The film consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis.

A prodigious Indian mathematician has to overcome poverty and prejudices and make a mark with the he...

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his da...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
Dramatization of the life of legendary transgender cabaret and drag performer Marie-Pierre Pruvot, a...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...