Helke Sander Movies

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she...

A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing.

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...

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

Filmmaker and author Helke Sander is an icon not only of the women's movement, but also of new German cinema. Historical upheavals sometimes only...

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the second part of the documentary...

The film documents the work of an anti-authoritarian and self-organized school store in Witzlebenstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which emerged...

A documentary essay on the 1960s women's liberation movement in Germany and it's developments and conflicts through the following decades.

Seven young women from Berlin discuss their experiences with the pill in a studio setting and react to the ideas that young men of the same age have...

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training...

A sexual assault and its consequences. The 2nd of three self-contained shorts from Helke Sander's series of shorts entitled From the Reports of...

When an ordinary-looking man tries to buy a mirror in an upscale shop, class conflicts arise. The third part of the short film series.

Analysis of an incident in Nazi Germany involving a man and a jewish woman.

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On...

Documentary about the situation of film students after graduation.

Jenny is on the road in her film producer's Rolls-Royce, which she has to drive to a film shoot and a wedding. When she gets lost at night, she finds...

At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a...