Holger Meins

The Words of the Chairman (2025)

I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin. There were protests, a student was shot, and a new form of opposition movement came into existence. The idea fo ...

Wie baue ich einen Molotow-Cocktail ? (1968)

Instructions on how to make a Molotov Cocktail ...

Western for the SDS (1968)

West­ern for the SDS por­trays the de­vel­op­ment of the left as a learn­ing pro­cess among wo­m­en who shar­p­en their aware­ness in the move­ment but cont­in­ue to have no say. The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the film is shown in the ...

Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty (1968)

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam. ...

Machen wir den Tegeler Weg zur Kochstrasse (1968)

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight. ...

3000 Houses (1967)

"Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can't agree on the topic. In the end everybody goes their own way and leaves the city. ...

Anfangszeiten (1967)

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike. ...

Subjectivity (1967)

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin. ...

Der Kandidat (1967)

Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal (1966)

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin. ...

Riffi (1966)

An emotional dialogue between a man and a woman, around whom a camera circles in a 360-degree turn. ...

One Brachet Close Brachet (1966)

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far as the Lüneburg Heath. There, he meets a woman driving a Jaguar, protects her from an "attack" by a light s ...

Das Vöglein (1966)

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict. ...

A German Youth (2015)

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journ ...

Über Holger Meins – Ein Versuch, unsere Sicht heute (1982)

Film essay on Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt's former colleague who died on hunger strike in 1975. ...

Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (1976)

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement. This film is comprised of interviews with his associates. ...

Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma (1969)

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training contracts of 18 students. While Director Heinz Rathsack dictates to his secretary Helene Schwarz the lette ...

Color Test: The Red Flag (1968)

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor's seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symb ...

Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty (1968)

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam. ...

Subjectivity (1967)

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin. ...

Situationen (1967)

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics. ...