Movies: Gerd Conradt

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and ...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist....

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm....

The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest....

After an extensive prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality....

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin....

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (...

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin....

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Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circ...

In September 1983, a sword is forged into a ploughshare in Wittenberg. It is the most spectacular action of the peace movement in the GDR. Its initiator was the Wittenberg theologian Friedrich Schorlemmer....

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics....

In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation -...

A Soldier gets harrased by two young man and one old man....

Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg....

Gerd Conradt sits with Frederic Rzewski to have a chat on music. This conversation takes place in Montiano, Italy on August 14th, 1999....

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict....

The Afro-Berliner DJane Sweety, the Italian karate teacher Gino and his German half-brother Ninja are in deep trouble. They fight for survival: Against a powerful mobster and two nasty real estate sharks who demand a lot of money from them. They only...

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Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight....