Volker Koepp

Leaving and Staying (2023)

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson's sophisticated literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from. ...

Seestück (2018)

Following Landstück (2016), Volker Koepp's documentary Seestück is about the magical, natural setting of the Baltic Sea, its coasts and its people – including fishermen, seamen, scientists and young people on both the Baltic and Scandinavian shores. Co ...

Wiederkehr (2017)

Documentary by Volker Koepp. ...

Landstück (2016)

The end moraines of the Uckermark have kept Volker Koepp busy for decades. Following the socio-historical "Uckermark", he devotes himself in "Landstück" even more intensively to conveying the sensory experience of this sparsely populated, ecologically fas ...

In Sarmatien (2014)

Volker Koepp revisits locations and people from his earlier documentaries in the wide Eastern European region of Sarmatia. ...

Livland (2012)

Documentary by Volker Koepp. ...

20 × Brandenburg (2010)

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 un ...

Berlin - Stettin (2009)

In his film "Berlin-Stettin", well-known documentary film director Volker Koepp embarks on a journey to the places of his own past: Born in 1944 in Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) and grown up in Berlin-Karlshorst, Koepp has again and again met p ...

24 Hours Berlin (2009)

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities. ...

Memelland (2008)

Documentary about the region next to the river Memel. ...

Elder Blossom (2007)

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside and with one another. After World War II and the expulsion of Germans by Stalin, the Prussian province turned ...

Söhne (2007)

In early 1945, the mother Elisabeth Paetzold flees from the Red Army from West Prussia towards the west with the two oldest of her four sons. Taking all the children at the same time seems too dangerous to her, so she leaves her two youngest in the hope of ...

Schattenland - Reise nach Masuren (2005)

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent boom in tourism, the sparsely populated region still remains one of the poorest regions in Europe. The impr ...

Pommerland (2005)

In his documentary film, Volker Koepp portrays the picturesque Polish region of Pomerania. But although the region appears to be idyllic, its inhabitants are struggling with big problems. The villages and cities of Pomerania that traditionally live from ag ...

This Year in Czernowitz (2004)

Chernivtsi, an out-of-the-way city in the middle of Europe. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the capital of the crown province of Bukowina. People of many different nationalities, languages, and cultures lived here together: Ukrainians, ...

Uckermark (2002)

Volker Koepp returns to the Brandenburg Marches, where many of his films were made. Uckermark describes the coexistence of the various eras using the stories and lives of the local people. They are farmers and returning noblemen, men and women hoping that ...

Kurische Nehrung (2001)

The "Curonian Spit" is a 98 kilometre long sand dune peninsula that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The width of the spit between the lagoon′s beach and the beach of the Baltic Sea often amounts to no more than several hundred metres. ...

Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckerman (1999)

In the west of Ukraine, not far from the border to Romania, there is a faraway European city: Chernivtsi. It was once the centre of Jewish culture in the Bukowina, a border area characterized over centuries by a multi-cultural mixture of peoples. Here, Ukr ...

Die Gilge (1998)

Shortly behind the once East Prussian, now Russian town of Tilsit, the Memel splits into a delta. The widest arms of this delta, the Ruß and Gilge, finally flow into the Curonian Lagoon. The river landscape is characterized by high soil moisture. Cultiva ...

Das 7. Jahr – Ansichten zur Lage der Nation (1997)

Wittstock, Wittstock (1997)

Seventh and last Wittstock film. ...

Fremde Ufer (1996)

Documentary about a farmer's wife in former East Prussia. ...

Cold Homeland (1995)

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state. ...

Die Wismut (1993)

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany. ...

The Wheel (1993)

Neues in Wittstock (1992)

Sixth Wittstock film. This Wittstock film, co-produced by the French broadcaster La Sept, begins in 1990. Koepp shows the consequences of reunification and the economic and social upheavals in East Germany. The state-owned knitwear factory is privatized. E ...

Sammelsurium - Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm (1992)

March Brandenburg, Inc. (1991)

In late 1990 times are changing in Zehdenick, Brandenburg: Russian troops are leaving, the German Reunification brings euphoria and new hope, but unemployment rises steadily. ...

Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand (1990)

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification. ...

Märkische Ziegel (1989)

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life in Zehdenick for exactly 100 years. Seasoned brickmakers and young skilled workers speak frankly and criti ...

Feuerland (1988)

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century. ...

An der Unstrut (1986)

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality. ...

Afghanistan 1362: Memories of a Journey (1985)

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited Kabul and neighboring provinces. Koepp met a cross-section of people, such as soldiers, intellectuals, kids, and n ...

Life in Wittstock (1984)

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town several times to examine life of the female workers in the textile industry. He interviewed them about their wo ...

Alle Tiere sind schön da (1983)

In Rheinsberg (1982)

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of this special place. ...

Leben und Weben (Wittstock IV) (1981)

The fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a first summary of the development of the company since its almost ten-year existence. Edith Rupp takes center stage. ...

Haus und Hof (1980)

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East Germany. ...

Tag für Tag (1979)

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany. ...

At the River (1979)

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history. ...

Wittstock III (1978)

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced fabrics for the military here during the Second World War. In 1945, only a handful of handlooms remained. The con ...

Hütes-Film (1978)

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia. ...

The Vast Field (1976)

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's "landscape" series. ...

Wieder in Wittstock (1976)

The film follows on from "Mädchen in Wittstock", in which the director already portrayed young female workers at the VEB OTB (Obertrikotagenbetrieb) "Ernst Lück" in Wittstock an der Dosse. "Wieder in Wittstock" deals with the work and life problems of th ...

Mädchen in Wittstock (1975)

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work in the textile industry, their spare-time occupations, about their ...

Even Today He’d Speak His Mind (1975)

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert. ...

Aus meiner Kindheit (1975)

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his buddy Karl. After school, he helps his father, whose business he is to inherit one day. Ernst has many ques ...

Slatan Dudow: A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (1975)

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963). ...

Gustav J. (1973)

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to Germany. ...

Grüße aus Sarmatien für den Dichter Johannes Bobrowski (1973)

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965). ...

Junge Leute (1971)

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life. ...

Schuldner (1971)

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears. ...

Sommergäste bei Majakowski (1967)

Biographical search for traces of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in Georgia. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. ...

Leaving and Staying (2023)

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson's sophisticated literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from. ...

Seestück (2018)

Following Landstück (2016), Volker Koepp's documentary Seestück is about the magical, natural setting of the Baltic Sea, its coasts and its people – including fishermen, seamen, scientists and young people on both the Baltic and Scandinavian shores. Co ...

Elder Blossom (2007)

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside and with one another. After World War II and the expulsion of Germans by Stalin, the Prussian province turned ...

The Last Documentary (2000)

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel. ...

Die Gilge (1998)

Shortly behind the once East Prussian, now Russian town of Tilsit, the Memel splits into a delta. The widest arms of this delta, the Ruß and Gilge, finally flow into the Curonian Lagoon. The river landscape is characterized by high soil moisture. Cultiva ...

Playboys (1998)

A group of men shoot their mouths off in a pub. Their animated talk is all action-packed yarns and, of course, about women. ...

Fremde Ufer (1996)

Documentary about a farmer's wife in former East Prussia. ...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Volker Koepp (1995)

Interview with Volker Koepp about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner ...

Up – Down (1994)

Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly endless pitfalls. ...

Sammelsurium - Ein ostelbischer Kulturfilm (1992)