Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification.

Haus und Hof

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany.

March Brandenburg, Inc.

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but unemployment rises steadily.

Feuerland

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

At the River

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Junge Leute

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

Even Today He’d Speak His Mind

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Hütes-Film

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

The Vast Field

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

In Rheinsberg

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of this special place.

An der Unstrut

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

Tag für Tag

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.

Gustav J.

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to Germany.