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The Filmgalerie 451 distributes about 200 films for cinemas and public screenings, including many of our own productions and almost all films by Christoph Schlingensief, Heinz Emigholz, Omer Fast and Roland Klick. Most of the films are also available internationally.

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of...

GER 2023

Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min

A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid,...

DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min

A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and...

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the...

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min

Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.

ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,...

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as...

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue...

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

Spain 2014, 18 min

A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

GER/USA 2014, 56 min

Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California  a hybrid...

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min

An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

​HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable...

GER/USA 2011, 30 min

The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting...

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended...

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to...

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min

The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of...

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern...

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min

Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz...

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and...

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German...

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous...

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the...

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration...

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 88 min

The Chronicle of a farewell.

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to...

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1985, 6 min

As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

GER 1985, 367 min

A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating...

GER 1984, 7 min

“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and...

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

USA/GER 1982, 109 min

Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial...

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1969, 13 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total...

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each...

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film...

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three...

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film portrays a subculture through different generations. People...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of patriarchal society. A radically humorous critique of the...

GER 2023

Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.

FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min

A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959).

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean architecture Freddy Mamani Silvestre.

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min

A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid, confrontational and hilarious.

DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min

A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.

GER 2019, 80 min

Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.  

GER 2018, 36 min

The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and their assistants in the period of 27 years, and the ...

GER 2019, 93 min

The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the after are brought together in 93 minutes, allowing their...

LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min

Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.

ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

GER 2017, 88 min

Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia.

GER/ISR 2017, 92 min

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as appendix, The Story of Vio Nova – accompanied by...

GER 2017, 95 min

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue, three buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. As...

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

DK 2015, 107 min

Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.

GER/DEN 2015, 29 min

Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.

Spain 2014, 18 min

A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

GER/USA 2014, 56 min

Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California  a hybrid documentary/fiction film.

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min

An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience and escape from overstructured German post-war reality. The...

​HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min

Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel.

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of illegal immigration.

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER 2012, 106 min

An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2012, 86 min

On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable circumstances.

GER/USA 2011, 30 min

The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not unfamiliar with the pitfalls of life, Werner Schroeter...

EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min

A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.

GER 2011, 83 min

Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.

GER 2011, 83 min

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.

GER 2011, 86 min

A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.

GER 1986-2010, 152 min

A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting to be made during the course of his work on other films...

GER 2010, 64 min

An outstanding German zombie film.

GER 2010, 97 min

John Cassavetes A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.

ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for an exhibition.

GER 2010, 323 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to this day.

A/I 2009, 105 min

A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.

GER/A 2009, 168 min

The description of a lifeline through architecture.

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

D 2008, 375 min

Whoever shows his wound will be healed.

EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min

The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.

A 2008, 72 min

27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of their construction. 

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur as antagonists of real friendship and moreover of love....

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

GER 2008, 42 min

Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!

A 2007, 99 min

40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern California is the cornerstone of a branch of modern...

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min

Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2006, 88 min

Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 90 min

A love triangle.

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2003, 94 min

A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

A 2002, 90 min

Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director...

A 2002, 80 min

Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.

GER 2002, 372 min

Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz show.

GER 2001, 24 min

14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.

GER 1993-2000, 38 min

Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.

GER 2000-2001, 305 min

U3000 – the underground talk.

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s...

GER 1997, 60 min

The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM.

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1995, 77 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous, scatological, certifiable splatter comedy about a Messiah in...

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1992, 45 min

A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and at the same time homage to a good friend.

GER 1992, 79 min

They sought love and found only hatred the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German Trilogy.

GER 1990, 60 min

After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous response to German reunification!

GER 1989, 55 min

One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the Führerbunker as it really was.

GER 1989, 92 min

From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration of love to the cinema!

GER 1988, 85 min

Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!

GER 1988, 88 min

The Chronicle of a farewell.

GER 1986, 84 min

Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to each other in tender love, threatened by everyone.

GER 1986, 21 min

Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!

GER 1986, 81 min

Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!

GER 1985, 6 min

As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.

GER 1985, 13 min

Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!

GER 1985, 367 min

A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating the darkness of night, entirely focused on the speaker,...

GER 1984, 7 min

“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and figure psychology, from now on only single moments of...

GER 1984, 71 min

Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.

GER 1983, 9 min

Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 13 min

The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.

GER 1983, 92 min

One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!

USA/GER 1982, 109 min

Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.

GER 1982, 2 min

Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.

GER 1982, 4 min

One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.

GER 1977, 21 min

Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.

GER 1975-77, 56 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

GER 1972-75, 142 min

The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of...

GER 1974, 84 min

Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.

GER 1970, 85 min

Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.

GER 1969, 13 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!

GER 1968, 10 min

Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.

GER 1966, 52 min

A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total cinematic madness. A modern Orpheus and Eurydice.

Two

GER 1965, 24min

A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each other, but on this day their paths cross twice.

GER 1964, 16 min

Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film classic!

GER 1963, 10 min

A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago....

Films A-Z

Two