Thomas Sessner

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.

Verstörung - und eine Art von Poesie. Die Filmlegende Bernhard Wicki

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

Fassbinder in Hollywood

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).