Eberhard Fechner

Walerjan Wrobel's Homesickness (1992)

The story of Walerjan Wrobel, who was taken from occupied Poland to Germany for forced labor in 1941. ...

Chronist des einzigartig Normalen (1989)

Documentary about director and actor Eberhard Fechner ...

Ödipussi (1988)

Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took ...

Abschiedsvorstellung (1986)

A classical who-dunnit-detective-story in an unusual setting: In the retirement-home for aging stage-artists "Ewige Rampe", an overly engaged doctor discovers what seems to be a murder by poison. The victim is the only inhabitant of the home who was not on ...

Grabbe's Last Summer (1980)

Depiction of the short life of the influential, troubled playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Impoverished and suffering from illness, Grabbe returns to his hometown of Detmold in 1823 seeking peace and reconciliation. His final days are marked by rapidl ...

Von Emma, Türkenpaul und Edwin mit der Geige (1976)

Lisa - Aus dem Leben einer Unentbehrlichen (1974)

Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel (1971)

Nachrede auf Klara Heydebreck (1971)

Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968. ...

The Harvest of My Lai (1970)

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls investigates the massacre of My Lai by U.S. soldiers. ...

Altersgenossen (1969)

Über den Gehorsam. Szenen aus Deutschland, wo die Unterwerfung des eigenen Willens unter einen Fremden als Tugend gilt (1968)

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats (1967)

Zuchthaus (1967)

Socialaristokraten (1966)

The Rise and Fall of the Magazine "Der Sozialaristokrat". ...

Die Grenzziehung (1966)

Preis der Freiheit (1966)

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the "Soviet zone". Meanwhi ...

One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939 (1965)

Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot. ...

Der Schlaf der Gerechten (1962)

Ein Ausgangstag (1957)

Wolfskinder (1991)

A documentary about an East Prussian refugee family whose children lost each other while wandering from their homeland and were miraculously reunited. Eberhard Fechner interviewed them and describes the exciting experiences of the siblings and gives an ins ...

La Paloma (1989)

The Trial (1984)

In over eight years of research, "Der Prozess" follows the longest criminal proceedings in Germany′s legal history - the "Majdanek Trial". In interviews with judges, the accused, victims and eye witnesses, and with the use of documentary footage and repo ...

Im Damenstift (1984)

Ehreshoven Castle - half an hour from Cologne - is home to 16 countesses, baronesses and baronesses aged between 76 and 88. The moated castle with its old park was bequeathed as a foundation by the last heiress in 1920. Impecunious, unmarried, noble ladies ...

Winterspelt 1944 (1978)

In the Second World War, spring 1944: shortly before the planned Ardennes offensive, Germans and Americans stand waiting on the German-Belgian border. The small Eifel village of Winterspelt threatens to become the scene of a bloody battle. A German officer ...

Comedian Harmonists (1976)

Documentary about the Comedian Harmonists, a German vocal ensemble in the 20s and 30s. ...

Lebensdaten (1976)

Aus nichtigem Anlaß (1976)

Unter Denkmalschutz (1975)

Documentary film. ...

Geheimagenten (1972)

A frustrated Frankfurt innkeeper is recruited as an agent for the "Gehlen Organization" and after a short training period, during which he is familiarized with sophisticated espionage methods, he takes his first steps as a spy. When the really big assignme ...

Nachrede auf Klara Heydebreck (1971)

Documentary research on the traces of a female pensioner, who committed suicide in Berlin in winter 1968. ...

Klassenphoto (1971)

In this two-part documentary, Eberhard Fechner reconstructs the story of a class of pupils who passed their A-levels at Berlin's Lessing-Gymnasium in 1937. The starting point for the research is the class photo that gives the film its title. The conversati ...

Gezeiten (1970)

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father and, for the sake of his wife, becomes an innkeeper ashore, but he is still driven by wanderlust. ...

Der Versager (1969)

A 45-year-old employee's future begins to falter. He rightly fears that he will fall victim to his new manager's rationalization measures. But he doesn't want to bow to his "fate" so easily: in the fight for his livelihood, he resorts to dirty means himsel ...

Damenquartett (1969)

Vier Stunden von Elbe 1 (1968)

Four hours by boat from the lightship Elbe 1 is the southern entrance and lock of the Kiel Canal. There, in Brunsbüttelkoog, is a seamen's home run by Klara Andresen. This is the main setting of the movie. In the sailors' wives' home, the wives of sailors ...

Selbstbedienung (1967)