Thomas Plenert Filmes

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

The film draws attention to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, especially among adolescents and young adults, and identifies partner...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place – a risk and a caesura for Dammbeck. Bypassing every state institution, six...

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own...

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany.

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back)...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether...

Documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp visits a brick factory in Zehdenick, East Germany.

Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz.

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly...

Czernowitz, an out-of-the-way city in the middle of Europe. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the capital of the crown province of...

Young people living in a children’s home in Mecklenburg talk about their unstable home situations and domestic violence. Many of them have...

Documentary film by Helke Misselwitz.

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the...