Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Movies

This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a...

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy....

"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...

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

This Ecce Homo is an impressive statement of life beyond the death of an artist "of the descent of Dionysus".

An ascent to the mountain in Tyrol with the music of Mozart.

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century...

Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream...

This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

Interview with German softcore film director Alois Brummer

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...

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.

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...

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.

Die Nacht ("The night") is a 1985 West German installation film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. It consists of a six hours long monologue...

Hans Jürgen Syberberg grew up in the town of Demmin, the subject of his current film. The history of the town, in which a mass suicide with...