In his film, Rosa von Praunheim approaches the famous communist theater director Erwin Piscator by developing irreverent improvisations in the spirit of Piscator together with acting students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in East Berlin. Interspersed with this are statements by theater professor Peter Jung, which serve as a biographical guide and shed light on the background of Piscator's epic and total theater.

Max and Fay meet on a train. The two become emotionally close. She dreams of him as a hero. Max would like to see her as Marylin Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

Cornelia Froboess and Christian Doermer are looking for Theodor Fontane in Berlin today. A small plot in loosely linked scenes holds the whole thing together. Cornelia Froboess recites poems and prose texts by the Brandenburg poet set to music.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt about New Wave music.

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

Philipp Melanchthon decisively shaped the history of the Reformation in Germany and renewed German education. In the shadow of his fatherly friend Martin Luther, he tirelessly tried to reconcile Reformation and humanism, Protestantism and Catholicism.

Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a West German construction company.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.

The first part of the film shows parallels between Christianity and Marxism. The second part describes the influence of both the Judeo-Christian background and that of other religious critics on Marx's position as a critic of religion. Beyond the well-known facts, this documentary not only analyzes the historical background of Karl Marx's life and work, but also deals in particular with his personal relationship to Christianity.

A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the 20th century.