Movies: Helma Sanders Brahms Filmproduktion

  • 1980
    Germany Pale Mother

    Germany Pale Mother (1980)

    Germany Pale Mother

    6.91980HD

    Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives t...

    Germany Pale Mother
  • 1981
    No Mercy, No Future

    No Mercy, No Future (1981)

    No Mercy, No Future

    41981HD

    Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting...

    No Mercy, No Future
  • 2008
    Clara

    Clara (2008)

    Clara

    5.22008HD

    A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann....

    Clara
  • 1975
    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand

    41975HD

    West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society....

    Under the Pavement Lies the Strand
  • 1989
    Manöver

    Manöver (1989)

    Manöver

    01989HD

    Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ......

    Manöver
  • 1997
    My Heart Is Mine Alone

    My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

    My Heart Is Mine Alone

    4.41997HD

    Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler ...

    My Heart Is Mine Alone
  • 1994
    Jews in Berlin

    Jews in Berlin (1994)

    Jews in Berlin

    01994HD

    No folkore, no rituals, no klezmer, no political statements, no twee Berlin Jewish quarters. This film is an attempt to make an imageless film; a plea for a religion of imagelessness, of words, of thoughts....

    Jews in Berlin
  • 1985
    The Future of Emily

    The Future of Emily (1985)

    The Future of Emily

    5.71985HD

    Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle...

    The Future of Emily
  • 1987
    Hermann My Father

    Hermann My Father (1987)

    Hermann My Father

    01987HD

    "Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the impact of war on a German family. This made-for-tv documentary follows Sanders-Brahms and her father...

    Hermann My Father
  • 1971
    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged (1971)

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged

    01971HD

    Documentary about the everyday routine of the sales assistant Angelika Urban....

    Angelika Urban, Sales Assistant, Engaged