Peter Heller

Der neue gute Deutsche (2024)

Verkaufte Götter (2021)

Life Saaraba Illegal (2017)

Sweet Poison (2012)

Half a trillion dollars have been spent on the international aid machine in the last 50 years and it just keeps on pumping. It's an industry that's unquestionable and supported by the world's biggest celebrities; Bono, Bob Geldof, Angelina Jolie ... But re ...

Kolonialmama – Eine Reise in die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit (2009)

The director explores the colonial history of his own family. ...

Plattln in Umtata (2007)

The Bavarian trio "Die Biermösl Blosn" travels to Africa with child, cones and instruments to compare themselves with the music world there. ...

Der Bildhauer Stephan Balkenhol (2006)

The sculptor Stephan Balkenhol is a world star on the German art scene. Yet the artist has remained as down-to-earth as his figures themselves. His wooden people fetch top prices at auctions at Christie's, Sothebie's and Co. Despite the trend towards abstr ...

Hotel Radium - Die verbotene Stadt (2005)

With its rich silver mines, the medieval town of Jáchymov had given its name to the dollar. A few centuries later, the town gave face to the horror of Soviet terror in Central Europe. The film tells of the second and terrible face of the old and idyllic s ...

Mother for Life (2004)

The film follows the life of a large family over three decades and generations. The rising saga of a formerly homeless family survived since the mid-seventies solely thanks to the mother's figure, the strength and bond of this "Mama General". Following her ...

Most - Nachruf auf eine alte Stadt (1999)

In order to expand coal mining, the traditional town of Most in the Czech Republic was razed to the ground. Old buildings were demolished, a Gothic church was relocated, nature was poisoned, people were forced out of their environment. Only in the minds of ...

Mama General (1997)

A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homeless asylum. The author met the Cologne family B. for the first time in 1976. Living with debts, installments, reminders, living with the certainty that the ...

Sieg im Osten (1993)

The army of the GDR, called NVA had not survived the reunification of Germany, it was completely absorbed by the Bundeswehr and scrapped subsequently. But what apparently went on so smoothly as a peaceful unification of hostile brothers quietly left deep s ...

Der Pornojäger - Eine Hatz zwischen Lust und Politik (1990)

Documentary portrait of the Austrian farmer's son and village photographer Martin Humer, who as a "porn hunter" leads a dubious campaign against porn bars, peep shows and sex stores. His methods have made him enemies, including his worst adversary, a porn ...

Adalil - Die Herrin der Zelte (1990)

The film shows the life of women in a tent camp on the edge of the Sahara. An old nomad woman and her daughter from the city argue about happiness - where do you find happiness, in the desert or city. Women and men in open dispute about love, suffering and ...

Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben (1988)

Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining fatherl ...

African Lady - Die Kinder von Foufou und Coca Cola (1988)

The film tells the story of two POC teenagers from a traditional polygamous family, daughters of a father and different mothers from the same homestead: interior views from a distant everyday life. Two young women, their hopes, fears and dreams of having c ...

Shatfon - Das Erbe der Frauen (1987)

The film tells the story of three women from the sultan's harem in an African kingdom, from three different generations, and documents 100 years of change: interventions of Islam and Europeans, tensions and contradictions between traditional identity and t ...

Dschungelburger - Hackfleischordnung international (1986)

Wie andere Neger auch (1983)

A black ethnologist explores aspects of German life in West Germany in the early 1980s with a foreign eye - and meets with rejection because she dares to look at Europeans with the same tools as they have used for centuries in Africa. ...

Der vergessene Führer: Aufstieg und Fall des Medienzaren Alfred Hugenberg (1982)

Die Liebe zum Imperium (1978)

Von Liebe ganz zu schweigen (1978)

Mama und Papa - Afrikaner als Untermieter (1973)

A short directed by Michael Bückner. ...