Oskar Sala

The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney-Quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi” a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.

Третий фильм трилогии пародийных комедий о привидениях рассказывает о событиях, случившихся в отеле "Шпессарт", где его владелица Анна-Луиза Зандау готовится к свадьбе с американским офицером Фрэнком Грином…

A documentary on making cameras and photographic equipment, which turns into a philosophical visual essay on the art and nature of photography as it unfolds.

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures. Thus, Durniok could concentrate on images and editing sequences of his movies without having to worry about live sound. The soundtrack subsequently created by Sala has always been a free, electronically-abstract composition with a strong rhythmic and tonal reference to sequence and image content.

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures.

A short, impressionistic documentary about the extremely precise process behind the creation of an autoclave (a reaction container) for a nuclear power plant. Otherworldly electroacoustic soundtrack by Oskar Sala.

События фильма происходят в маленьком немецком городке в последние дни Второй мировой войны. Гитлеровская армия терпит поражение за поражением, скоро в городе могут оказаться американские войска. В такой ситуации нацисты идут на крайние меры, пополняя свои резервы школьниками, взятыми прямо из-за парт. Они призывают и семерых друзей-одноклассников, которые с восторгом воспринимают возможность отличиться. Однако голос разума подсказывает начальству, что лучше этих юнцов не бросать в мясорубку, поэтому их оставляют охранять мост, не имеющий никакого стратегического значения. Впрочем, вскоре так выходит, что они остаются последним препятствием на пути американских войск…

Short by Ferdinand Khittl commissioned by BASF about the use of magnetic tape.

Animated film about a bird.