Sebastian Richter

Alles andere zeigt die Zeit (2016)

18 years after the last film, Andreas Voigt returns to the protagonists of his Leipzig films. ...

Rapunzel (2009)

A wicked witch locked Rapunzel in a tall tower without doors. Whenever she wanted to enter, the witch would call, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair", and Rapunzel would lower her extremely long hair for the witch to climb. Years pass until one day a ...

Material (2009)

"Pictures from the late eighties in the GDR on up to the immediate present in the year 2008 in Germany. What has been left over besieges my mind. All these pictures keep reassembling themselves to make up something which they were originally not made for. ...

Frau Holle (2008)

A widow has two daughters. Louise, lazy she spoils and Marie who dutifully and eagerly helps her mother around the house. One day Marie falls into the well and wakes up on a flowery meadow in a land of dreams, where even bread and apple tree can talk. ...

Mamas Flitterwochen (2008)

After a lot of trial and error, Hilde Reimer has finally decided to marry her late love Theo. Immediately after the wedding, Theo moves in with her in the Reimersche family villa - nothing seems to stand in the way of their mutual happiness. Or is it? Whil ...

Das Morphus-Geheimnis (2008)

Never until the end of their days - so swears a mysterious group - will they reveal the secret location of Beethoven's will. For this is where his magical Morphus composition is hidden, which puts anyone who hears it into a deep sleep. Generations later, t ...

Die Versuchung (2004)

Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fa ...

Schöne Lügen (2003)

Interior designer Kim Joosten is like many modern women: self-confident, successful and always concerned about her appearance. When she saves a child's life at a barbecue, she suffers severe burns and is disfigured by a large facial scar. However, represen ...

Vittorio - Momente des Glücks (2002)

Alessandro Rossi, an Italia air force officer in diplomatic service, is happy with his wife, pilot Bea Rossi, who had a miscarriage and gets obsessed with her child wish when pregnant again of a boy to be christened Vittorio 'winner'. Bea resigns her job a ...

Access Denied (2000)

With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in a hermetically sealed high-tech world. ...

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000)

The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life. What is a moral person to do in a time of savage immorality? That question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeff ...

Verführt - Fatal Online Affair (1999)

Changing jobs and changing boyfriends - until now, the beautiful Sonia has cheated her way through life. She found the support she needed with her sister Karin. But then Karin doesn't return from a supposed business trip. Sonia sets off with her dog Bigfoo ...

Große weite Welt (1997)

Continuation of Andreas Voigt's Leipzig films. ...

Viel Spaß mit meiner Frau (1997)

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1994)

Portrait of a group of skinheads, some politically left wing, others extremely right wing. One feels the cold atmosphere of the society. The film was controversial. It was praised by some for its inside into the skinhead scene, but attacked by others for g ...

Stau – Jetzt geht’s los (1992)

A group of young people in Halle-Neustadt moving aimlessly between the concrete blocks once built as a socialist model housing estate. Familiar certainties dissolved along with the GDR. Even though there were hardly any foreigners in Saxony-Anhalt, a dull ...

Verlorene Landschaft (1992)

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The re ...

Iron Age (1991)

Ten years after breaking off the film "Anka and ..." nearly all the protagonists of that time have disappeared. Mario and Tilo hung themselves in the final phase of the GDR, Frank is surviving in West Berlin addicted to drugs, and Karsten is doing pretty w ...

Der gordische Knoten (1991)

Eastern Landscape (1991)

Articles of former East Germany from household items to flags are thrown away at a garbage dump outside of East Berlin, serving as a reminder of a state that no longer exists. In this gesture of breaking ties with the past, the film captures the dumping gr ...

Last Year Titanic (1991)

Director Andreas Voigt interviewed people of different ages and social backgrounds about their experiences after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He paints an important picture of this historic period in German history, filled with radical social and economic ...

Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch (1990)

Documentary film. ...

Sweeping (1990)

Leipzig is in a period of change. The uproar of Autumn '89 is followed by a hectic electoral campaign in Spring '90. Nightly conversations with street sweepers are dominated by hopelessness and broken self-confidence, but one can also recognise a keen sens ...

Snack Bar Special (1990)

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering for travellers of every kind while in the background the authorities maintain a flow of triumphal statemen ...

Schpergsche Lichtmess - ein Männerfest (1990)

The Candlemas Festival in Spergau in the district of Halle, one of the few examples of a traditional custom that is still largely true to the original. Archival footage from 1925 allows a comparison with current footage of the festivities. In interviews, p ...

Farewell, Joseph (1989)

A young man who disappears from home for a while returns as his own (deceased) brother and encounters a strange world that should be familiar to him. ...

Leipzig in Autumn (1989)

Voigt, Kroske and Richter were among the first filmmakers who documented the events of the historic 9th of October 1989. Their "material" reflects them from different angles: protesters, workers, opposition members, policemen, street sweepers and functiona ...

whisper & SHOUT (1988)

Documents important parts of the East German rock music scene of the late 1980s, from well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B. This road movie features young people using music to express their take on life, opposition t ...

Alfred (1986)

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in 1985. ...

Edith bei Clärchen (1985)

A short documentary by Andreas Kleinert about a cashier in Clärchens Ballhaus, one of the last surviving ballrooms from the 1920s in Berlin. ...