André Schäfer

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event p...

01 de set. de 2013

To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric F...

06 de dez. de 2024

Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

05 de nov. de 2023

The man who invented James Bond: The story of Ian Fleming, real-life spy, ladies' man and sportsman, who was there at the birth of MI-5 and the CIA...

07 de nov. de 2015

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America througho...

02 de jul. de 2023

The history of Playboy magazine as told by Hugh Hefner.

25 de mai. de 2008

18 de abr. de 2023

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he...

15 de fev. de 2020

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of kn...

03 de jan. de 2021

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.

16 de fev. de 2007

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...

28 de out. de 2017

John Irving's literary worlds are satirically exaggerated, socially critical, unexpectedly magical. But how do these dazzling, sometimes bizarre, n...

01 de mar. de 2012

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth M...

23 de set. de 2018

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid ...

15 de nov. de 2019

The collar of his coat turned up in New York: Images which have collaborated on building a myth – the image of eternal and misunderstood youth. Unl...

25 de set. de 2005

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium ...

03 de set. de 2019

Documentary about the song “You'll Never Walk Alone,” the most famous sports anthem of the world.

18 de mai. de 2017

04 de out. de 2024

Thomas Mann worked for almost 50 years on his novel „Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull“. In no other work has the writer incorporated so ma...

07 de nov. de 2024

The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the patriarch and furniture designer; Rembrandt, the...

11 de mar. de 2018

23 de mai. de 2023

This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behin...

03 de ago. de 2022

11 de fev. de 2008

20 de out. de 2024

Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired...

13 de fev. de 2010

Documentary about the cult figure of German science fiction literature, Perry Rhodan, as well as its creators and lovers.

01 de set. de 2011

The story of the last offspring of a powerful German family, whose cannons killed countless people in two world wars: Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach,...

19 de nov. de 2015

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surf...

01 de dez. de 2016

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and...

19 de dez. de 2020

Stonewall veterans, comrades from the earliest days, as well as activists and allies of the LGBT community talk about their personal experiences. T...

03 de ago. de 2018

A documentary about Doris Day and the question where she is today.

02 de abr. de 2009

25 de set. de 2022

25 de abr. de 2019

Fifty years after gays and transvestites resisted police harassment and the LGBTI movement began in June 1969 on Christopher Street in New York, ho...

28 de jun. de 2019

On June 28th, 1969, the New York Police Department conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. To ...

06 de jul. de 2014

While the First World War and its battles on the Western Front are still very much anchored in our memory of history, the simultaneous battle in th...

26 de nov. de 2017

17 de nov. de 2021

18 de fev. de 2017

In the 19th century, Baden-Baden was the summer capital of Europe. The city is particularly attractive to Russians. With Dostoyevsky and Turgenev c...

23 de jan. de 2022

17 de dez. de 2013