Films by Axel Brandt

Russia 2013, 84 min
by Irina Roerig

As a female Orpheus the singer Elena Frolova enters the depths of Russian history to resurrect her own Eurydice, the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. From Tsvetaeva's forgotten poems she creates songs through which we become contemporaries of an adventurous life spanning times of revolution and emigration, culminating in her return to the Soviet Union and ultimate downfall. The harshest critic of this relationship is Elena Frolova's own mother Maja Stenanovna, who - as a child of socialism - regards such

Germany 2009
by Axel Brandt

Germany 2008
by Axel Brandt

Germany 2007
by C. Cay Wesnigk

„Hätte er damals gewonnen, dann wäre er so bekannt geworden wie später der Michael Schumacher – das wäre so eine Art zweites Wunder von Bern gewesen!“ Die Rede ist von Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips. Am 10. September 1961 steht der Ferrari-Pilot in Monza vor dem größten Triumph seiner Laufbahn – dem Gewinn der Formel I-Weltmeisterschaft. Doch anstatt zu siegen, stirbt er bei einem verheerenden Unfall. Mit dem Tod des seinerzeit sehr populären Renngrafen stirbt auch das Geschlecht derer von Trips

Germany 2007
by Kathrin Pitterling

Germany 2003, 105 min
by Nina Irina Roerig

A bus ride from Berlin to Moscow takes 36 hours. During this journey there is plenty of time for the thoughts and hopes of the passengers. Some are emigrants visiting home, others return home and they are uprooted by the social upheavals. This fact makes them watchful observers of the present in the East as well as in the West. They will probably never meet again, but on this busride they are a community: Natasha, the Berlin-based actress, Yuri, who has a child in Berlin that he is not allowed t

Germany 2001
by Bertram Verhaag, Kai Krüger

On a farm in Canada's wheat belt, farmer Percy Schmeiser is sued by agrochemical and seed giant Monsanto for damages worth a quarter of a million dollars. Schmeiser is accused of patent violation - because wind and birds have carried Monsanto's genetically modified canola onto his fields. But Schmeiser isn’t cowed. He responds with a countersuit, citing libel and contamination of his property. His case catches the public’s attention and Schmeiser finds himself in demand around the world as a fi