Helke Sander Movies

At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a detaile...

Documentary showing the daily routine of Sander’s seven year old son, Silvo.

A young German soldier named Paul goes AWOL and returns to his childhood home in the countryside. Over a few summer days, Paul evades the responsibili...

A documentary with fictious elements. Ms. Elisabeth (Lieschen) Müller from Austria comes to Bonn, Germany to find herself a man. During the search she...

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she e...

Filmmaker and author Helke Sander is an icon not only of the women's movement, but also of new German cinema. Historical upheavals sometimes only need...

Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time...

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The pat...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany...

Analysis of an incident in Nazi Germany involving a man and a jewish woman.

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the...

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalis...

Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic. In the end ev...

Set in contemporary Vienna, the film involves a photographer, Anna, who discovers that extraterrestrial beings are colonizing the minds of her fellow...

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training...

A documentary essay on the 1960s women's liberation movement in Germany and it's developments and conflicts through the following decades.

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helk...