Ula Stöckl

Die Widerständigen "also machen wir das weiter" (2015)

'The films I make have to get made, because when these people are dead they're dead and all we'll have left are Gestapo records, the records of the perpetrators. We can't accept that.' This quote graces the beginning of Katrin Seybold's last film which was ...

The Old Song (1992)

Is life like the fairy tale of Lucky Hans, who lost his lump of gold when he swapped the life he had, for what he thought was a better one? ...

Don't Talk About Fate (1991)

A short film by Ula Stöckl, with Grischa Huber and texts from "Hyperion" by Hölderlin: "I would like to show you a free land, a land full of beauty and full of soul and say: save yourself there! ...

The Story Teller (1989)

In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune wit ...

Hilft uns denn niemand? (1986)

Sleep of Reason (1984)

Dea, gynecologist and scientist, and her colleagues have for the last few months been preparing a campaign against the local pharmaceutical industry. A campaign, which is linked to Dea's published findings concerning harmful side effects of the pill. For y ...

Die Erbtöchter (1983)

The film comprises a total of six episodes: in each, the authors seek to highlight the personal problems and feelings of three French and three German female filmmakers. ...

Erika's Passions (1976)

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young, attractive and imaginative. They overlooked what would, right from the outset, separate them: their very diffe ...

Popp and Mingel (1975)

8 year-old Patrick is left far too much on his own, due to the fact that his parents both work. The parents make it clear that they love their son, but only when they are hurrying out of the house, or have a guilty conscience. Patrick's need for tenderness ...

Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1974)

The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularl ...

Rabbit and Porcupine (1974)

What does Brigitte want? She wants to work and live with those she loves. And to work at something which doesn't separate her from life. How can she manage this? ...

A Very Perfect Couple (1974)

Angela and Robert have been married for ten years and make a perfect couple. They are madly in love with each other, give each other plenty of space and support each other in everyday life. This idyll is put to the test when Robert's girlfriend Claudia mov ...

The Little Lion And The Big Ones (1973)

Manfred takes his nephew, Martin, on a business trip to Rome. They stay with Manfred's brother Georg, who lives in Rome. On the way there Manfred and Martin meet Lilo, a girl who is also on her way to Rome. ...

Hirnhexen (1972)

The 24-year-old Ekkehard is shocked by the suicide of Hans Georg, a young man under his care, and moves into his room because he initially believes that the causes of the suicide can be found in this environment. In his search for the reasons, his percepti ...

The Golden Thing (1972)

Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and cunning to overcome various obstacles until they reach the destination of their fantastic journey. The exper ...

Sunday Painting (1971)

Eva is a single freelance painter. She is in love with a married man. She pretends that she never waits for him, and if he suddenly turns up she acts as if she is surprised. In reality the unresolved relationship is making her so depressed that her work is ...

The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)

In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés, acquaintances, and parties. In a series of conversations between them and other women, they talk about the chances for female ...

Lust for Love (1967)

Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her. ...

Saturday at 5 PM (1966)

What do high school girls do on a Saturday at 5 pm? This film outlines how 18 year-olds imagine future happiness. ...

Do You Have a Degree? (1965)

The observations of teachers and students at the Stuttgart evening school poses the question of whether everyone has the same education opportunities. Out of the 200 night-school students who start out, only 17 reach their aim: Graduation from school, whic ...

Miniaturen Teil 2 (1965)

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm ...

Antigone (1964)

The classical Epic is reduced to the bare bones of the action. Despite the seven minutes of turbulent action, it is actually a slow film: in the war against Kreon, one of Antigone's brothers fights for the king, one against him. Both die. One of them is bu ...

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break an ...

Freak Orlando (1981)

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...

Day of the Idiots (1981)

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. ...

Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train. ...

Das schwache Geschlecht muss stärker werden (1969)

The weaker sex must become stronger - but how can this be achieved? The central keyword of the six filmmakers Claudia von Alemann, Susanne Beyeler, Erika Runge, Helke Sander, Ula Stöckl and Hanna Laura Klar is: emancipation. Together, they will discuss th ...