Helma Sanders-Brahms Movies

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna...

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her...

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing...

Tutor Jeronimo and heiress Josephe fall in love but are quickly torn from one another by execution and jail. However, when fate intervenes in the...

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On...

In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a...

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to...

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

Documentary about the everyday routine of the sales assistant Angelika Urban.

When East Germany ceases to be separate from its western half, one would think that things would be better for the couple in this movie who have been...

Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish...

No folkore, no rituals, no klezmer, no political statements, no twee Berlin Jewish quarters. This film is an attempt to make an imageless film; a...

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days...

TV short film by Helma Sanders-Brahms.