Zdf Movies

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germ...

In 1972, the camera eye observes Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the ambiance he has created for himself and presents a wide selection of his beautiful...

Ever since his wife Paula left him, Felix Keller has been holed up in his apartment, and it is only right that the residents avoid him. But then a lea...

Electric locomotives in the West, steam locomotives in the East. This report from Bebra uses "observations at a German train station" to illustrate th...

Documentary about 41-year old Rüdiger Nehberg marching about 1000 kilometers from Hamburg in northern Germany to Oberstdorf in the south of Germany. M...

A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.

Can people from two different cultures be happy? "Yes! Yes! Yes!", believe Didem and Jakob and shortly afterwards they are no longer a couple: the liv...

Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom),refusin...

Barely known and never seen, elephant shrews baffle even the zoologists. With their stilt-like legs and long mobile trunk, joined to the body of a lar...

They are passionate hackers and are constantly looking for new problems and their solutions. They live in what appears to be an infinitely accelerated...

The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gy...

A psychological and existential study of a prisoner charged with guarding an isolated lighthouse. If he makes it through two years, the remainder of h...

Portrait about the planning and rehearsal of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Calixto Bieito at the opera house in Stuttgart.