« En juxtaposant de manière inextricable des extraits de films, des morceaux d'entretiens avec le metteur en scène et ses collaborateurs les plus réguliers, des plans qui vont chercher des équivalents géographiques, des correspondances plastiques ou humaines avec l'œuvre, il (Georges Bensoussan) a presque réussi à se rendre invisible - il a fait quelque chose qui est comme un petit film de Fassbinder lui-même, comme si le cinéaste avait fait là son autoportrait. » Louis Skorecki, « Cahiers du cinéma », n. 322, avril 1981

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival, she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

Ein deutsches TV-Drama

Ein deutsches TV-Drama

1974 film by Lothar Lambert

A beautiful woman, Supergirl Francesca Farnese, appears out of nowhere on a Bavarian highway. She wears only an orange jumpsuit and wants to go to Washington. Playboy Charly first takes her to Lake Starnberg, where she meets best-selling author Evers. He immediately leaves his wife and travels with Francesca to Spain, where he negotiates a project with the American film producer Polonsky. No one remains unimpressed by the mysterious beauty. Supergirl remains elusive— she quickly disappears again, leaving behind a warning to the inhabitants of Earth that an attack from outer space is imminent...

1971 film by Reinhard Hauff

1990 film directed by Ulli Lommel

1969 television film directed by Franz Peter Wirth

1968 film by Franz-Josef Spieker

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.

«Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» documents the eventful life and cinematic legacy of an exceptional Swiss film and opera director. It spans the filmmaker's formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Swiss Alps; follows his escape to a turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love of cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film travels with Schmid through time and around his world: a world situated between reality and fiction.

In Little Godard. To the Production Board for Young German Film, Hamburg’s experimental filmmaker Hellmuth Costard used a Super 8 film system he developed himself that allowed for numerous Super 8 cameras to be synchronised to each other during filming. “Power to Super 8!” was the cry before video cameras became ubiquitous, a low-cost solution for amateurs and even independent professional filmmakers. The content of the film is bookended by an application for a subsidy in which Costard formulates his objection to using the screenplay to evaluate a potential film project…

Viola Shafik's documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk). With actor-turned-filmmaker Ulli Lommel as host and guide (he appeared in Fassbinder's very first feature, Love Is Colder Than Death, in 1969), documentary filmmaker Robert Fischer conducts a tour of Hollywood today, pausing to chat with cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and actress Hanna Schygulla # both charter members of Fassbinder's tight-knit stock company of technicians and players # as well as Wim Wenders, who found the toehold in the studio system that Fassbinder never had. The proceedings are liberally sprinkled with clips from Fassbinder's films, as well as glimpses of a theater company in Los Angeles that specializes in performing the director's plays. As Fischer makes clear, Fassbinder's influence on Hollywood is not only still being felt today, but is gathering a dramatic force that will serve to introduce his oeuvre to a new generation of moviegoers.

Bourbon Street Blues is made after Tennessee Williams' play The Lady Larkspur Lotion. "In a rundown French Quarter boarding house, Mrs Hardwick-Moore, a faded beauty in an alcoholic tailspin, chooses to remain blanketed in her delusional dream world, despite its conflict with the reality presented to her by a brusque landlady. This brief, yet intensely evocative, character study is widely considered to be a preparatory sketch for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.”

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.