Films by Dirk Szuszies

Germany 2021, 99 min
by Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies

In the life of Walter Kaufmann, who lives in Berlin and is now 97 years old, important events, catastrophes, and tremors of the last century which continue to have an impact on our present day. are reflected in the most extraordinary way. The film follows the adventurous journeys and experiences of the Jewish, German-Australian writer all over the world: Germany, USA, Israel, Cuba, Japan, Northern Ireland, Australia. Since his youth,Walter Kaufmann has sided with the persecuted, disenfranchised,

Germany 2011, 104 min
by Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies

BUT LIFE GOES ON deals with the subject of expulsion that has, for decades, been a conflict-ridden issue in the relationship between Poland and Germany. Three Polish and three German women, representing two families, meet in Platerówka, formerly known as Niederlinde, located about 20 kilometres from the German-Polish border at Görlitz / Gorzelec. Both families suffered expulsion from their ancestral farms. Today they want to overcome the paralysing speechlessness. Their desire is to find recon

Germany 2009
by Dirk Szuszies, Karin Kaper

THE BRIG is an act of rebellion. The founders of The Living Theatre, Judith Malina and Julian Beck, were among the initiators New York’s first General Strike for Peace in May 1963. It follows that they were the ones to take up ex-marine Kenneth Brown’s manuscript and bring it to the stage in 1964. The viewer becomes a part of a claustrophobic world where there is no escape from the intrinsic violence. The Living Theatre, with their moving attack against a sacred institution like the Marines, bec