Movies

Television essay about Jean Renoir and his films, in which, among other things, the filming conditions of Partie de campagne are discussed.

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber recounts the life and work of Robert Bresson

A documentary, a drama, a story of myth and murder. Wanted is a weird, wilderness, western, set in the Dakota Badlands, where the last herd of...

An essay on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau produced on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Helmut Färber makes connections between architecture and film

Film critic and scholar analyzes Jean Renoir's two films "Le Testament du docteur Cordelier" and "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe".

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber recounts the the life and work of Erich von Stroheim

Recurring motifs in Bresson’s cinema

TV documentary about the bicycle sequence in Ozu`s Banshun (Late Spring)

Sunrise is an educational “tips film” that analyzes F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Through selected excerpts and...

Film scholar Helmut Färber discusses Griffith' A CORNER IN WHEAT.

With their border crossings, transit routes and their control by the “Volks-Polizei” (GDR police), with their concrete slabs and their...

Route 181 is the epic record of a road trip undertaken in the summer of 2002 by two filmmakers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along sections of...

Scientific documentary film made by Reinold Thiel. Its the second part of the “Bundesdeutsche Filmpolitik” Trilogie made for german...

Portrait of director Roberto Rossellini and his films.

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber analyzes the final scene of Eisensteins "October: Ten Days That Shook the World"