Films by Isabelle Casez

Germany 2015, 112 min
by Simon Brückner

The psychologist Peter Brückner has been a lot of things in his life: a 'half-Jew' and a runaway, an underground activist and a Wehrmacht soldier, a communist with party-ban, a father and a family refugee, a democrat and an enemy of the constitution, last but not least the first tenured university professor banned from teaching. He died in 1982 hailed by the protest generation of 1968 as their beloved scholar. His heritage includes the headstrong social psychology of liberation. At the time of his death, his youngest son Simon was four years old. Thirty years later, Simon, now a filmmaker, embarks on a journey to get to know his father and he discovers a personality with multiple secrets.

Germany 2009
by Birgit Schulz

In the early 1970s, three left-wing lawyers fought against what they saw as the restrictive state apparatus of the Federal Republic of Germany. They defended individuals before the law who had been labeled enemies of the state. Today, one is Germany's former Minister of the Interior, another represents the leftist conscience of the Green Party, and the third is a right-wing extremist in jail for denying the Holocaust. The three lawyers are Otto Schily, Hans-Christian Ströbele und Horst Mahler. They speak with director Birgit Schulz about their experiences defending accused members of the Red Army Faction in the German courts, about their ideals, and about the aspirations for the future which they shared at that time ­ and also about what became of them in the end. Each of the three believes that he has remained true to his convictions.