Eckhart Schmidt Movies

A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats...

Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.

Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with...

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."

Documentary about female opera stars.

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans....

Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him,...

Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.

Documentary about American gangster movies.

Three episodes depict events that actually took place in the years before the film was made. Three true‐life dramas explore...

Four mythical stories in a contemporary way.

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not...

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

Six young men are disturbed by their girlfriends while looking for adventures in Munich after their discharge from the Bundeswehr.

A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.

Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father escapes reality into an affair with his secretary while her...

Paintings and poetry about the end of it all.