documentary film about the successful erotic film producer and author Alois Brummer. Documentary filmmaker Hans Jürgen Syberberg accompanies...

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century...

A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of...

A short film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.

This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a...

Hans Jürgen Syberberg grew up in the town of Demmin, the subject of his current film. The history of the town, in which a mass suicide with...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

Behind the pulpit of the Gothic church, speakers take turns. A thousand names are written on the rustling pages: that’s how many people...

"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives. Making a life is...

This Ecce Homo is an impressive statement of life beyond the death of an artist "of the descent of Dionysus".

The film consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The...

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.

'Mozart Requiem mit dem Finger gelesen' belongs to a group of 31 films which were made for the room 'Cave of memory' at Documenta X (1997).