Peter Lilienthal

Camilo: The Long Road to Disobedience (2008)

The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of U.S. military policy and the living conditions of former resistance fighters in Latin America. ...

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. ...

Angesichts der Wälder (1995)

Feature film. ...

Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal (1988)

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, ...

The Silence of the Poet (1987)

This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directors, Peter Lilienthal; and is one of the few to be released outside of the country. It is the story of an Israeli poet's struggle to create in an inhospitable environment. The poet is suffe ...

The Autograph (1984)

The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial town in Latin America where they are booked to perform at a folk festival. Both of them are completely apolitical but are forced by external circumstances t ...

Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982)

Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart. ...

The Uprising (1980)

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family's dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead to a civil war, which the Sandinista revolutionaries win – at least for the time being. Against this backdrop, t ...

David (1979)

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several yea ...

Es herrscht Ruhe im Land (1975)

A fictitious country in South America: the military has taken power in the state and rules with an iron hand. Anyone who expresses criticism of the system is imprisoned. In a rebellious small town, however, the citizens show solidarity with the numerous po ...

Hauptlehrer Hofer (1975)

1919. Released from the teacher training college, Joachim Hofer takes up his first job as an assistant teacher in an Alsatian village. But only a few students come to class in the pigsty converted to school. ...

La Victoria (1973)

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary. ...

Shirley Chisholm for President (1972)

About the election campaign of the first female member of the US Congress. ...

Jakob von Gunten (1971)

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school. ...

Die Sonne angreifen (1971)

Based on motifs from the novel "Pornografia" by Witold Gombrowicz. The action takes place during the hot summer of 1970 in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago. An aging crime boss tries to compensate for his guilt by making a young couple guilty. ...

Malatesta (1970)

Enrico Malatesta (Eddie Constantine) leads a group of Latvian dissidents in the siege of Sidney Street. Chief of police Winston Churchill organizes against the anarchist who threaten to disturb the peace to make their demands known to the British aristocra ...

Horror (1969)

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him. ...

Noon in Tunisia (1969)

The two-part film "Noon in Tunisia" by Peter Lilienthal is a meeting of jazz and Arabic music at various public or open-air venues in Tunisia. Under the direction of George Gruntz, European and US jazz musicians play his suite-like composition "Maghreb Can ...

Tramp or the Only and Incomparable Lenny Jacobsen (1968)

The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best incidentally, the sensitivities of the victims and the perpetrators, to seemingly trivial expressions, gesture ...

Verbrechen mit Vorbedacht (1967)

The examining magistrate Hopek goes to a lonely manor house to settle a property matter with the lord of the manor. When he arrives, he learns that the lord of the manor has died of a heart attack during the night. Although everything suggests that the lor ...

Claire (1967)

The handicapped John Tuthill Crane is seized by his mother with "cannibal love". The heavily rich woman knows how to arrange his life in such a way that he is and remains dependent on her in every way. In his 37th year, John meets a girl on a vacation trip ...

Der Beginn (1966)

Abschied (1966)

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends. ...

Robert (1966)

Miss Giehse, an elderly teacher in a boarding school, tries with a lot of good will for her student Robert. The boy seems strangely withdrawn and depressed to her. Robert, whose behavior can be traced back to his parental home, which lacks orderly family r ...

Seraphine or the Wonderful Story of Aunt Flora (1965)

Following the life of the eccentric Aunt Flora, a woman of great imagination and curiosity. When her niece, Seraphine, visits her in a small town, she uncovers a world of peculiar happenings, strange traditions, and unexpected adventures. As Aunt Flora's c ...

Das Martyrium des Peter OHey (1964)

Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly existence of Peter O'Hey and his family is shaken one day by the announcement that a tiger has taken up residence in his bathroom. The state, represented by a ci ...

Jede Stunde verletzt und die letzte tötet (1963)

Bit by Bit (1962)

A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money. ...

Biographie eines Schokoladentages (1961)

Die Nachbarskinder (1960)

A left-behind woman, through a surprising act, comes to receive two marriage proposals in one day, both of which she accepts, leading to grief and trouble for her and others involved. ...

Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben (2008)

One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through his life. The film begins in the US and Hollywood - where Ballhaus established his international fame. ...

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders. ...

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 ...

Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstan ...

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. ...

Julius geht nach Amerika (1984)

Milo-Milo (1979)

Set in the greek island Milos, this action comedy follows a group of people searching for the actual Venus de Milo ...

The American Friend (1977)

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal il ...

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972)

A private detective infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians. ...

The Foundling (1967)

The story centers on the Roman merchant Piacchi, who raises the foundling Nicolo after the death of his son and bequeaths all his possessions to the young man. However, the adopted son turns against Piacchi and his wife. ...