Liebe Mutter, mir geht es gut 1972 ( 3)

The unemployed machinist Alfred "Scheff" Schefczyk moves from Württemberg to West Berlin full of hope, where he finds a job as a transporter. There, however, he despairs at the seemingly insurmountable dependency structures and the lack of solidarity among his fellow sufferers. The rent in the workers' hostel is raised disproportionately, but nobody wants to mess things up with the landlord or janitor. At work, piecework hours are tightened, but nobody wants to go on strike, and when they do, they are quickly crushed by the management's tactics. When Scheff tries to mobilize against the dismissal of one of the delegates, he finds only one worker willing to sign. "Dear mother, I'm fine," he nevertheless writes on a postcard.

Snowdrops Bloom in September 1974

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.

Die Italienerin in Algier 1961

Drs. P: Niet Van Talent Gespeend 2007

A documentary on Heinz Hermann Polzer, better known under his pseudonym Drs. P. Polzer was a Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, and prose writer in the Dutch language. His oeuvre consists mainly of macabre novelty songs, with dry humour, surprising twists and an exceptionally inventive and virtuoso use of the Dutch language. Polzer sang his lyrics with a distinctive shaky voice, while accompanying himself on the piano.

The Return of Drs. P. 2019 ( 8)

Songwriter and entertainer Drs. P. often let his public roll over the floor with laughter with his absurd songs, but his personal life also knew a dark side. The documentary 'De Terugkeer van Drs. P.' (The Return of Drs. P.) doesn't simply show a hilarious but also a painful image of the virtuoso who rarely showed anything of his personal life.

Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War 1965

A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.

Forschung für Morgen 1970

A film about space research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Space projects, further development of space technology and how these developments can benefit the German economy and change lives are explained.

Blood and Soil 1933

Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to the ideology focussing on a concept of ethnicity based on descent (Blood) and homeland (Soil). It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land that they occupy and cultivate and places high esteem on the virtues of the bucolic (as opposed to urban) living. From this propaganda film, we learn, how hard it is to be a peasant when liberals rule the state. A family of peasants is forced to sell their property and run away to a big city, where they are forced to live in the poverty. Thankfully when the Nazis take power, they may finally come back and live a happy life. Besides the main plot, there is also educational elements here: Germans are informed how few of them will remain in 2050 year if they don't start a mass reproduction.