Thomas Beckmann
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37° reports on typical life situations in our society from an unusual perspective: the camera accompanies a group or individual people, usually in a particularly exposed social situation. The reportage often outlines a turning point or a decision-making phase in the biography under review.
37 Grad
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Verbotenes Begehren
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Drei Patienten
Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, has died, leaving empty the royal treasury and an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and goldsmith masterpieces, which he considered a symbol of his greatness, and that of Dresden, one of the European capitals of Baroque art.
The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, in April 1918, the most sensitive diplomatic mission of the First World War became a Europe-wide scandal: the so-called "Sixtus Affair". Secret negotiations between the Austrian imperial family and France were supposed to bring peace to the Danube monarchy – and their failure caused the war to escalate and the Habsburgs to fall.
The Fall of the Habsburgs
Achim, a east German debt collector fights against his class enemy from the time in the late eighties, when he was still a little boy in school. Back then, the two have always been in a competition to receive some recognition from their school mates
Der Klassenfeind
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Die gute Lage
A filmmaker gets a suitcase full of memories from her grandmothers life partner.
Im Sommer sitzen die Alten
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Die Treppe
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O Casa Aparte
Intimate documentary portrait of german cinematographer Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, who worked with many directors of the New German Cinema and was longtime collaborator of Werner Herzog und Herbert Achternbusch.