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The film portrays the photographer Walter Ballhause, who walks the streets of his home town of Hanover in the 1930s with his Leica and photographs...

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys...

The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Two narrators read the letters of unknown people and tell about the fate of individuals, their work, love and life.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers,...

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

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from...

Documentary about a district with social problems and an unconventional teacher, who tries to teach more than just knowledge.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

Sixth Wittstock film. This Wittstock film, co-produced by the French broadcaster La Sept, begins in 1990. Koepp shows the consequences of...

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands...

The desperate private war of a Vietnam veteran of the US Army. The Film explores the biggest amok run in the history of the USA at that point of...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies,...

In two chapters the film shows men in divided Germany willing to leave their country. In the first chapter, East-Germans are shown who leave their...

The film reports on the development of the Berlin zoo. A sparrow tells the story of Berliners' love of animals. Many visitors seek joy and relaxation...

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...