Christian Petzold Movies

Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

Short film made by a group of young directors in Berlin.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees....

The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could...

Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than...

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany.

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are...

He is the despicable child killer in Fritz Lang's M. Drawing on testimonies and archives, this portrait sheds light on Peter Lorre's turbulent career...

Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

"Où en êtes-vous ?" (Where do you stand today?) is a project initiated by the Centre Pompidou, which commissions its guest filmmakers to...

Bruno S., musician and actor in several films by Werner Herzog (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek), leads us round along the former front lines in Berlin. A...