Films by Frank Müller

Germany 2016, 82 min
by Olga Delane

After living for 20 years in Berlin, Olga Delane returns to her family in Siberia. Members of her familiy and the village community comment on her modern, single life in the city, and tell her about their own none-too-happy marriages. Their relationships are traditional and practical: the man is the head of the household, the woman takes care of the housekeeping – and in fact, everything else. And what about love? “Love, marriage, it’s only a custom,” an elderly woman says. “If your husband hits

Germany 2012, 22 min
by Frank Müller (doppelplusultra)

“House or boat“? With this question Kurt Schultz confronts his family of six in 1957. After their lucky escape from the GDR they live in a flat of 50 sqm in a temporary home among allotment gardens at Billerhuder Insel, Hamburg. Kurt Schultz is having it his way. Despite the cramped conditions they decide on building a boat – they go for making a dream come true rather than playing it safe. The 10-meter steel yacht materialise