Alfred Edel Movies

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion,...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Fashion designer Rüdiger falls in love with Italian countess Vera, who was injured by him in a car accident. Just before their wedding they find...

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a...

A traumatized young man, abused by his father, imagines himself as Adolf Hitler when dreaming of revenge. Schlingensief released this film, which...

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.

The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.