Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

A 7 hour examination of the Hitler phenomenon which swept pre-Nazi Germany

'He had that perfect Austrian warmth and understanding': Winifred Wagner (78-year-old widow of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried) on the human face and personal charm of Adolf Hitler. Hitler's passion for Wagner inevitably led him to Winifred, organiser of the Bayreuth Festival. During their 22-year friendship, to whose memory she is stubbornly faithful, Hitler doted on her family and mentioned nothing of politics...

Sedlmayr leads the audience in his role as a former court cook, like a tour guide through the castles of Linderhof, Neuschwanstein and the Berghaus Schachen of King Ludwig II. He tells his story from the beginning of his career as a kitchen boy at the court.

An adaptation, but also very much an interpretation, of Wagner's opera.

Avant-garde portrait of the king of Bavaria.

Avant-garde biography of the influential German children's author.

A six-hour monologue by Edith Clever, mostly screened as an art installation, during which she reads the words of Syberberg and many others.

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.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's adaptation of Kleist's play.

Syberberg's adaptation of Kleist's novella.

Written and directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, this stars Edith Clever as Sybille von Bismarck, the daughter-in-law of Otto von Bismarck. She recites a monologue in which she reads from The Trojan Women by Euripides, The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist and Faust: Part II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

In her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom's monologue from James Joyce's "Ulysses" (IMDb).

In his first film after a 25-year creative hiatus, Hans Jürgen Syberberg focuses on the town of Demmin, where he grew up. The history of the town, where a mass suicide took place at the end of the Second World War, killing hundreds of people, plays an important role. In his film, Syberberg documents his attempts, initiated decades ago, to re-establish Demmin's central market square as a place of community. (imdb)