Christian Ziewer

Movies

The Death of the White Stallion
Director
This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally set them far apart from the people they were fighting. It was a time of upheaval: Martin Luther (1483-1556) had broken away from the Catholic Church, calling for reform, and Anabaptists in Germany, like Thomas Munzer fought on the side of the peasants (opposed by Luther). This complex age and its political and religious turmoil are summed up in a story about an attack on a small monastery whose monks used a forged document to confiscate some land from the peasants. When their wrong-doing is revealed by the monk who forged the document in the first place, the peasants attack.
Aus der Ferne sehe ich dieses Land
Writer
Film by Christian Ziewer.
Aus der Ferne sehe ich dieses Land
Director
Film by Christian Ziewer.
Der aufrechte Gang
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Der aufrechte Gang
Director
Snowdrops Bloom in September
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This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.
Snowdrops Bloom in September
Director
This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.
Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut
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Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut
Director
A Bonus for Irene
In a critique to the Berliner films that depicted labour problems always through masculine lens, Sander changes the point of view. Irene, single mother, works in a washing machine factory and has to deal with discrimination, sexual harassment and lack of solidarity.
Vor dem Feind
Short film.
Break the Power of the Manipulators
Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the publishing house Springer, particularly its control and manipulation of the news.