Movies: Eckart Stein

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, w...

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard....

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper....

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship....

A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984....

The 24-year-old Ekkehard is shocked by the suicide of Hans Georg, a young man under his care, and moves into his room because he initially believes that the causes of the suicide can be found in this environment. In his search for the reasons, his pe...

A portrait of a family in Berlin in the late 1970s, this film focuses on the mother....

A portrait of a woman’s life between 1915 and 1975. In Jutta Brückner’s documentary, her mother looks back at the 60 years of her life, talking about her father’s early accidental death, the constraints faced by a lower middle-class family of five, h...

It's a perfectly ordinary day in Rita's life: early in the morning her lover from last night left the apartment, and Rita doesn't dare to go back to work after she stole money in the telephone cabin the day before....

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A German TV movie...