Michael Ballhaus Movies

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...

“Grotesque dancer” Valeska Gert speaks with inimitable repartee and typical Berlin brashness about her scandals and the people she met....

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's...

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of...

110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored...

The western film that was filmed in Bavaria is located in the Montana Mountains. At the end of the 19th century, an Indian Boy called Tschetan meets...

Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs...

A couple (Karin Thome and Eberhard Klasse), whose relationship can't hold up to the pressure of their financial and career problems, only have their...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family’s dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead...

Essentially an extensive travelogue through Greece and its islands, this 103-minute documentary was written, directed, and shot over a two-year...

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into...

Documentary film.