City of Angels
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders...
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Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the...
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Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live...
See moreThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly...
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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own...
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A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires...
See moreChronik der laufenden Ereignisse
About two young men who come to the city in need of new experiences and some action. But life in the city is such that there was nothing left to...
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Four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its “performance.” TV recording of the...
See moreShort Letter to the Long Goodbye
A young German man who has just arrived in America, hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. However, he soon discovers that his ex-wife is...
See more3 American LPs
Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three...
See moreThe Malady of Death
In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is...
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Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
See moreKaspar
Related to the well-known story of how a young man, who came to be called Kaspar Hauser, appeared in a German town in 1828, apparently not able to...
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