Rainer Standke

The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.

On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with an unforeseen problem, as they are being alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden somewhere deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millennium bug! It's up to them to race against time to stop it before it is too late and they are doomed!

El veterano piloto germano-americano Dieter Dengler creció en una Alemania reducida a escombros debido a la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Recuerda cómo los aviones aliados bombardeaban su patria, cómo surgió entonces su admiración por los pilotos, que lo llevó a convertirse en uno de ellos. A los 18 años, Dengler emigró a América y se unió al ejército que partía para Vietnam. Durante una misión, fue derribado, cerca de Laos, y encerrado en un campo de prisioneros. Fue torturado, encadenado y encerrado en una celda de bambú, donde planeó su fuga.

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th century.

En un rincón perdido de Siberia, los hombres creen en chamanes, exorcistas, nuevos Mesías y en una leyenda que habla de un lago cuyas profundidades dejan escapar el sonido de las campanas de una catedral. Según esta leyenda, hace siglos, la ciudad de Kitesh, amenazada por una invasión mongola, fue salvada por Dios que hizo que el lago Swetloyar engullera a sus enemigos. Este documental causó cierta polémica en Rusia por presentar Siberia como una región de cultura profundamente primitiva y dominada por las supersticiones y la mística.

Uno de los desastres ecológicos más grandes del mundo se produjo tras la retirada de las tropas iraquíes de Kuwait: incontables pozos de petróleo eran pasto de las llamas y millones de litros de petróleo iban a parar al mar. Pero lo que parece el fin es tan sólo el comienzo: paisajes y ciudades devastados, campos de batalla como desiertos lunares. Ese paisaje desolado y desolador parece el hábitat natural de bacterias y escorpiones: los hombres, en cambio, condenados a un silencio infinito, fruto de todos los horrores de la guerra, parecen estar fuera de lugar.

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other, titled “The Gauls”, is of men playing rugby. This short by Werner Herzog is part of the “The French as Seen By…” series. It was initiated and sponsored by the newspaper Le Figaro, as part of the 1988 celebration of the tenth anniversary of its magazine section.

Set in the fast and loose ambience of 1947 in West Germany, this story is about Hans Kolp, an inventive, teenage urban con artist who takes advantage of an out-of-control black market where almost any Allied goods can be stolen and traded for a tidy profit. Hans learns to speak good English from an American soldier friend, and bored with school -- which is nothing more than a big room in the railroad station with only one teacher to mind all levels of students -- the enterprising Hans starts a gang of petty thieves. Armed with a stolen jeep, the youngsters deal successfully in stolen goods, with Hans doing a good impression of a G.I. Business is so good, in fact, that when someone arrives to encourage Hans to get into the big-time with stolen vehicles and U.S. Army uniforms, the first crisis comes up in the small gang. Members want to back away from that level of dangerous dealing, but Hans wants to go for broke -- a difficult decision that will determine the young con's future.