Thomas Giefer

Watching You: The World of Palantir and Alex Karp (2024)

With his company Palantir, businessman Alex Karp created a powerful piece of data analysis software. It provides intelligence services, the military, and police investigative authorities with information that can be used to solve crimes or kill people. But ...

Berlin - Paris: Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld (2011)

With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got known worldwide. The film highlights the significance of this act and its background. Beate Klarsfeld, born in Berlin in 1939 as Beate Künzel, is primarily ...

Mit dem Mut der Verzweifelten (2005)

Andreas Baader - Das Leben eines Staatsfeindes (2002)

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"? ...

Assassination: Colonial Style – Patrice Lumumba, an African Tragedy (2001)

Patrice Lumumba – the first Prime Minister of the newly independent African state, The Congo. To fellow Africans he was a hero – the man who had won his country's independence from the Belgians. But for the secret services of the western powers he was ...

Off Season (1997)

Summer 1994, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two civil wars in only three years has torn the city apart and destroyed it. The town is split into a Croatian majority in the west and a Muslim majority locked in the east. An invisible wall divides the two are ...

Bandstrasse - Diese spontane Arbeitsniederlegung war nicht geplant (1982)

Documentary about one of the most significant migrant battles in the Federal Republic of Germany, a wildcat strike mainly sustained by migrant workers (euphemistically called "guest workers") at the Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl in August 1973. ...

Terror auch im Westen (1968)

Giefer documents the International Vietnam Congress, which took place on February 17 and 18, 1968 in the Audimax of the Technical University of Berlin (TU). With his photographs of the counter-demonstration, which was organized on 21 February 1968 under th ...

Machen wir den Tegeler Weg zur Kochstrasse (1968)

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight. ...

Berlin - 2. Juni 67 (1967)

The documentary, produced by the General Student Committee of Freie Universität Berlin, documents the brutal police crackdowns on anti-Shah demonstrators, preserves evidence, interviews eyewitnesses, and confronts thugs with film and photographic evidence ...

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 ...

Color Test: The Red Flag (1968)

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor's seat. A cinematic experiment based on Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol and New American Cinema. A study in men, movements and a symb ...