Andreas Dresen Movies

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

GDR, the last working day of an industrial worker between loud machines, shower cabins and life prospects agains all reason.

A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported...

Susanne and Dieter are 20 years old. They have just got a Baby. Family life could start now, but Dieter has to join the army. The film accompanies...

A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at...

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.

For more than thirty years, Andreas Dresen has been exploring the question of what makes someone German. Without resorting to patriotism, Dresen's...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the...

Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the...

A new dramedic documentary about what politics and democracy mean when your working in the rough business of parlamentarian tasks, assemblies and...

Spring 1990, Berlin: Young Niyazi of Turkish descent works at McDonald's in West Berlin and wants to return to Istanbul as soon as possible. He has...

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is...

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...

A desolate provincial railway station and six People waiting for the late connecting train to the main station. About itchy feet and the longing of...