Helma Sanders-Brahms Movies

  • 1995
    Lumière & Company

    Lumière & Company

    Lumière & Company

    6.31995HD

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

    Lumière & Company
  • 2008
    Clara

    Clara

    Clara

    5.2222008HD

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

    Clara
  • 1975
    Earthquake in Chile

    Earthquake in Chile

    Earthquake in Chile

    5.11975HD

    Tutor Jeronimo and heiress Josephe fall in love but are quickly torn from one another by execution and jail. However, when fate intervenes in the...

    Earthquake in Chile
  • 1977
    Heinrich

    Heinrich

    Heinrich

    51977HD

    The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

    Heinrich
  • 1980
    Germany Pale Mother

    Germany Pale Mother

    Germany Pale Mother

    6.91980HD

    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 Anna...

    Germany Pale Mother
  • 1974
    The Last Days of Gomorrah

    The Last Days of Gomorrah

    The Last Days of Gomorrah

    01974HD

    Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days...

    The Last Days of Gomorrah
  • 1976
    Shirin's Wedding

    Shirin's Wedding

    Shirin's Wedding

    3.31976HD

    In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a...

    Shirin's Wedding
  • 1985
    The Future of Emily

    The Future of Emily

    The Future of Emily

    5.71985HD

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

    The Future of Emily
  • 1987
    Laputa

    Laputa

    Laputa

    51987HD

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

    Laputa
  • 1988
    Felix

    Felix

    Felix

    2.51988HD

    Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On...

    Felix
  • 1975
    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

    41975HD

    West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand
  • 1989
    Manöver

    Manöver

    Manöver

    01989HD

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

    Manöver
  • 1973
    Die Maschine

    Die Maschine

    Die Maschine

    01973HD

    Documentary by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

    Die Maschine
  • 1971
    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged

    01971HD

    Documentary about the everyday routine of the sales assistant Angelika Urban.

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged
  • 1994
    Jews in Berlin

    Jews in Berlin

    Jews in Berlin

    01994HD

    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...

    Jews in Berlin
  • 1997
    My Heart Is Mine Alone

    My Heart Is Mine Alone

    My Heart Is Mine Alone

    4.41997HD

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

    My Heart Is Mine Alone
  • 1981
    No Mercy, No Future

    No Mercy, No Future

    No Mercy, No Future

    41981HD

    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, believing...

    No Mercy, No Future
  • 1971
    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    Die industrielle Reservearmee

    01971HD

    TV short film by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

    Die industrielle Reservearmee
  • 1971
    Gewalt

    Gewalt

    Gewalt

    01971HD

    TV movie by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

    Gewalt
  • 1987
    Hermann My Father

    Hermann My Father

    Hermann My Father

    01987HD

    "Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the...

    Hermann My Father