Christian Petzold Movies

Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany.

Laura's life is upended when she is in a car crash with her boyfriend who is killed. Laura wanders into the house and life of a family of strangers,...

"Où en êtes-vous ?" (Where do you stand today?) is a project initiated by the Centre Pompidou, which commissions its guest filmmakers to...

Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German...

Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings...

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

Portraits of students of Berlin Film School.

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”,...

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

Bruno S., musician and actor in several films by Werner Herzog (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek), leads us round along the former front lines in Berlin. A...

Short film made by a group of young directors in Berlin.

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are...

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss