Jürgen Böttcher Movies

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father...

Originally banned in 1966, East German director Jürgen Böttcher's tale of love and disillusionment among two newlyweds attempting to...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

Grabe's film about his friend, fellow filmmaker, and painter Jürgen Böttcher aka Strawalde.

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with...

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate...

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

At the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost an der Oder, a new blast furnace is being moved to replace a burnt-out one. 2000 tons have to be moved 18 meters:...

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

This black and white documentary film reports from the Berlin Zoo, located in the Friedrichsfelde district of the Lichtenberg district, was opened in...

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the...

Martha Bieder is the last rubble-woman in Berlin Rummelsburg. Every day, rain or shine, she stands at the conveyor belt - as she has for decades -...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

A black-and-white documentary film about the large housing estate "Lütten Klein" in the northwest of Rostock in June 1968. On the basis of the...

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...