Love's Places - Plätze der Liebe

Silent film about five girls, dealing with the dream of beauty, despair of revolution, broken Gretchen love, absurd self-discovery, and on the heels of Dürer's Melancholia, the future and a massacre vision.

Las Vegas - Die erste Stadt des 21. Jahrhunderts

Documentary about Las Vegas.

Hollywood Rebellen

Hollywood would be nothing without them: without the stars, who combine a lot of light and shadow, who act as rebels not only in front of but also behind the camera.

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped too beautifully, an investigation that was cut short, evidence that disappeared. Plus Marilyn's affairs with the then US President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. What really happened on that fateful summer night? After her housekeeper discovers the body, six hours pass before the police ar...

The Fan

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.

Loft

In an apocalyptic future world, a young upper class couple is visiting an exhibition of surrealistic paintings, presented by a group of young anarchists in their loft flat where they trap and torture their high society guests.

Los Angeles narrates

Documentary about Los Angeles.

Zwischenmusik

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Hans Werner Henze's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg".

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.

Amore Veneziano

A film by Eckhart Schmidt made in Venice that plays experimentally with image and sound.

Teatro del Sole

A Palermo head-off-legend about love and hate.

Piazza D'Amore

Italian girls live out their passions at places in Palermo and Rome.

Noir After Noon

A writer's fantasy goes erotic ways in Rome.

TreCamerone 3

Third part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

TreCamerone 2

Second part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

Broken Hearts

The daughter of a gangster tries to seduce her driver.

Die Story

The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his girlfriend Raphaela and his parents. The drug mafia also ensures that Raoul loses his good reputation and becomes an outsider. But Raoul does not give up...

Kundry

Documentary about opera production and the life of theatre stars.

The Flying Dutchman

Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.

Neue Welle '82 - Rabiate Langeweile

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt about New Wave music.