Movies: Almut Zilcher

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about...

As an architect Robert Cortin is self-confident, but his private life is shaky. His wife Vera, a gynecologist, cannot have children. They have tried to get adopt a child for some time. Now Robert learns that his lover Stefanie is pregnant....

Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with so...

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s films and who collaborated closely with him to create ...

Marie races along the highway at 240 km/h. On this August night, she doesn't want to be anywhere else. She stops at a gas station for one last cigarette and one last Capri Sun. A quiet but final farewell. But suddenly Gerlinde is standing in front of...

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Two-year-old Paulina is suddenly no longer in her crib, and everything points to an abduction. But the hijacker does not answer....

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Kate is a young manic-depressive actress. One day, mentally drained and desperate, she checks into a suicide hotel. The hotel offers customers a variety of suicide options and promises total privacy. Here, she meets Viktor, a hotel employee who comes...

Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin....