Knut Elstermann Movies

A documentary that delves into the creative, often humorous world of audio dubbing a Hollywood motion picture for the international market.

In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break out of their miserable daily lives. In this East German post-wall movie Andreas Dresen introduces the sad everyday life of two couples from Frankfurt an...

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for people and their fates runs through his extensive film work. For his 70th birthday he has now made 70 new short films. In the first part of the big...

Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.

DEFA made several science fiction films that are hardly known today. These productions, called "utopian films" in the GDR, show astonishing technical achievements. ...Science fiction at DEFA was never a war of the stars, no alien invasion, but in most cases an establishment of contact with the...

Holocaust survivor, Gerda Schrage, shares her experience about giving birth to her child in Auschwitz.