Wdr Movies

Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966),during which Robert appeared in 20 features a...

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mi...

Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967.

They've known each other for over 20 years and have been making music together for around 15. Nils Wülker and Arne Jansen are constantly reinventing t...

In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process, he...

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuse...

A disaster-movie made in Germany.

For many decades, it was Germany’s largest event venue and North Rhine-Westphalia’s “XXL living room”: the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. Opened in 1952—...

Documentary film about the camps in the south of France, in which Spanish civil war refugees and the volunteers of the "international brigades", non-s...

Filmed by WDR, featuring excerpts of a concert, some backstage shots, autograph signing, various bits of banter, a train trip to Devon, and a visit to...

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as...

The third part of Thomas Heise's time-lapse observation, in which he accompanies the people of Saxony-Anhalt. At the centre of the film is Jeanette, w...

A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village.

Children act as adults and adults behave like children. A neglected French castle, its surroundings and 18th century music are the stage for a costume...

Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year.

The director accompanies the German women's national soccer team.

A gang of middle class teen kids stumbles upon a crime in their neighborhood. Remarkably one of the gang members is in a wheelchair, he is somewhat th...

The ’60s—a decade that shaped our country like almost no other. The architecture of that era continues to define the character of our cities and towns...