HISTORY

  • HITLER’S CULTURE CAPITAL

    HITLER’S CULTURE CAPITAL

    Linz in Austria was supposed to become a model of “Aryan” culture, the perfect National Socialist city. Hitler spent nine years of his childhood in Linz. He planned to transform the provincial town into a cultural capital with the “Führermuseum” at its centre. A study of the object of Hitler’s visions and fantasies.

  • LETTERS WITHOUT SIGNATURE / LONDON CALLING

    LETTERS WITHOUT SIGNATURE / LONDON CALLING

    Until 1975, in the weekly radio programme “Letters without Signature”, the BBC read out letters written anonymously by GDR citizens. They were complaints about the economy, censorship, the socialist state. For the BBC, this was an act of freedom of expression, for the Stasi treason. The writers were mercilessly persecuted and some severely punished.

  • PENICILLIN – A MEDICAL REVOLUTION

    PENICILLIN – A MEDICAL REVOLUTION

    Once celebrated as a life saver, penicillin today is alarming researchers all over the world: over 70% of aggressive germs are now resistant to the alleged wonder drug. A development its inventor Alexander Fleming had foreseen. A fascinating film about the history and current state of antibiotics.

  • WITCH HUNT – THE MECHANICS OF MASS HYSTERIA

    WITCH HUNT – THE MECHANICS OF MASS HYSTERIA

    Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The pogrom was triggered by the book “Malleus Maleficarum”, published in 1486. Its detailed instructions for persecuting and annihilating alleged witches triggered a mass hysteria.

  • MEETING OF SPIES

    MEETING OF SPIES

    While leading middle-class lives in the GDR as a cook, forester and car mechanic, Norbert, Raimund and Eberhard spied for the BND and CIA between the 1950s and 80s. All three were exposed and imprisoned. They tell their extraordinary stories for the first time.

  • BACK TO THE FATHERLAND

    BACK TO THE FATHERLAND

    Life in Israel is stressful, but this is not the only reason why young secular, liberal Jews like Dan, Guy and Gil turn their back on the “holy land”. They decide to move to Germany and Austria – of all places. A slap in the face for their families. Why return to the land of the perpetrators? A process of emancipation with a special responsibility.

  • BUGATTI – ART, DESIGN AND SPEED

    BUGATTI – ART, DESIGN AND SPEED

    Bugatti was a family of fanatics and artists, engineers and architects who built cars, created sculptures and designed extravagant furniture. We tell the story of Ettore Bugatti and his family which is still a myth today despite – or perhaps because of – its turbulent past.

  • SALONIKA – A CITY WITH AMNESIA

    SALONIKA – A CITY WITH AMNESIA

    Thessaloniki’s status as a cosmopolitan city and religious and cultural melting pot ended abruptly in the 20th century. Despite numerous witnesses of the city’s past, it is almost as if the era when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together never happened at all. We take a look at the city’s tumultuous past.

  • LEGACY

    LEGACY

    They say post-war generations in Germany bear no blame, but they bear responsibility. Our film focuses – 70 years after the end of World War Two – on people whose fathers and grandfathers were perpetrators, sympathisers and also victims. Will they succeed in teaching future generations about the responsibility of history?

  • FRANCO ON TRIAL – THE SPANISH NUREMBERG?

    FRANCO ON TRIAL – THE SPANISH NUREMBERG?

    So far, no one has been brought to justice for the atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) or Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975). In 2013, an Argentinean initiative launched a new attempt to prosecute Franco officials. Will the so-called Argentinean trials become the Spanish Nuremberg?

  • SHADOWS OF WAR

    SHADOWS OF WAR

    World War Two from the Soviet perspective: What became of the war after war? How did it define the Soviet Union? Three million Red Army soldiers died in German prisoner-of-war camps. A crime that is rarely talked about, but one that was documented from the beginning on photos and film. Above all by the perpetrators themselves.

  • NEW DRESSES, DARK PAST – HERERO OF NAMIBIA

    NEW DRESSES, DARK PAST – HERERO OF NAMIBIA

    Passionate fashion designer Mc Bright Kavari modernises the traditional costumes of Herero women in Namibia. He wants his dresses to keep alive memories of Namibia’s painful colonial past and the genocide that was committed against the Herero people.