Schatt's Last Shot

Solondz’s 1985 student short film “Schatt’s Last Shot” provides an ideal entry point to his unflinching universe of dark comic despair. A young Solondz stars in the 10-minute short as geeky high schooler Ezra Schatt, a n

Life's Shadows

An unscrupulous husband exploits his beautiful wife to advance his own career. When he dies under mysterious circumstances, she is accused of murder. To clear her name, the widow ventures into the Parisian underworld in

Circus Life

Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot,

Gesichter des Schattens

Children’s Game #50: Schattenfangen

In order to avoid being tagged, the shadow must run away. Only the body to which the shadow belongs can escape to protect the shadow from the catcher’s evil kick. When the feet detach from the ground, the connection betw

Claras Schatz

Schatten einer Stunde

Shadows of an Hour) and director Otto Rippert's atmospheric style following his earlier expressionist-pioneering work on Homunculus, the film deals with dramatic tension, human fate, and fleeting psychological or emotion

Shadow Kids

This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic hea

Light and Shade

In the desolate towns of former Eastern Germany, the life of the people seems to have fossilized. The dissolution of the German Democratic Republic brought their world to a standstill. Three men unite in a community of s

Attack from The Shadows 2006

Teenager Michael accidentally discovers the hiding place of a recently escaped killer. Although he manages to escape, the killer is determined to kill every witness. Not a good idea for Michael to look for Sthutz among h

Schattenboxer

Eddi is just back in town after his imprisonment. He plans to free his African jail comrade Timpe, because the latter will get no asylum in Germany and probably be killed when sent to his country. When freeing Timpe at t

L'Âme Immortelle ‎– Jenseits Der Schatten

The Shadow

The Man in the Shadows: The Incredible Life of Jean Monnet

Who knows the story of the man behind the monuments? How did Jean Monnet, a young cognac merchant, become one of the founding fathers of Europe? Beyond the figure of the "Father of Europe" lies the journey of an adventur

Turkmenistan's Cultural Treasures

To outsiders, Turkmenistan is one of the world's least known countries. For the first time in ten years, a film crew has been free to visit spectacular excavation sites and follow international researchers into areas tha

Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten

Expressionst film about animated shadows.

Licht und Schatten – Der Filmemacher Kurt Früh

Hitler's Family: In the Shadow of the Dictator

Adolf Hitler consistently hushed up or denied his family lineage for fear that his ragtag bunch of ancestors and living relatives could tarnish his reputation or expose his imperfect Aryan background. His family had a hi

Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war. The session is introduced by a clip from the Russian film maker Sergei Parajanov’s 1961 film entitled The Ukranian Rhaps

The Treasure

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action.