Helma Sanders-Brahms Movies

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Documentary by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a...

The film comprises a total of six episodes: in each, the authors seek to highlight the personal problems and feelings of three French and three...

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days...

TV movie by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Lucy, who is already human-like, claims that the first humans were mothers: The mother built a nest to secure the child when it became too heavy to...

Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish...

When East Germany ceases to be separate from its western half, one would think that things would be better for the couple in this movie who have been...

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna...

"Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the...

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to...

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her...

Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are combined into a militant appeal for solidarity.

Documentary about the everyday routine of the sales assistant Angelika Urban.

TV Movie by Helma Sanders-Brahms.