Fritz Rasp Interview

The film focuses on the role played by the parental home and vocational school alongside the training center in the life of an apprentice.

Based on the autobiographical notes by Leonhard Lentz the film tells the story of a man who was diagnosed with throat cancer. Besides the progress of the desease this film also focuses on the emotions and insights of the protagonist while being in therapy.

Four hours by boat from the lightship Elbe 1 is the southern entrance and lock of the Kiel Canal. There, in Brunsbüttelkoog, is a seamen's home run by Klara Andresen. This is the main setting of the movie. In the sailors' wives' home, the wives of sailors wait for their return. Klara Andresen not only looks after the concerns of the waiting sailors' wives, but also her brother-in-law Gustav Andresen . Gustav has gone to sea as a ship's cook and now wants to get married. That's why he has placed a marriage announcement and is waiting for the reactions.

In the Second World War, spring 1944: shortly before the planned Ardennes offensive, Germans and Americans stand waiting on the German-Belgian border. The small Eifel village of Winterspelt threatens to become the scene of a bloody battle. A German officer comes up with a plan to hand over his battalion to the Americans without a fight. He finds support from three inhabitants of the small village, who help him to present his offer of surrender to the Americans, which they ultimately reject.

Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968.

The story of Walerjan Wrobel, who was taken from occupied Poland to Germany for forced labor in 1941.

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York.

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.

Documentary about untold stories of Jewish citizens escaping from the Eifel in the early days of Nazi Germany.