Kurt Tetzlaff

Some villages are torn down because of open cast mining south of Leipzig. The landscape changes and so do the lives of the people. The four years...

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is...

In view of the rapidly advancing development of technology, the film draws attention to the fact that people will not be able to manage without...

Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill,...

Once again Kurt Tetzlaff portrays Alexander, who in 1990 works as a nurse and is active in the “Action Reconciliation”. The sense of...

In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of...

Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill,...

Once again Kurt Tetzlaff portrays Alexander, who in 1990 works as a nurse and is active in the “Action Reconciliation”. The sense of...

In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of...

Documentary about young workers in East Germany.

Documentary about young workers in East Germany.

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the...

The Nörgel clan divides the labor and produce more hats than they need for themselves. As consequence, they look into an exchange of products at...

The history of money goes back to when people decided to settle down. They look for a physical equivalent to exchange goods… Nörgel and...

Nörgel is on his way home from the Leipzig market. He is exhausted from the trade business using animals as an exchange. There should be an...

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

The short documentary was shot at Ostkreuz station in Berlin-Friedrichshain and captures a snapshot of proletarian Berlin in 1957: it is early...

The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the...

Some villages are torn down because of open cast mining south of Leipzig. The landscape changes and so do the lives of the people. The four years...

Documentary film about the inhabitants of the village of Gager on the island of Rügen. The net and trap fishermen are a close-knit community and...

Some villages are torn down because of open cast mining south of Leipzig. The landscape changes and so do the lives of the people. The four years...

Documentary film about the inhabitants of the village of Gager on the island of Rügen. The net and trap fishermen are a close-knit community and...

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...

Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic...

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Interviews with children in Palestinian refugee camps.