Arpad Bondy

Movies

Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora
Original Music Composer
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century. Von Bode, under pressure from the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, argued that the wax sculpture was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
The Microsoft Dilemma
Producer
Microsoft is generally considered the dinosaur of the digital age. However, the US Corporation is more powerful today than ever before. The power of its monopoly is nowhere more apparent than in Europe: from Finland to Portugal, from Ireland to Greece, the information technology of every state administration and its institutions (military, police, fiscal authorities etc.) is based on Microsoft programmes. Since digital systems are constantly expanding and increasing in importance, countries are becoming more and more dependent on this single company. This dependence causes continually rising costs and prevents technical progress in state authorities. It systematically undermines European procurement and competition laws, it leads inevitably to the company having an overwhelming political influence, while it exposes state IT systems along with citizens’ data to a high technical and political security risk. Is Europe’s digital sovereignty at stake?
The Microsoft Dilemma
Director
Microsoft is generally considered the dinosaur of the digital age. However, the US Corporation is more powerful today than ever before. The power of its monopoly is nowhere more apparent than in Europe: from Finland to Portugal, from Ireland to Greece, the information technology of every state administration and its institutions (military, police, fiscal authorities etc.) is based on Microsoft programmes. Since digital systems are constantly expanding and increasing in importance, countries are becoming more and more dependent on this single company. This dependence causes continually rising costs and prevents technical progress in state authorities. It systematically undermines European procurement and competition laws, it leads inevitably to the company having an overwhelming political influence, while it exposes state IT systems along with citizens’ data to a high technical and political security risk. Is Europe’s digital sovereignty at stake?
Die Spur der Troika - Macht ohne Kontrolle
Writer
Harald Schumann talks to people from every walk of life to understand the situation in Greece. From ordinary shopkeepers to people from within the Troika.
Die Spur der Troika - Macht ohne Kontrolle
Director
Harald Schumann talks to people from every walk of life to understand the situation in Greece. From ordinary shopkeepers to people from within the Troika.
Staatsgeheimnis Bankenrettung
Director
24 Hours Berlin
Director
Alone in Four Walls
Music
In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're finally allowed to act as children, but for some of them, this new life proves to be a challenge. This documentary tells the stories of several of these adolescents, who must endure separation from their families and who, upon release, are unlikely to be forgiven for their crimes.
Lola and Billy the Kid
Original Music Composer
Murat, a Turkish gay youth living in Berlin’s Turkish ghetto, decides to come out to his family. What he doesn’t know yet is that his family has even bigger secrets to hide.
Lola and Billy the Kid
Music
Murat, a Turkish gay youth living in Berlin’s Turkish ghetto, decides to come out to his family. What he doesn’t know yet is that his family has even bigger secrets to hide.
Bandyta
Editor
Bastard depicts the distress of needy children and the love of a nurse and a hard boiled criminal. A film from Polish director Maciej Dejczer and actor Til Schweiger’s first international film.
A Tickle in the Heart
Editor
The retired life in Florida rescued, the Epstein brothers do again what they do best and have practiced for a lifetime music. A Tickle in the Heart captures the past, present, and future of the remarkable Epstein brothers - Max, Julie and Willie - Klezmer music legends on a joyous international comeback tour. This is a cinematic party with three of the funniest men in the show business. The Epsteins are natural performers, and their sense of life, music and family as they tour through places they love.
Ernesto, presto!
Music
Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.
Ernesto, presto!
Editor
Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.
Ernesto, presto!
Director
Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.
Den Teufel am Hintern geküßt
Director
The astonishing life-story of “Lili Marleen“ composer Norbert Schultze.
Der Pornojäger - Eine Hatz zwischen Lust und Politik
Music
Somewhere in Hackney
Producer
A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.
Somewhere in Hackney
Music
A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.
Somewhere in Hackney
Director
A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.
From the Family of Reptiles
Original Music Composer
A commissioned work for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY OF REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes. After all with Michael Ballhaus as the cinematographer. Ute (Katja Wulff), an 8 year old girl, constantly runs away from home and the youth center to escape into her own world. She spends many hours at the zoo and especially in front of the crocodil compound. Monika Brehm (Lisa Kreuzer), the kindergarten teacher, tries to find an entrance into Ute’s world. She realizes that her escapes are a form of withdrawal from her parents and the grown up world.