Movies: Helma Sanders-Brahms
- 1995
Lumière and Company (1995)
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40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,...
- 1985
The Future of Emily (1985)
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Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle...
- 1988
Felix (1988)
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Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Sylt he meets two nymphomaniac women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and la...
- 1977
Heinrich (1977)
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The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist....
- 1976
Shirin's Wedding (1976)
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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 small village in Turkey in search of him....
- 2008
Clara (2008)
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A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann....
- 1999
Muttertier - Muttermensch (1999)
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- 1987
Laputa (1987)
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Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish photographer (Krystyna Janda) and her married French lover Paul (Sami Frey). The two rendezvous in West...
- 1975
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)
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West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society....
- 1980
Germany Pale Mother (1980)
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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 is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives t...
- 1975
Earthquake in Chile (1975)
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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 form of a massive earthquake, the two lovers have no idea what is in store for them....
- 1994
Jews in Berlin (1994)
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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 plea for a religion of imagelessness, of words, of thoughts....
- 1989
Manöver (1989)
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Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ......
- 1974
The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974)
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Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of t...
- 1997
My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
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Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler ...
- 1992
Apple Trees (1992)
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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 been plagued by sexual and political harassment of the most virulent kind, but , they are completely unpr...
- 1983
Die Erbtöchter (1983)
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A TV movie in episodes by a group of female filmmakers....
- 1973
Die Maschine (1973)
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Documentary by Helma Sanders-Brahms....
- 1972
Der Angestellte (1972)
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- 1981
No Mercy, No Future (1981)
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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 she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting...