Lilly Grote

Judenburg findet Stadt (2011)

Documentary about Austrian city Judenburg and its art scene. ...

Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen's career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who ...

Ein Fremder (2001)

Sixty years after the Holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on Jewish life in Germany in the early 2000s. ...

Die Markus Family (2001)

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus also builds strange machine-like beings and wishes that he himself were a biological robot, or cyborg. ...

Daily Chicken (1997)

Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident. ...

Bombenwerfer (1996)

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred thousand letters falling from the sky." The letters are memories and trauma. No one talks about them. The boy kn ...

Berlin, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, 1990 (1991)

A changing of track. Observations and interviews with border guards and commuters at Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station in 1990, as the border between East and West Germany was becoming ever more porous and this crossing was already being dismantled. ...

The Germans and Their Men (1990)

A documentary with fictious elements. Ms. Elisabeth (Lieschen) Müller from Austria comes to Bonn, Germany to find herself a man. During the search she investigates the connections between neckties, political power and prostitution, and tries to look for t ...

Inside - Outside (1989)

Tenderness (1985)

Stories from the lesbian subculture in West Berlin, about being in love, clichés, desire, and conflict – "shot as a narrative, with real lesbians at real locations about real feelings". ...

Ariel (1985)

After the short story of Franz Kafka "Unhappiness". A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: "Go out of my way, ...

Oder was sonst noch geschah (1982)

A man and a woman fall in love, and get involved in a crime story. ...

BRDDR (1981)

Documentary short. ...

Lebende Photographien auf einem laufenden Bande (1979)

Documentary about the film pioneer Guido Seeber. ...

Beobachtungen auf Station 33 (1979)

At the documentary film seminar given by Gisela Tuchtenhagen at the dffb in 1979, three documentary portraits of women were made that were combined under the title "Küche, Theater, Krankenhaus" (Kitchen, Theatre, Krankenhaus). Students Lilly Grote, Irina ...

Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen's career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who ...

Ariel (1985)

After the short story of Franz Kafka "Unhappiness". A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: "Go out of my way, ...