Dokumentarfilm über den Steinmetz Michael Spengler, der Grabsteine erstellt und dabei eine besondere Vorgehensweise hat: Er versucht, in seinen Steinen die Persönlichkeit des Verstorbenen authentisc...
Berlin, Anfang der 1980er Jahre: Der Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR wirbt den jungen, systemtreuen Ostberliner Ludger an, um ihn in die Künstlerszene des Prenzlauer Berg einzuschleusen. Dort sammelt...
Vor Jahren hatte die 22-jährige Studentin Lena ihr Elternhaus im Streit verlassen und den Kontakt zu ihrer Mutter abgebrochen. Nun erhält sie von ihrem Vater überraschend die Nachricht von deren Un...
Lose Fortsetzung des Sozialdramas "Mediterranea" (DE/US/IT/FR) aus dem Jahr 2015. Im Mittelpunkt steht der 14-jährige Roma Pio, der mit seiner großen Familiengemeinschaft in einer italienischen Stad...
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
A film about the first post-war October in Prague is also an experimental work in colour documentary. in addition to the colors of the autumn trees, it also plays with the colors of the neon lights an...
Using non-fictional shots and animated maps, the film presents the planned project of the Elbe-Oder-Danube Canal, which should open the way for Czechoslovakia to the world's seas and connect it with t...
Film představuje technickou podstatu a historický vývoj staroměstského orloje na budově Staroměstské radnice v Praze. Jelikož se radnice stala jednou z mála pražských budov poničených v ...
Prague celebrates the fifth anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army in the presence of Klement Gottwald, the President of Czechoslovakia, and the Russian Marshal Boulganine.
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
From 1943, Marseille is occupied by the Germans who destroy some neighborhoods and build fortifications. After the landings in June and August 1944, the Germans undermine the port and begin to destroy...
War damage in Cologne. The camera pans across ruins but also piles of rubble and largely cleared areas. The whole area appears deserted, inhabited only by a few women and children.
Work began on the new Naples station. Electrification from Bologna to Venice completed. The locomotive of train 450 is fished out. In Milan, the flag is handed over to the ex-combatant railway worker...
The documentary shows the efforts to rebuild, firstly in a temporary and then in definitive, the principal railway stations and lines to reconnect physically and economically the entire country.
Phase of the doubling works on the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line. Inauguration in Rome of the first section of the Metro: Termini Station - Eur. A concrete bridge with pendulum suspension tested ...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch documents the blasting of the last remaining arch girder of the Carola Bridge on March 7, 1952. Shortly before the end of the war, on May 7, 1945, it had be...
In Maremma, the love story between two young peasants and the head of the family’s resistance to change are part of the background of a discourse on the need to modernize agricultural technology for...
1. 1951: Inauguration of the newly constructed Nordstadtbrücke in the presence of Minister President Reinhold Maier / 2. 1970: Inauguration of the Kanzlersteg over the river Enz / 3. 1971: Renovation...
The desertification of the French countryside takes tragic proportions, for instance in Goudron. The film presents the solutions to avoid the concentric madness of cities: modernization of agriculture...
The film depicts the work of workers climbing tall cranes and scaffolds in large shipyard facilities from a base 100 feet high. Filmed both from below and from the scaffolds, these workers are shown i...