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.

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

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.

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

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

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...
A group of punks is observed and interviewed on a square in Hamburg-Ottensen. In close-ups, characte...

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

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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...

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets ...