Movies by Christoph Bantzer

Funny Games

Funny Games

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Austria, the ensuing tide of East German refugees to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for transfer to West Germany, the pompous ceremonies at GDR's 40th anniversary, the inept transactions the Politburo took to salvage the situation, the resulting dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, the interna...

Amphitryon

Amphitryon