Sandro Botticelli, geboren 1445, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern der Renaissance. Die Dokumentation beleuchtet erstmals das Leben des Florentiner Künstlers, der wie kaum ein anderer Maler die Kunst der Gegenwart inspiriert hat. Die Kunsthistorikerin und Filmemacherin Grit Lederer spürte in Florenz und Paris, New York und Berlin dem Phänomen Botticelli nach. Was ist das Geheimnis seiner Bilder? Warum war er bald nach seinem Tod jahrhundertelang vergessen? Warum schickte Benito Mussolini die Werke Botticellis Anfang des Zweiten Weltkriegs nach New York? Warum sind Botticellis frivole Zeichnungen so selten zu sehen? Und: Wie hat Botticelli einst eigentlich gelebt?

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.

2012 film by Peter Gersina

Over 40 years ago, Josefa left her home village in a dispute. A lot has happened in the meantime. Now she returns as a mature woman to where she is still known as a man.

1971 film by Reinhard Hauff

deutscher Spielfilm

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?

1988 film

television series

Documentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin.

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.