Helke Misselwitz

Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz.

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally ...

Clearing the sea of lignite, miners move excavators from one colossal mass to the next, which they strip. They float with dreamlike ease, like ...

In the little town of Herzsprung – whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts – almost nothing has changed since ...

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys ...

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with ...

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, ...

A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London.

Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the ...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango ...

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. ...

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on “nude photography of women in East Germany”. It’s a subject she ...

Paul Celan’s poem echoes. A drive reveals a long-abandoned Gründerzeit villa in ruin. Inside, a woman in elegant WWI attire dances, then slumps ...