Movies: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- 1977
Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
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This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a child during World War II, doesn't try to recreate history to the letter. Instead, he places his actors -...
- 1972
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)
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Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972....
- 2023
The Last Days of Humanity (2023)
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The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed....
- 1995
The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)
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A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers....
- 2011
El Mito de Narciso (2011)
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"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives. Making a life is difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about th...
- 2004
The Ister (2004)
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The Ister is a 3000km journey to the heart of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube river on the Black Sea, to its source in the German Black Forest. Hailed by Scott Foundas of Variety as "a philosophical feast—at which it is possible to gorge oneself...
- 1974
Karl May (1974)
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This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popula...
- 1965
Fünfter Akt, siebente Szene. Fritz Kortner probt Kabale und Liebe (1965)
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This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous precision in linguistic expression and gestural construction....
- 1982
Parsifal (1982)
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A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. The action is centered on Wagner’s death mask. Kundry is the main character – one might read the film as the ...
- 1976
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
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BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
- 1970
San Domingo (1970)
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This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money. She falls in love with...
- 2023
Leaving and Staying (2023)
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Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson’s sophisticated literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from...
- 1970
Sex-Business: Made in Pasing (1970)
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Interview with German softcore film director Alois Brummer...
- 1967
Romy: Anatomy of a Face (1967)
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Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltungskino" ("entertainment cinema") and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress....
- 1985
The Night (1985)
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Die Nacht ("The night") is a 1985 West German installation film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. It consists of a six hours long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang v...
- 1989
Penthesilea (1989)
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- 1978
The Confessions of Winifred Wagner (1978)
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975....
- 1987
Fräulein Else (1987)
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TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress....
- 1969
Scarabea – How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1969)
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A Teutonic lecher on vacation has a wager with some local peasants that he can't make a walking circle from sunrise to sunset to secure some coveted land. The middle-aged businessman embarks on his journey only to be slowed down by the beautiful repo...
- 1973
Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird (1973)
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Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the...