Dokumentarfilm über zwei Männer, die Mitte der 50er Jahre als Nachkömmlinge deutscher Mütter und amerikanischer Besatzungssoldaten geboren wurden – "Kinder der Schande" nannte man solche Kinder ...
Dokumentarfilm über Aktivisten, Umweltschützer und umweltbewusste Politiker in Deutschland und den USA, die sich für eine weltweite Energiewende und den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel engagieren. Der ...
Deutschland, 1957. Der Staatsanwalt Fritz Bauer erhält entscheidende Hinweise über den Aufenthaltsort des SS-Obersturmbannführers Adolf Eichmann. Dieser gehörte zu den führenden Köpfen im Hitler...
Für das in Tel Aviv lebende Ehepaar Michael und Dafna Feldmann wird ein Alptraum wahr, als sie die Nachricht erhalten, dass ihr Sohn Jonathan kurz nach dem Beginn seines Militärdienstes gefallen sei...
Der Film beruht auf einem authentischen Fall im bayerischen Passau: Nachdem die Klosterschülerin Sonja einen internationalen Aufsatzwettbewerb gewonnen hat und von ihrer Heimatstadt Pfitzing hochgeeh...
Dokumentarfilm über Charlotte Rampling, die als Schauspielerin und als Frau zu einer stilbildenden Ikone für eine ganze Generation wurde. Sie inspirierte Helmut Newton zu seiner ersten Aktfotografie...
If there were an ideal-typical Marshall Plan film, "Village without Words) would come very close to it. Surprisingly, in Kurland's film the ideal takes the form of a hymn, a celebration of aid and rec...
This film presents at least two distinct settings: on the one hand, the film reports on the progress of a construction site near Caen. From the foundations of the buildings to the roofs, the different...
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
Through Charley's journey, the cartoon seeks to underline the disadvantages of traditional cities and the need for new, functional and hygienic cities.
This cartoon seeks to persuade us of the di...
Destruction of the Eppendorf University Hospital during World War II and reconstruction in the post-war years.
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
Car ride, woman collecting berries on the roadside, debris in Halle (Saale), streetcar, Leipzig tower, market church. Viaduct in Gräfenthal (Thuringia). Woman playing with goats.
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...