Volker Koepp Movies

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to...

Documentary about a farmer's wife in former East Prussia.

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

Shortly behind the once East Prussian, now Russian town of Tilsit, the Memel splits into a delta. The widest arms of this delta, the Ruß and...

In his film "Berlin-Stettin", well-known documentary film director Volker Koepp embarks on a journey to the places of his own past: Born in 1944 in...

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Seventh and last Wittstock film.

In his documentary film, Volker Koepp portrays the picturesque Polish region of Pomerania. But although the region appears to be idyllic, its...

"Frankfurter Tor" is the name of a huge parking lot for trucks on the A12 Berlin-Frankfurt freeway. For many years, this asphalted spot in the Mark...

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

The "Curonian Spit" is a 98 kilometre long sand dune peninsula that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The width of the spit between...

A short documentary about dealing with people in rent arrears.

Spring 1988: a cinematic chronicle of the small town of Zehdenick an der Havel in the Mark Brandenburg. Brickworks have determined the rhythm of life...

The end moraines of the Uckermark have kept Volker Koepp busy for decades. Following the socio-historical "Uckermark", he devotes himself in...

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

Following Landstück (2016), Volker Koepp's documentary Seestück is about the magical, natural setting of the Baltic Sea, its coasts and its...

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside...

Volker Koepp revisits locations and people from his earlier documentaries in the wide Eastern European region of Sarmatia.