Directing
Katrin Seybold
Born July 14, 1943
Died June 27, 2012 · aged 68
Katrin Seybold, born on July 14, 1943, in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz), Poland, grew up in Stuttgart and studied art history in Tübingen from 1964. She gained her first practical film experience through the experimental film circle at Stuttgart University. In 1968, she dropped out of college and moved to Berlin, where she became politically active: she lived in the women's commune on Türkenstraße and …
Known For
Die wilden Tiere · 1969Die wilden Tiere
1969
MovieDocumentary
Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg.
King Kongs Faust · 1985King Kongs Faust
★ 8.01985
MovieComedy
Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.
Scharnhorst Women’s Initiative · 1979Scharnhorst Women’s Initiative
1979
MovieDocumentary
Women counselling women. Five thousand renters live in the satellite settlement of Scharnhorst near Dortmund. More than thousand of them are women living alone or with their children. A large percentage of them are on welfare. They need help in asserting their rights vis-à-vis the social welfare authorities. This documentary uses the point of view of a 26-year-old single mother of two to document the commitment of the women’s initiative. “In the group, I realised that I am not the isolated case I always thought I was.”
The Golden Thing · 1972The Golden Thing
★ 6.81972
MovieDramaAdventure
Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and cunning to overcome various obstacles until they reach the destination of their fantastic journey. The experiment is not only due to the popularization or naive glorification of a myth, but the search space occupied by fact that the heroes of antiquity were actually very young.
Love Is the Beginning of All Terror · 1984Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
★ 5.81984
MovieDrama
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women.
The Lie · 1987The Lie
1987
MovieDocumentary
The child of survivors of the Sinti persecution by Nazis, Melanie Spitta confronts the truth about unpaid reparations as she exposes shocking evidence and issues a warning against believing perpetrators over victims.
Es ging Tag und Nacht, liebes Kind. · 1982Es ging Tag und Nacht, liebes Kind.
1982
MovieDocumentary
In the documentary, Melanie Spitta accompanies survivors and their children to Auschwitz. The film powerfully illustrates how the horrors of the concentration camps have shaped the survivors and their descendants across decades and generations—and why the victims’ trust in the Gadjé remains broken to this day.
Wir sind Sintikinder und keine Zigeuner · 1981Wir sind Sintikinder und keine Zigeuner
1981
MovieDocumentary
The nine-year-old Sinti girl Brigitta shows us her world. She lives with her family in a caravan site on the outskirts of a small Bavarian town. Everybody still speaks Romani and continues to live by the customs handed down. That means that the children take part in adult life and that the very highly respected parents describe how it used to be. In this community, all age groups live together naturally. For these Sinti, `gypsy' is an insult. At school they are taught there are two cultures, two languages and two realities: that of the Sinti and that of the Germans. While German is spoken at school, the only pupils are Sinti children. Brigitta animatedly describes the material deprivations, which are mollified by the life as `one big family'. Brigitta knows all too well where she belongs.
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