An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.
Film Archive



Eleven-year-old Jésùs lives in Mexico City and has a very special way to school: Every morning he and his little sister row a boat through a network of canals.

Koolee’s path to school takes her over the dust-dry roads of Australia. Koolee is an Aborigine, but their language is not on the timetable at school.

In this documentary we are introduced to Rania. She looks forward to school every day, because not all the children in her home are allowed to study.

El Alto, Bolivia, is growing fast – wild, but not shapeless.

Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television.

Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.

Traffic on the B 61 through the spa town of Bad Oeynhausen is permanently gridlocked. The promised cure is a bypass whose construction is documented here: with residents and passers-by.

Life is no picnic, especially not for Kurdish bachelors in Istanbul. Seven seasonal workers live in an unusual flat share in a dilapidated house.

Markus is the Honorary Mayor of Tröglitz. Together with his wife, he campaigns for taking in forty refugees in 2015. That’s when “his” commune suddenly shows a strange and ugly face.

A filmed reading, the past evoked. A historical-political essay about how to deal with German guilt, based on texts by the French resistance fighter Robert Antelme.

The border town of Frankfurt on the Oder is portrayed as symbolising central issues of a design of society and the state under socialist auspices.

“Gloria Kosmetika” – radiant and confident, two women promote cosmetic products on their video channel, along the lines of: You’re naturally beautiful, but there’s room for improvement.

Confidentially but resolutely, a young woman leans toward us and begins the personality optimisation treatment.