Directed by Hermann Pölking-Eiken • Documentary • 2018 • 50 minutes
After the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the world holds its breath and waits to see if Hitler will risk European peace. He will, safeguarded by the Hitler-Stalin pact, and invades Poland. Inevitably, Great Britain and France declare war, and Hitler is perplexed, in spite of all warnings, but continues anyway. The West is passive, and soon Hitler reaches the summit of military power. Almost the entire continent of Europe is under Germany’s control. In the East, however, things look harsh: incredible distances, unlimited manpower and above all, the very, very cold winter in Russia.
Directed by Hermann Pölking-Eiken • Documentary • 2018 • 50 minutes
Hitler personally arranges for a euthanasia program, underestimating the resistance of the Church. While the killing of the mentally ill has to be slowed down, the extinction of Jews is expanded to an industrial scale. Russian p...
Directed by David Barison and Daniel Ross • Documentary • With Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg • 2004 • 189 minutes
In 1942, at the height of World War II, Martin Heidegger, the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, delivered a s...
Directed by Christian Petzold • Drama • With Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer • 2019 • 102 minutes
In Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski, Happy End), flees to Marseille assuming the identi...
