Films by Dominik Graf

Germany 2023, 167 min
by Dominik Graf

Was it possible to be a good, even outstanding writer and still come to terms with the National Socialist regime? The feature-length documentary MELTING INK takes a closer look at the writers Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Hans Fallada, Jochen Klepper, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper, who remained in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and explores the attitude they developed towards National Socialism in their writings, thoughts and perceptions. A film essay on the complex relationship between art and po

Germany 2017, 120 min
by Dominik Graf, Johannes F. Sievert

More than a third of all German feature films ever made are believed to have been lost without trace – and this is not referring to the silent movie era.In OPEN WOUNDS – A JOURNEY THROUGH GERMAN GENRE FILMS, we embark on another archaeological journey through the quarries of German film history. And try to throw light onto some of the paths that could have been continued, but were cut short.German film, constantly teetering back and forth between euphoria and an inferiority complex since the pos

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Dominik Graf

One of the most influential German television directors remembers another TV personality, thus reflecting on German television history and German history in general. The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz’s autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Dominik Graf reads passages from this account and, by juxtaposing them with clips from S