Peter Schamoni

Botero Born in Medellin (2008)

To mark the artist Fernando Botero's 75th birthday, Peter Schamoni made a documentary film about his moving life. Fernando Botero is immediately recognizable by his colourful and exuberant works. Schamoni convinces us that, behind the cliché of the naïve ...

Daniel, the Wizard (2004)

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will our w ...

Majestät brauchen Sonne (1999)

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. ...

Niki de Saint Phalle – Who Is the Monster, You or Me? (1995)

In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the coo ...

Max Ernst: My Vagabonds - My Restlessness (1991)

This documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of Ernst's fascinating career via a format that mirrors the restless reality of his life. An inveterate traveler an ...

Schloß Königswald (1988)

In Königswald Castle, eight noble old ladies and their maid are waiting for the end of World War II. Princess Ursela has made arrangements with her grandmother, the Countesses Hohenlohe, Dohna, Posadowsky, and Woronzoff, as well as Baroness Schweinitz and ...

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich (1986)

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus. ...

Spring Symphony (1983)

"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master ...

Jetzt und alles (1981)

A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction. ...

Flitterwochen (1980)

Customs officers Katti and Wolfgang are so deeply in love with each other that they are barely aware of their surroundings. But after the wedding reception, there's nothing but trouble. ...

Dorothea Tanning - Insomnia (1978)

A brief documentary about Dorothea Tanning with gothic flourishes. ...

Montana Trap (1976)

Potato Fritz and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a g ...

Daddy (1973)

Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint Phalle's films, the flick combines autobiography with imagination, mixing erotic scenes of inces ...

Meetings in the Forest (1972)

The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense forest governed by the monstrous Akos, not far from a mysterious castle inhabited by the noble Adrien, who will become the willing sacrificial victim of an in ...

Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (1971)

In 1972, the camera eye observes Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the ambiance he has created for himself and presents a wide selection of his beautifully coloured pictures, which are owned by collectors all over the world, while the artist himself speaks ab ...

Eins (1971)

A chubby-born young capitalist goes to the Riviera with three bums and casual laborers to successfully use his grandfather's surefire system in French casinos. ...

How Many Colours Has a Hand? (1971)

A film about and with Max Ernst. ...

Schmetterlinge weinen nicht (1970)

Cilly is too young for compromises. The man she loves is much older than her. Although he too is overwhelmed by his passion, he hesitates to burn all his bridges. When he is finally ready to end his marriage for this relationship, the conflicts between the ...

Your Caresses (1969)

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other. ...

Quartet in Bed (1968)

West Berlin, summer 1968: the attitude to life at the time through the eyes of (at least) three different quartets: the anarchic bards of "Insterburg & Co." wander through the backyards of Kreuzberg, passing the time with silly poems, homemade instruments ...

Go for It, Baby (1968)

Martin is 25 years old and very reserved about work. Together with his buddy Henry, he lives in their Schwabing apartment in the day. But everything changes when he falls in love with the attractive Barbara and observed a slump: For when he gives up the po ...

Alle Jahre wieder (1967)

A man returns every year to visit his estranged family and friends in this drama dripping with biting social commentary. His 40-year-old buddies are part of the nouveau riche who consider themselves elite and are content to sandbag it at work. Teutonic sen ...

Die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie (1967)

Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel. ...

No Shooting Time for Foxes (1966)

Two old school friends, both in their late twenties. One lives on his parent's rural estate and does nothing; the other half-heartedly pursues work as a journalist in Düsseldorf. ...

Dresden 1964 - Im Zwinger (1965)

Jugendweihe 1964/65 (1965)

So zwitschern die Jungen (1964)

Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious (1964)

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature of materials and the emotional significance of shapes to combine with his collages and netherworld canvas ...

Poor People (1963)

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a "collective s ...

Die Teutonen kommen (1962)

A satirical examination of the ways the influx of German tourists to Spain affects the local population. ...

Bodega Bohemia (1962)

Die Gartenzwerge (1962)

Short by Wolfgang Urchs. ...

Brutality in Stone (1961)

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical a ...

Osterspaziergang (1959)

A film by Enno Patalas and Peter Schamoni ...

Moscow Is Calling! (1959)

A film made secretly in Moscow by Peter Schamoni during the World Festival of Youth and Students in the summer of 1957. His cameraman was Jost Vacano. During their trip, they made authentic film and audio recordings of a kind that had never been seen befor ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Daniel, the Wizard (2004)

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will our w ...

Majestät brauchen Sonne (1999)

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. ...

Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht (1982)

Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher. ...

Montana Trap (1976)

Potato Fritz and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a g ...

We Two (1970)

After ten years, Hella Mayer and her boyhood friend Andreas meet again in Berlin on the street. Both know each other from common dance lessons times. ...

Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the fi ...

Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema. ...

Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966. ...

The Letter (1966)

T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he ...

...Geist und ein wenig Glück (1965)

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television. ...

The Pot (1964)

Allegory of a man who leads the people to destruction and then is reborn to recommence the cycle. ...

Poor People (1963)

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and instant censorship. He fled Croatia and lived in Germany; he died there in 2004. Poor People, a "collective s ...

Alarm at Station III (1939)

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price. ...