Hanns Zischler Movies

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness...

Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to...

A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources.

Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic car accident. To get some distance, Sophie...

Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking down Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Latin America...

The son of Klausner is kidnapped in a Sardinian village. Klausner, who pays his ex-wife to keep the son, decides not to pay the ransom and to handle...

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin...

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser...

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk...

What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday,...

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his...

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American...

Hasn't every woman ever wondered whether it's best to ditch all the men and just marry your best friend? Paula and Emily are doing just that. Single...

A man gets on a train to Cologne. Inspired by a poem by Rolf Dieter Brinkman.

Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but,...

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. This documentary explores the...