Uli M Schüppel
Directing
Biography
Uli M Schueppel is a German film director and documentary filmmaker. The M in the middle of his name is not an abbreviation of a first name, but a reference to the Elvis Presley song Trouble: My middle name is misery and is correctly written without an abbreviation dot.
Known For
A documentary that follows the recording process over three days and nights of "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A new version of the documentary appeared in 2005, and on the 2019 Criterion release of Wim Wenders' film UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD.
The Song
Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the subway shafts, between larger and smaller fates, that slowly but surely become entangled.
Planet Alex
Documentary of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1989 tour of America.
The Road to God Knows Where
It is shortly after the fall of the Wall and Kadir is released from an East Berlin psychiatric clinic. Resolved to begin life over again in Germany, he soon has to accept that there is no longer a place for him.
Fatherland
Der Tag tells the story about the every day occurrence of death. The essay-film sketches the last day of about ten people who died in Berlin. As voice-overs, the “passers-by”, or the different people close to the deceased, tell their story of that particular day from when they woke up, until the moment of death – somewhere in the city. Sometimes this moment is totally surprising, and sometimes it seems somehow forceful...
The Day
Twenty-six people talk about love and hardship, hope and bitterness, fear and happiness accompanied by celluloid images of Berlin at night. A symphony of life, a magical cosmos. The third part of the filmmaker’s “Chants” trilogy on space, time and the body.
The Breath
In an post-apocalyptic future, a group of young terrorists fights desperately against the obscure "Professor", the personification of all that is unwholesome in society, who ingeniously controls the ruins of civilization.
Nihil, or All the Time in the World
Von Wegen (aka Off Ways) is a documentary that offers a look at Einstürzende Neubauten's historic visit to the GDR and the recollections of the key figures involved twenty years later.
Elektrokohle (Von wegen)
Documentary film.
Brötzmann - Da gehört die Welt mal mir
A documentary on young musicians from around the world who have connected to the city of Berlin.
BerlinSong
Documentary film.