Holger Meins Movies

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics.

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

West­ern for the SDS por­trays the de­vel­op­ment of the left as a learn­ing pro­cess among wo­m­en who...

I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin....

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

Instructions on how to make a Molotov Cocktail

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

A young man decides to leave the country after the 1965 West German parliamentary elections. He hitchhikes out of Hamburg, but makes it only as far...

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism...

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus...

Gerd Conradt films men carrying a red flag in a relay race through Berlin, to hoist it on the balcony of the current Mayor’s seat. A cinematic...

Twelve short scenes of the life of an elderly homeless person, Oskar Langenfeld, in Berlin.

Film announcing the November 4, 1968 demonstration and urging demonstrators to be prepared to fight.

An emotional dialogue between a man and a woman, around whom a camera circles in a 360-degree turn.

Film essay on Holger Meins, Gerd Conradt's former colleague who died on hunger strike in 1975.