Films by Gerhard Ziegler

Germany 2020, 83 min
by Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

33 days of utopia is a film about remembering, digging up stories/history.In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp "Free Republic of Wendland" and thus prevented for a short time drilling for the planned nuclear waste repository in the nearby salt dome.Attila Dészi, archaeologist, Univ. Hamburg, made excavations at the protest camp  2017-2018. Digging for the history of the resistance, so to speak. What was the archaeologist looking for? What did he f

2014, 15 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict.

Germany 2010, 92 min
by Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

Wilde(r)mann shows during one year the life of a very special farmer, Wolfgang Beuse and his sheppard, Helmut, both living in a small village Wildemann in the HARZ mountains. The farmer is kind of radical and very clear explanating what’s happening economical around him. He explains his situation with admirable lucidity. We watch him,his cows, goats, dogs, all the animals and people round the farm, also the life of some friends and relatives, which are unemployed paupers.It's a dying regio