Movies: Herbert Schwarze

What would we do if the world ended tomorrow? And what do we do to prevent it? "The End of the World As We Know It" is a film about three people who seek survival in the face of great catastrophes: in a bunker far from civilization, in the contaminat...

"With Your Own Eyes" observes the editorial staff of the public german broadcaster ARD's political magazine "Monitor" in their daily work, focusing on the making of a single program....

Darkness and its possession evoke artistic "pre-images": primarily Expressionism and its "after-images". The story is told of a stroll through the (cinematic) night, of absurd and of dead theater....

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at the window. The heat of an idle day of holiday, perhaps. The South, a place of longing....

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

By accompanying 20 very different individuals in today's Berlin, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and filmmaker Ciro Cappellari sketch a portrait of a modern, stimulating metropolis....

The family of Polish woman Jowita lacks the money needed to finally finish building their house, which has been under construction for years. In order to be able to afford the remaining work, Jowita goes to Germany for a few months to work as a house...

As commissioning editor at WDR, Werner Dütsch influenced several generations of cinephiles in Germany from the 1970s onwards. This documentary is based on an eight-hour interview conducted by Christiane Büchner with Dütsch in 2018, the year before hi...

In the essay film "HAMMERBROOK BLUES" Louis Fried goes in search of traces in the Hamburg district of Hammerbrook. An area in whose appearance war and Nazi rule are inscribed to this day. Between wasteland and reconstruction, memorials and urban plan...

Water as a physical and metaphysical metaphor and background of human existence. A docu-fictional essay between the Brazilian Sertão-deserts and the Northern-German flood areas of Dithmarschen. Dramas and day-by-day-observations in times of climate c...