What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself these questions as he sifted through material he had been collecting since a project idea in 2008. Since then, he has repeatedly taken cameras into cinemas that no longer exist. He shot commercials, short films or events at the Grindel-Kino, Streit's, Rialto and Savoy and many other Hamburg movie theaters. In these personal perspectives, we see many cultural places that have disappeared.

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the...

The film follows the career of detective inspector Marianne Atzeroth-Freier through the Hamburg poli...

In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - hu...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El ...
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

Music as a counter-project to a bourgeois existence: Musicians, club and label operators, record sto...
A tour of Hamburg's hotels, entertainment venues, and St. Pauli.
The film shows the course of the Alster from its source to Jungfernstieg in Hamburg.
Short film about Hamburg, the industrial city and major transshipment hub.