Eckhart Schmidt Movies

Three episodes depict events that actually took place in the years before the film was made. Three true‐life dramas explore...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father escapes reality into an affair with his secretary while her...

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Once before, the ravishing lake mermaid Undine has warned her lover Raoul. Their humid-romantic fairy-tale love is in danger because Raoul's brother...

A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him,...

Female fans are flocking to pop star Nik's feet. But when he announces that he is madly in love with Sarah and wants to marry her, there is an outcry...

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

Documentary about Federico Fellini

A sixteen-year-old girl is selected by a matchmaking computer to become the wife of a 35-year-old star photographer.

Documentary about the Wu-Tang Clan.

About Life and Work.

Documentary about the Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

A man stalks the Hollywood Boulevard in search of prey.

The beautiful Raphaela is the dream girl of Alpha City, a decadent metropolis. The rather naive Frank falls in love with this very woman, who shows...

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...