Films by Douglas Wolfsperger

Germany 2018, 80 min
by Douglas Wolfsperger

In Lake Constance, the fifth store of Europe’s biggest pharmacy chain opened in 2017. Even more nappies and toothpaste for the tourist shoppers of Switzerland. Until 2016, the accommodation used to be residence of the Scala Filmpalast. When Douglas Wolfsperger arrives, the protests are still in full swing – it's the last rebellion of a dying cinema. He talks to movie enthusiasts and bureaucratic local councilmen.Town centres and the meaning of culture is changing. But who are the wirepullers?

2014, 83 min
by Douglas Wolfsperger

Holocaust? Again? That’s the first reaction of the members of the youththeatre company at Berliner Schaubühne when they hear about their newestproject. They shall play the children’s opera ‘Brundibár‘, famous for its beingperformed at the concentration camp in Terezín/Theresienstadt.This is not a highly theoretical history lesson at school, and so they arethrown into the maelstrom of history when they travel to Terezín to learnabout the terrors of the Third Reich and the place where Brundibár p