Following the life of the eccentric Aunt Flora, a woman of great imagination and curiosity. When her niece, Seraphine, visits her in a small town, she uncovers a world of peculiar happenings, strange traditions, and unexpected adventures. As Aunt Flora's colorful personality and quirky ways draw...
This movie is about the liberation by the Sandinistas of the Anastasio Somoza regime in NIcaragua. The movie covers some of te key points in the fight for León, a city close to the capital Managua, and the first liberated territory. Many of the inhabitants of León who participated in the...
1919. Released from the teacher training college, Joachim Hofer takes up his first job as an assistant teacher in an Alsatian village. But only a few students come to class in the pigsty converted to school.
The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of U.S. military policy and the living conditions of former resistance fighters in Latin America.
Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly existence of Peter O'Hey and his family is shaken one day by the announcement that a tiger has taken up residence in his bathroom. The state, represented by a civil servant, a tax collector and a protocol...
The handicapped John Tuthill Crane is seized by his mother with "cannibal love". The heavily rich woman knows how to arrange his life in such a way that he is and remains dependent on her in every way. In his 37th year, John meets a girl on a vacation trip who also claims him completely for...
The two-part film "Noon in Tunisia" by Peter Lilienthal is a meeting of jazz and Arabic music at various public or open-air venues in Tunisia. Under the direction of George Gruntz, European and US jazz musicians play his suite-like composition "Maghreb Cantata", which is based on original Bedouin...
A left-behind woman, through a surprising act, comes to receive two marriage proposals in one day, both of which she accepts, leading to grief and trouble for her and others involved.
60 years after the holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on jewish life in Germany in the early 2000s.
