Helma Sanders-Brahms

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize ...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under ...

No folkore, no rituals, no klezmer, no political statements, no twee Berlin Jewish quarters. This film is an attempt to make an imageless film; a ...

When East Germany ceases to be separate from its western half, one would think that things would be better for the couple in this movie who have ...

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) …

Within four episodes (“Er am Ende”, “Muss ich aufpassen”, “Eva” and “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” ) ...

Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a ...

“Hermann mein Vater” is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film “Germany Pale Mother”. The ...

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her ...

A TV movie in episodes by a group of female filmmakers.

TV Movie by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She’s religious, ...

A documentary film by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter ...