Films by Felix Moeller

2022, 77 min
by Felix Moeller

Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, driven to new extremes by the COVID crisis. This film documents the visual roots of this new anti-Semitism, taking a historical look at the visual propaganda of the Nazis.Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, and everyday hostility towards Jews remains frighteningly topical. As a side-effect of the global COVID pandemic, international research and monitoring entities are observing how (old) images of Jews as the enemy and conspiracy theories are being recycled in the digital world. Anti-Semitic content is posted millions of times and shared on video platforms and social media. These memes, media codes and imagery thus reach completely new target groups and have a deep impact on the mainstream. Messenger services are becoming sounding boards for hate and incitement. This film documents the visual roots of this new anti-Semitism, taking a historical look back at the visual propaganda of the Nazis: Do clichés, stereotypes and narratives from Nazi films such as Jew Suess, The Rothschilds or The Eternal Jew continue to have an impact today? Researchers on extremism, international historians, and online activists decode these old and new stereotypes, provide insight into the historical context, and follow the traces of the anti-Jewish conspiracy narratives that seem so closely related to old enemy images from Joseph Goebbels's propaganda ministry.

Germany 2009
by Daniela Schmidt-Langels

Julia Franck is one of the key female writers in new German literature and winner of the German Book Prize for her novel “Die Mittagsfrau”. The film links her personal biography with key moments in her work and thereby also tells a piece of east-west German History. World Sales: Wavelength Pictures, UK

Germany 2008, 100 min
by Felix Moeller

Veit Harlan was Nazi Germany’s most successful film director. A hundred million spectators saw his films all over Europe, including the perfidious anti-Semitic Propaganda film “Jew Süss”. The documentary presents the first biography of Veit Harlan and shows how his family - including the youngest generation of Harlans - struggles until today with the dark myth of artistic immorality. with:Thomas Harlan, Maria Körber, Caspar Harlan, Kristian Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, Jessica Jacoby, Alice Harlan, Chester Harlan, Nele Harlan, Lotte Harlan, Lena Harlan a.o. press voices: „Largely interesting and thought provoking. (…) What motivated Harlan to write and direct such a film? Was he a Nazi true believer, an opportunistic careerist or just a filmmaker too fearful to say no? (…) The issue has various possible answers, all of which Mr. Moeller's film ponders without favouring one over another.“ New York Times „A brilliant new documentary on Harlan and his legacy.“ The New York Review of Books „Moeller avoids sensationalism and pointing fingers, letting each side have its say. “ New York Post „The gamut of emotions revealed before Moeller's camera is extraordinary.“ Haaretz World Sales: Cinephil, Israel

Germany 2005
by Felix Moeller

With numerous unknown film clips the documentary portrays Hildegard Knef’s way from the very young actress during the Third Reich, to her first film parts in the German film studio Ufa, her involvement in the last battle of Berlin in 1945, her survival in post-war Germany, her comet-like rise to the first German film star after WW II, and her time in Hollywood. with: Kurt Hirsch, David Cameron, Paul von Schell, Alexander von Demandowsky, Volker Schlöndorff a.o.

Germany 2003
by Felix Moeller

It is a journey through three generations and more than 70 years of filmmaking and history in Germany. Paul Verhoeven was a major stage director in the 1930s, but became famous primarily as a film director during the Third Reich and in post-war Germany. This portrait with film clips from various epochs of the German film is a combination of film history and family biography. With: Michael Verhoeven, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Stella Maria Adorf, Simon Verhoeven, Luca Verhoeven, Volker Schlöndorff