Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseatic city to initiate the establishment of a new, liberal German radio station - in the Funkhaus on Rothenbaumchaussee. But Hacker also has private ties to Hamburg. He was born here and lived here until he had to leave his hometown on a Jewish Kindertransport.

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...

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

The film follows the career of detective inspector Marianne Atzeroth-Freier through the Hamburg poli...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...

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

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

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

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

What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself t...

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.