Movies: Helke Misselwitz
- 1990
Biology! (1990)
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A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity works properly. Economy of scarcity and national bankruptcy are visible everywhere. Only higher party ...
- 1989
After Winter Comes Spring (1989)
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A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made...
- 1985
Tango (1985)
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A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20t...
- 1992
Herzsprung (1992)
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In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and ...
- 2023
The Diaries of Adam and Eve (2023)
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Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very dif...
- 1997
Little Angel (1997)
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Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pre...
- 1997
Das 7. Jahr – Ansichten zur Lage der Nation (1997)
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- 1991
Bulky Trash (1991)
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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 call themselves "Bulk Rubbish" and they drum out their resentment, having grown up on the new housing estat...
- 1989
Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman (1989)
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Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and understanding. Her seven male employees respect her. To the outside world, they are all tough guys, but a...
- 1985
Tango Dream (1985)
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Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far away, a different world where, long ago, the tango came into being. A dream about dance and music, as well as about unfulfilled desire and wanderlust...
- 2001
Fremde Oder (2001)
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Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz....
- 1996
Meine Liebe, deine Liebe (1996)
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Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz....
- 1982
Haus. Frauen. – Eine Collage (1982)
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- 1984
Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze (1984)
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Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her photography. She considers the stereotype of superficial nude photography anachronistic, and talks vi...
- 2019
Helga Paris, Fotografin (2019)
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- 1988
Marx Family (1988)
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A moving short portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their living conditions during their time in London....
- 1980
Ein Leben (1980)
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- 2021
The Poet’s Wife (2021)
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The paintings of the artist Güler Yücel tell about weddings and funerals, of almond blossom and olive harvest, of her husband, the poet, and of herself, her love of life and wisdom. “I can’t paint anything that I have not seen”, says Güler Yücel....
- 1994
Leben ein Traum (1994)
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- 1985
35 Photos (1985)
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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. This short was to premiere on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of East Germany. Officials rejected it, h...