Films by amelie latscha

Germany 2009
by Daniela Schmidt-Langels

Julia Franck is one of the key female writers in new German literature and winner of the German Book Prize for her novel “Die Mittagsfrau”. The film links her personal biography with key moments in her work and thereby also tells a piece of east-west German History. World Sales: Wavelength Pictures, UK

Germany 2008, 100 min
by Felix Moeller

Veit Harlan was Nazi Germany’s most successful film director. A hundred million spectators saw his films all over Europe, including the perfidious anti-Semitic Propaganda film “Jew Süss”. The documentary presents the first biography of Veit Harlan and shows how his family - including the youngest generation of Harlans - struggles until today with the dark myth of artistic immorality. with:Thomas Harlan, Maria Körber, Caspar Harlan, Kristian Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, Jessica Jacob

Germany 2005
by Felix Moeller

With numerous unknown film clips the documentary portrays Hildegard Knef’s way from the very young actress during the Third Reich, to her first film parts in the German film studio Ufa, her involvement in the last battle of Berlin in 1945, her survival in post-war Germany, her comet-like rise to the first German film star after WW II, and her time in Hollywood. with: Kurt Hirsch, David Cameron, Paul von Schell, Alexander von Demandowsky, Volker Schlöndorff a.o.

Germany 2003
by Felix Moeller

It is a journey through three generations and more than 70 years of filmmaking and history in Germany. Paul Verhoeven was a major stage director in the 1930s, but became famous primarily as a film director during the Third Reich and in post-war Germany. This portrait with film clips from various epochs of the German film is a combination of film history and family biography. With: Michael Verhoeven, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Stella Maria Adorf, Simon Verhoeven, Luca Verhoeven, Volker Schlöndo