Dietrich Schubert Movies

A man returns to Cologne and remembers his time as an “Edelweiss Pirate” in the resistance against the Nazi regime in scenes of...

Documentary by Helma Sanders-Brahms.

A long-term observation from 1977-1980, focusing on the apprentice Gerd and his family. Gerd wants to become an electrician, but after several...

A moving documentary about a lack of home and the life on the run during the escape from Nazi Germany.

A man eats a chicken and then meets his doppelganger in the woods who he is then chained to.

Political intervention by Günter Wallraff.

A movie about the railroad line built between 1908 and 1912 from Jünkerath to Losheim

Documentary about the life in the then newly completed city Halle Neustadt in the former DDR in East Germany.

The Cologne Edelweiss Pirates were one of those proletarian resistance groups against the Nazi regime that are easily forgotten to this day. They...

In the summer of 2001, 75-year-old Mathi Schenk made his last trip to Poland, following in the footsteps of his own past. He lives in the eastern...

A struggeling TV documentarian's personal and professional life crumbles as he moves between the city and the countryside.

This film painstakingly documents the ways in which women are devalued as workers in a patriarchal society.

Dietrich Schubert's first published short film is a story of longing in front of an almighty industrial backdrop.

West German short film inspired by an East German soldier song directed by Dietrich Schubert.

Documentary about changes in country life over time.

Winter, spring, summer and autumn. Observations in a landscape.

The film focuses on Cologne citizens of different social backgrounds and political views, who took different paths to their common anti-fascist...

Documentary directed by Dietrich Schubert.

Short film based on a story by Fakir Baykurt.

Film about the possible consequences of an atomic war.