Elke Petri

Väter und Söhne (2016)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001)

Second part of Goethe's Tragedy ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001)

Unabridged production of Goethe's Faust Ⅰ by Peter Stein's Faust Project. ...

Niemanns Zeit - Ein deutscher Heimatfilm (1985)

A lone scholar researches the visual and textual worlds of National Socialism. The film approaches a critical understanding of "German identity" from a multimedia perspective - off-screen commentary is superimposed over shots of paintings, literary quotati ...

Big and Little (1980)

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß. ...

Summer Guests (1976)

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky. ...