Movies by Hanns Zischler

Tracing Battleship Potemkin

Tracing Battleship Potemkin

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin in the last 80 years, and how many of those shots have been returned.

Die Frau aus dem Meer

Die Frau aus dem Meer

Brief an mein Leben

Brief an mein Leben

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free adaptation of the biographical novel of the same name by Miriam Meckel with Grimme award winner Marie Bäumer in the leading role.

All of a Sudden

All of a Sudden

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.

Abgetrieben

Abgetrieben

TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for illegal abortions.

Overnight

Overnight

One day of a Hungarian stock trader.

Der Leibwächter

Der Leibwächter

A Prominent Patient

A Prominent Patient

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.

The Venus Trap

The Venus Trap

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ...

Der falsche Tod

Der falsche Tod

What Happens In Your Brain If You See a German Word Like...?

What Happens In Your Brain If You See a German Word Like...?

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

Same Player Shoots Again

Same Player Shoots Again

Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but, as the end comes closer, he starts to walk in zigzag. Is he hurt?

A Year Ago in Winter

A Year Ago in Winter

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying of hunger. Countless of these starving people wrote diaries with the last of their strength, and cameramen filmed in the paralyzed city. Evidence from the hell of the siege, many of the film recordings, but above all the written memories on which this documentary on the occasion of the 80th ...

Angels of Iron

Angels of Iron

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermea...

Heil

Heil

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Olga's Summer

Olga's Summer

A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ready to join her.

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.

Ein Mann unter Verdacht

Ein Mann unter Verdacht

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusations and recriminations at each other, Anja allegedly surfaces in Spain, raising a strange suspicion against Lavinia.

The Horsemen of the Storm

The Horsemen of the Storm

Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired drama by Gérard Vergez. The brothers meet her when she is on duty in Turkey -- one brother is stationed there and the other becomes her ambulance driver. Since Marie has just lost her husband in combat, she is not at first open to another relationship but finally begins an affair with the older brother. Jealousy rears its ugly head, and the younger and older brother start to compete for her favor...