Alfred Edel

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit. The main problem is that Vicky has told him she is a successful actress and happily married. She enlists the help of a gay friend to play her husband. Using a large range of characters—gay, lesbian, straight, transsexuals—the film creates a funny and touching view of family dynamics and sexuality.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.

A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which follows no linear narrative structure, at a moment when right-leaning German intellectuals argued for a coming to terms of the country’s relation with its Nazi past. Schlingensief disagreed. (MoMA)

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf to inaugurate their cinema organ. The look and feel of the film stems from the silent film era, but the camp style and over use of clichéd characters bears the trade mark of Schlingensief all over. “I love all things kitsch, like opera, and I feel inspired by music. I was interested in silent film but not a great deal”, said the director.

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

An early declaration of war on narrative cinema, using a barrage of visual and acoustic elements while at the same time juggling ironically - as he still does - with the term 'avant-garde'. A number of other preferences and obsessions were evident at an early stage, e.g. the mind-numbing habit of having his people stumbling and screaming around: life as a race track. His films likewise feature a lot of theatrical and cryptic outpourings. No wonder that they failed at the box office. No wonder either, however, that Schlingensief was attracted to theatre.

카프카의 유작 「아메리카」를 각색한 작품으로 독일에 거주하던 장 마리 스트라우브와 다니엘 위예가 함께 전성기를 누리던 시절에 만든 걸작이다. 미국으로 간 독일 청년의 모습을 통해 자본화된 문명의 황폐함을 통찰하는 모더니즘 감독들의 모던한 카프카 해석이 돋보이는 영화. (2013년 제14회 전주국제영화제)

Günther, Michael, Barny and Franz, real Munich boys, want to make their own music: Rock 'n' Roll Bavarian-style. Will they go under or make it to the top?

A thriller-comedy by Torsten Emrich.

Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful personality spoils Hartmann's vision of a glorious Casanova epic. In the end, the director realizes that all the time he wanted to make this movie to please his mother, so he decides instead to join Edel's way of having fun.

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers and drills.

Not porno, not underground film, not a good entertainment film, not documentary, not social criticism nor Hollywood boulevard film or horror show: rather a journey into the midst of night, a hell ride to paradise lost, into our inner self. The mystery play of a historical dance of death in the black studio of our phantasy, the ascetic “Trauerarbeit” (toils of mourning) on the end of an epoch, millions of dead. In old times one would have called it an epos, a poem, requiem, oratorio; an attempt to find a new German identity through film. And also about the heritage of Hitler in our present world, something about the infernal victory of quantitative democracy; about the calmness of melancholy and the thesis that Hitler can only be defeated with Richard Wagner.

방랑 음악인이자 발라드 가수인 브루노 슈트로스체크가 석방된다. 감독은 그에게 더이상 술을 마시지 말라고 경고한다. 그러나 그는 감옥 문지방을 넘자마자 모퉁이에 있는 술집에서 맥주를 마시며 바깥 세상과의 만남을 축하한다. 그는 매춘부 에바를 만나면서 새 삶을 살기로 결심한다. 그들은 에바를 학대하는 포주로부터 벗어나기 위해 이웃에 사는 노인 샤이츠씨의 조카가 주유소를 하고 있는 미국으로 도주한다. 행복한 시간도 잠시 에바는 화물 운전수와 달아나고 슈트로스체크는 추운 11월의 어느 아침, 안개가 자욱한 언덕에서 총으로 자살하고 만다.

Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

첩보 임무를 띄고 동독으로부터 도착한 스파이, 리타 뮬러. 그녀는 조직체계와는 다른 자신만의 방법으로 연합국의 기초 조사에 착수하는데... 다른 한편에선 한 창녀가 약속한 화대를 주지 않았다는 이유로 도둑질을 해 달아난다. 프랑크푸르트로 집약되는 네 가지의 독립적인 이야기가 몽타쥬 기법으로 연결되는 작품. (동숭아트센터)

남루한 행색의 소년이 어두운 동굴에서 홀로 지낸다. 어느 날, 검은 옷을 입은 남자가 소년을 밖으로 데리고 나간다. 말은 물론, 잘 걷지도 못하는 소년은 편지 한 장을 든 채 마을 한복판에 서 있게 된다. 소년의 이름은 카스파르 하우저. 사람들은 하우저에게 관심을 보이지만, 소년은 그저 호기심과 조롱의 대상일 뿐이다. 한 교수가 하우저를 데려가 교육시키려 하는데, 어느 날, 하우저가 괴한의 공격을 받고 만다. 실제로 1928년 뉘른베르크에 나타나 세간의 관심과 논란을 불러일으켰던 소년 카스파르 하우저의 이야기를 그렸다. 배우가 아닌 거리의 악사였던 브루노 S.의 실제를 방불케 하는 연기가 깊은 인상을 남긴다. * 1975 칸영화제 심사위원대상 등 3개 부문

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.