Ulrich Gregor

Le 26 février 1920, le film mondialement connu de Robert Wiene, « Le Cabinet du docteur Caligari », est projeté en première au Marmorhaus de Berlin. Aujourd'hui encore, il est considéré comme un manifeste de l'expressionnisme allemand, une légende du cinéma et une œuvre clé pour comprendre la nature de la République de Weimar et l'agitation politique constante dans laquelle vivait une société divisée après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.

A cineastic journey into the world of Naum Kleiman, one of the most important intellectuals in Russia today. Naum Kleiman, an internationally acclaimed Eisenstein specialist, is the director of the „Musey Kino“, Moscow’s museum of cinema. Since 1989, the „Musey Kino“, has shown previously banned classics of world cinema and Soviet films. Many saw the „Musey Kino“, as Moscow ́s most important intellectual forum. In 2005, the Moscow municipality sold the „Musey Kino’s“ building and it became homeless. In October 2014, the Russian Minister of Culture fired Naum Kleiman as director. In protest, his entire team handed in their resignations. Scenes from iconic movies and interviews with Muscovites of different ages and social backgrounds form a documentary film collage which mirrors Russian reality today.

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany.

Ulrich Gregor est filmé dans son bureau du Festival de cinéma de Berlin entouré de l’affiche du festival (La Grande famille de Magritte).

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

On May 17, 1946, Deutsche-Film AG (DEFA) was founded in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Until 1990, DEFA produced nearly 700 feature films, 750 animation films, 2250 short and documentary films and synchronized about 8,000 films from abroad.

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.