Bernd Eichinger

Bernd Eichinger erzählt...

The German producer Bernd Eichinger talks about his career.

Mythos Metropolis

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion

Documentary about the German director Uli Edel

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

666: In Bed with the Devil

Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperation is the best reason for Mephisto to show up and offer a suitable pact: reconciliation with Jennifer in exchange for Frank's soul. Shaken by his predicament, Frank finds it easy to agree to the hellish proposal. In order to win back his renegade lover, Mephisto transforms himself into a wide variety of prominent contemporaries who appear at Frank's side and publicly praise his qualities - especially for Jennifer to hear. The plan seems to be working perfectly, unless Mephisto suddenly reveals a completely new side to his personality...

Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Perry Rhodan - Der ewige Kosmonaut

When the first adventure of the cosmonaut appeared in 1961 with "Unternehmen Stardust", not even the two German authors, Clark Darlton and K.H. Scheer, had any idea of the tenacity of their hero.

Pictures of Europe

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.

King Kongs Faust

Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.

The NeverEnding Story

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.