Videoteca

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision 2013 star_border 8
Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Heimat Fragments: The Women 2006 star_border 5.7
Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.

The Night of the Filmmakers 1995 star_border 5
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

The Tailor from Ulm 1978 star_border 6.5
The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how many failures he endures, his ardour is never dampened. He continues with his dream to fly like a bird.

Zero Hour 1977 star_border 5.6
In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the inhabitants try to adjust to the new authority.

Die Reise nach Wien 1973 star_border 5.5
Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

The Golden Thing 1972 star_border 6.2
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.

Tales of the Dumpster Kid 1971 star_border 3.6
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?

Cardillac 1970 star_border 4
The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.

Lust for Love 1967 star_border 4.5
Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her.

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting Release date not available
Great philosopher and intellectual Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is painted on behalf of Electress Sophie of Hanover. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings 2007 star_border 5
The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.