Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Movies

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

In Heinrich von Kleist's "Penthesilea", war, the death of love and erotic cannibalism merge into a battle of the sexes. The drama, which was...

Fritz Kortner performs a monologue.

This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a...

The noble family of the Poccis owns the Ammerland castle on Lake Starnberg. The current lord of the castle leads a secluded, small life as a farmer,...

'Mozart Requiem mit dem Finger gelesen' belongs to a group of 31 films which were made for the room 'Cave of memory' at Documenta X (1997).

The film features footage of three productions by the Berliner Ensemble from 1953: excerpts from performances of Puntila and Mutter, as well as a...

Hans Jürgen Syberberg grew up in the town of Demmin, the subject of his current film. The history of the town, in which a mass suicide with...

Winifred, the geriatric daughter-in-law of the famed composer Richard Wagner, talks about her cultural and political influence during the Third...

This Ecce Homo is an impressive statement of life beyond the death of an artist "of the descent of Dionysus".

A short film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.