Jörg Herrmann

The river that passes through the mill has dried out. The miller and his daughter are frantic: how can they deliver the huge amount of flour needed for the wedding at the castle? The devil promises to help, but only if the girl follows him to hell; but the girl’s true love chases the devil away and builds a levee. The devil is very angry and whips up a bad storm that destroys the mill… and then proposes to rebuild it in exchange for the girl. The miller accepts the offer, but keeps one nail hidden! Without the nail, the devil loses the bet and the girl celebrates marries her beloved. (Quelle: DEFA Film Library)

“From the Life of a Peddler” is a collection of tales located in the hills of the Lausitz. The movie is made by the last active director of real silouhette animation movies from the DEFA. His new movie stands in the tradition of Lotte Reiniger.

This short animation collage uncovers the financial backing of the Chilean Junta bosses by the US. Screened at the 1976 Oberhausen Int. Film Festival.

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944).

This silhouette-animated short exposes the Pinochet government through comparisons to Hitler's Nazi regime.

The film shows a humorous take on moments from the life of Karl Marx over the course of a quarter century.

Silouhette animation movie of the tale of "Krabat" placed in the german Lausitz.

After a long wait, a king and queen have a daughter. As there are not enough golden plates, only twelve wise women can be invited to the christening. The thirteenth is so offended by this that she appears uninvited and wishes the child dead. Fortunately, the twelfth fairy has not yet made her wish and is able to alleviate the curse: Sleeping Beauty then stabs herself with a spindle on her fifteenth birthday and falls into a hundred-year sleep, from which a king's son releases her with a kiss.