Films by Christian Weisenborn

Director, Producer

GOOD ENEMIES – MY FATHER , THE RED ORCHESTRA AN I

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Christian Weisenborn

In LILI MARLEEN, Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays a resistance fighter battling against the Hitler regime. His name: Günther Weisenborn. Christian Weisenborn tells the dramatic life story of his father: As one of few members in his group the 'Red Orchestra' he barely escaped execution, but his life-long efforts to reinvigorate his friends sentenced to death by Hitler’s judges, had failed. For the entire Cold War and up until 2009, the group was treated as KGB agents and traitors to the country whi

GOOD ENEMIES – My Father, the Red Orchestra and I

I AM MY FILMS — part 2 ... 30 years later

2010, 98 min
by Christian Weisenborn

I met Werner over 40 years ago, even before I went to filmschool in Munich.After we had played a lot of soccer together and I had worked on a number of his films, I shot the first film about him in 1978. For the past few years, Werner’s brother Lucki Stipetic and I had wanted to produce a Part 2.The fortunate circumstance that the Goethe-Institut planned on bringing out an edition of Werner´s documentaries, along with a new film, sped up the process.

I AM MY FILMS