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.
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...

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

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...
A group of punks is observed and interviewed on a square in Hamburg-Ottensen. In close-ups, characte...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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

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

In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - hu...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

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 ...

In this long-term documentary, a film team follows the struggle of the residents of the Esso houses ...

Music as a counter-project to a bourgeois existence: Musicians, club and label operators, record sto...

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement...