Alfred Edel Filmes

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion,...

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also...

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed...

On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the...

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a...

A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

Fashion designer Rüdiger falls in love with Italian countess Vera, who was injured by him in a car accident. Just before their wedding they find...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a...

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

This black and white silent film with music by Helge Schneider, starring Udo Kier as a vampire and Alfred Edel as an Indian chief was commissioned by...

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...