Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Movies

This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy....

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological...

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

A Teutonic lecher on vacation has a wager with some local peasants that he can't make a walking circle from sunrise to sunset to secure some coveted...

The Ister is a 3000km journey to the heart of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube river on the Black Sea, to its source in the German Black Forest....

This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a...

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century...

"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives. Making a life is...

Interview with German softcore film director Alois Brummer

This Ecce Homo is an impressive statement of life beyond the death of an artist "of the descent of Dionysus".

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.

Die Nacht ("The night") is a 1985 West German installation film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. It consists of a six hours long monologue...

Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the...

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

Film by Syberberg.