Peter Pewas Movies

Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end...

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.

This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the...

Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.

Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.

These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores,...

A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.

Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three...

Romance stories with large inserts of war documents.

An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.

Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.

A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.