David Slama

Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

“Em 3 dias…você estará morto!” No começo, Nina e seus amigos pensam que esse SMS é apenas uma brincadeira estúpida. Mas ninguém ri no dia seguinte, quando o namorado de Nina é encontrado amarrado num bloco de concreto, morto no fundo do lago. Quando outro membro do grupo é brutalmente atacado, todos ficam horrorizados de medo. Todos estão na lista do assassino. Mas, por quê? Nina é a única a descobrir uma misteriosa pista que leva à descoberta da identidade do brutal assassino. Enquanto os corpos vão aparecendo e os assassinatos se tornando mais e mais mórbidos, ninguém parece acreditar nela, e o tempo está se esgotando…

Os irmãos órfãos Próspero (Bob Goody) e Bo (Jim Carter) escapam de sua tia maldosa e fogem para Veneza, na Itália, a maravilhosa cidade que a mãe deles sempre falava. Vivendo na rua, eles se unem à um grupo de crianças ladras e ao seu jovem líder carismático, Scipio (Carole Boyd). No esconderijo da gangue, um antigo cinema, os irmãos embarcam em uma série de aventuras pela cidade que esconde segredos e tesouros mágicos.

Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "The Four Righteous" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More "honorable" personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the "honorable personalities" as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.

Pinky, a child detective, solves two cases for multi-millionaire Jonathan Morgan.

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.

Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a better post war Germany. However, he gets quickly disillussioned in the still young Bonner Republik.

The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.

This documentary film without commentary examines and describes the confrontation of (white) tourists with the still "undiscovered" North Camaroon. A combination of documentation, acting by lay people, interviews and self-portrayals are used. It is shown above all from the viewpoint of black Africans and narrated by four natives. The chief of an untouched village high in the Mandara mountains represents the "original" Africa; Christophe Colombe plays the guide in his native village, Rhumsiki; an African who has visited Europe and has got to know white people; and finally, the famous poet, René Philombé, recites poems.

Adolf Winkelmann's cult movie "A Lot of Coal" tells the story of miner Katlewski. Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He no longer realizes with his wife and the prosperity they have achieved.

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are intended to introduce the process of understanding the theory of value of work and the law of values, alienation and fetish.

Documentary

Short film about a strike