Vlado Kristl Movies

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

Satirical cartoon featuring a jewel robbery.

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in which...

T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire...

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and...

Kristl plays a prisoner who can smile only when he sees The General.

"Don Kihot" is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world.

Vlado Kristl rejected the word anarchy. Nor did he like the word utopia, nor the term experimental film. As a matter of fact, he didn't like any...

Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous "Shagreen...

Postmodernism also has to be seen as a system, one that is acknowledged, one with which one can create houses, locomotives, films, everything... That...

An idyll, "for GAL": a pond, a desk, a farm, a kitchen—and storks, lots of them. Colored, which brings to mind "coloratura." An idyll? Isn't...

Anything that complies with standards is a wasted effort to Vlado Kristl: 'I believe in only doing those things that decompose and tear conventional...

Observations of a man and a dog in a Hamburg street. Mass society did not arise because there are many people today, but because the media turned...

Short film about car racing.

In The Dam, although it is an experimental film, Kristl eschews the necessary earnestness in addressing his subject. The manufactured, unambiguously...

The friends of humanity: the painter, the musician, the poet and the prima ballerina - and all others are the enemies of humanity. -Vlado Kristl

Zagreb-born artist Vlado Kristl (1923-2004) was the most radical of the German auteur filmmakers. This is an anakofilm.

A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as Kristl...