Films by C. Cay Wesnigk

Germany 2020, 4 min
by C. Cay Wesnigk

Germany 2018, 92 min
by Stephan Talneau

Petra Nachtmanowa travels to the end of the world and at the same time into her heart. With her Saz on her back, the Berlin musician sets out in search of the origin of the mythical string instrument.She travels from Berlin to Istanbul, across Anatolia, over the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus to the dusty deserts of eastern Iran. She meets Bosnian instrument makers, music teachers who climb mountains in shirts and suits, and chain-smoking Persians who may have invented blues rock. Everyone as

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
by Susanne Benze, Oliver Axer

HITLER'S HIT PARADE is a composition of archival footage from movies, amateur-, animated-, and educational films, commercials and propaganda - accompanied by dance and popular music from the Third Reich.The film is structured along thematic chapters, each accompanied by a song and introduced by a headline in the style of the period. In the form of an artistic collage, the film uses a musical thread, to lead the audience through experiences and ideas of the Nazi era.In contrast to still images -

Germany 1999
by C. Cay Wesnigk

9 year old Antonia would like to wear "real" earrings, but her friend told her the holes would be shot into her ear. Antonia decides to inform herself more thouroughly before starting such an adventure...

Germany 1998
by C. Cay Wesnigk

Everything is ready at the Coffetable, just the cake is missing.Brina decides to help out. Silently she sneaks into the kitchen where hell breaks loose.

Germany 1996
by C. Cay Wesnigk

Playing with a ball alone is not as much fun as with others. Some have to learn it the hard way...

Germany 1996
by C. Cay Wesnigk, Adolf Bollmann

Germany 1991, 91 min
by Wolfgang Kissel, C. Cay Wesnigk

This eye-opening film tells the history of the German Democratic Republic through East Germany's official newsreels and state films. Compared to Leni Riefenstahl, the East German propaganda machine was comically stiff and inept. But filmmakers Kissel and Wesnigk have excavated the archives of the East German state film studio to discover priceless archival footage that compares to THE ATOMIC CAFE: Walter Ulbricht playing ping pong, the East German version of "Sesame Street," Erich and Margot Hon

Germany 1980, 65 min

1929, 2 min
by Friedrich Herwig