Movies: Thomas Brasch

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-ye...

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a utopia of freedom and love....

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Ge...

A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working with an old leftist director in a deserted theatrehouse. Caught between her painful childhood - loss of the mother - and the confusing and instable pr...

A disenchanted young couple, Oi and Sakko, meet on an abandoned railway track and drift through a series of loosely connected scenes and dialogues, often under the influence of thorn apple. Their elusive bond is anchored by a stolen Mercedes, which b...

Intimate portrait of writer, poet and filmmaker Thomas Brasch....