At Anchor / Land Under: A Film With Sterling Hayden

Documentary about American filmmaker Abraham Polonsky.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.

Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”

Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.

Documentary about Vietnam.

Documentary about Italian musician and lawyer Paolo Conte.

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK