Irmin Schmidt

In 1968, musician Irmin Schmidt and friends founded the avant-garde band "Can", which achieved worldwide fame. Schmidt also made a name for himself as a composer for films by Wim Wenders. In this documentary, the charismatic sound tinkerer looks back on his life and career.

Apenas una semana después de la apertura sin precedentes de fronteras, Angela Merkel, el ministro del Interior De Maizière, el canciller Altmaier, el ministro de Economía Gabriel, el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Steinmeier y el primer ministro bávaro Seehofer, idearon una controvertida solución que jamás llegaron a poner en práctica, pues nadie quería asumir la responsabilidad política que su ejecución hubiese comportado. Los sucesos que tuvieron lugar durante estas nueve semanas de 2015 han continuado influyendo en los procesos políticos en Alemania y Europa hasta nuestros días.

The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. Krautrock, Part 1 focuses on German progressive rock, popularly known as Krautrock, from in and around the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany. Artist featured include Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust and others.

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Heinz Gödicke (Ronals Zehrfeld) is the chief commissioner of the People's Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two bestial murdered children are found in the forest. The investigator tries to get involved in the perpetrators - a rarely used method at the People's Police - and the perpetrator so on the track. The Stasi-Major Witt (Florian Panzer) is no friend of this procedure and leaves the commissioner only reluctantly free hand in the investigation. The matter does not go to the authorities fast enough and is then simply put to the files. When another murder occurs, it becomes clear that Gödicke was much closer to the enlightenment of the act than everyone thought.

Nina Hausen, head of an escort agency, is attacked by a stranger on her nocturnal walk with the dog in the forest. Only with difficulty can she escape him by touching him with her car and seriously injuring him. On the way back she finds in her car a bag of diamonds - apparently the ransom from a case in which a boy was kidnapped. Under pressure from a colleague reports Nina Although the robbery of the police, the diamonds but suppresses them. But that's where their problems really start ...

Finn, un fotógrafo de fama internacional, lleva una vida trepidante que muchos envidian. Pero, de repente, sufre una crisis existencial y decide abandonarlo todo. Desde Düsseldorf llega a Palermo, donde se cruza en su camino un misterioso asesino. A partir de ese momento, empieza para él una nueva vida. (FILMAFFINITY)

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wants to leave her three young children to join him in death by wandering out into the snowy deserts of Lapland. As she wanders through the snow, Elizabeth discovers the story of Aron and Ina, a couple who overcame dark secrets and over-controlling family members to be with each other.

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a " Godfather" makes Zach an offer he can not refuse , the wedding between Francesco's daughter and Zach son bursts , and his wife threatened behind his affair to come up with kiosk owner Hilde , which lasts at least 18 or older to ...

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.

Alemania Federal, el doctor Bertholi se ve involucrado por la mala fortuna en una acción terrorista y resulta herido de gravedad en el cráneo por la policía. Las secuelas le dejan parcialmente inútil física y psíquicamente, sin motricidad y con el juicio nublado por el shock sufrido. Cuando empieza a recuperarse despierta en él un sentimiento de venganza hacia la policía.

El periodista alemán Felix Winter recorre los Estados Unidos buscando temas para escribir un libro, pero como ni siquiera consigue empezarlo, su editor cancela el contrato. Cuando Félix decide regresar a Alemania, en el aeropuerto conoce a una mujer, y como no hay vuelos hasta el día siguiente pasa la noche con ella. La mujer desaparece, pero le deja un recado: que vaya con su hija Alicia, de nueve años, a Amsterdam para reunirse con ella.

The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.

Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.

Holger Czukay - Bajo Irmin Schmidt - Teclado Michael Karoli - Guitarra Jaki Liebezeit - Bateria Damo Suzuki - Voz

Peter F. Schneider's 1968 abstract political satire.