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.

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

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 ...

Финн — знаменитый фотограф. Его работы украшают лучшие галереи и обложки журналов по всему миру. Жизнь бьет ключом, он — настоящая звезда арт-сцены. Но в сердце живет трагическая пустота. Однажды он приезжает в Палермо, где знакомится с прекрасной и загадочной художницей Флавией и встречает свою любовь. Но внезапно с ним начинает происходить нечто необъяснимое, оживают древние фрески, искусство сливается с реальностью. Финн словно погружается на самое дно ада…

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.

Биогенетик Бертольд Хоффман, разыскивая жену, однажды ночью приходит в молодёжный центр, в котором она работает. Здание, где собираются радикалы, окружено полицией. Хоффман вбегает в помещение и ему простреливают голову. Позже он приходит в сознание с черепно-мозговой травмой, частично парализованный, неспособный говорить. Полиция обвиняет его в том, что он ранил ножом офицера, а радикалы объявляют его невинной жертвой полицейского беспредела. На протяжении медленного восстановления в больнице Хоффман должен по кусочкам собрать свою жизнь и попытаться вспомнить события той ночи.

Сначала кажется, что в этой черно-белой ленте ничего не произойдет, разве что немецкий журналист Филипп Винтер наснимает еще пару сотен «полароидных» снимков. Он путешествует по восточному побережью США под ритмы Чака Берри в поисках материала, но работа не клеится. Первое значимое событие происходит по пути домой. Филипп знакомится в аэропорту с немкой Лизой и ее дочерью Алисой. Рейс задерживается, в процессе ожидания мать внезапно сбегает, оставив записку про какую-то бабушку, которую надо разыскать в Европе. И Филиппу ничего не остается, как совершить второе путешествие — по родному континенту, с чужим ребенком, в поисках неизвестно кого, под музыку Can и Густава Малера.

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.

Peter F. Schneider's 1968 abstract political satire.