Films by Brigitte Krause

Germany 2013, 78 min
by Brigitte Krause

The story of an extraordinary prisoner of war campwhere German soldiers passed on culture and crafts to their Japanese captors,which have since become part of Japan's own distinctive ways of life. Hans-Joachim Schmidt from Kutzhof, Germany, finds in the attic of his new house photos and letters of German prisoners-of-war (PoW)in Japan during World War I. He starts a historical and biographical researchproject. At the age of 24, Kazue Shinoda learns that she has a German grandfather, who was o

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Brigitte Krause

Tales of departures and partings intersect at Steubenhöft quay - the forgotten port of European emigration. The quay is almost not of this earth, a final terminus and a starting point for the transit voyages to the United States and Canada. The film-maker traverses this place of countless farewells in images full of longing. Situated on the German North Sea coast, it is the only still-operating, former emigration harbor in the world. Tales told by the people there, travelers after the turn of th