Films by Johannes Straub

Germany 2019, 132 min
by Michael Bernstein, Anja Schürenberg

Discover the world with original mobile libraries and their no less unusual librarians. Mobile librarians take books to places where people live on the edge or offside and the next book is just too far away. They take us with them when they travel with their books - in India, Italy, the USA, the Caribbean or Colombia - they tell us about their motives, their infectious enthusiasm for reading and acquaint us with the world of their readers.• Carribean with Micha RoggensingerIn the southern Caribb

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Christian Lerch

“Well, I just wanted to die!” the 89-year-old Lenz declares at the start of this magnificent Heimat film by Christian Lerch. Then we get to know him as a spritely patriarch in his natural habitat, a roadside restaurant on the B12 road. A touching film about the intrinsic life force. (DOK.fest Munich)With Mit Lorenz und Manfred Gantner, Manfred Tremel, Franz Fußstätter, Anton Angermeier, Konrad Kirschbauer, Elie Petrova, Rico Fleerl, Reinhold Fleerl, uva.

Germany 2016, 52 min
by Annette Baumeister

As children we practically devoured ’The Flying Classroom‘, ’Emil and the Detectives‘, and ’The Parent Trap‘ – with a flashlight under the covers. Today we ask ourselves, who was this man, Erich Kästner, who always smiled at us from the photograph on the book jacket? What kind of person resides behind the cheerful, witty, and at times aggressive façade? What is the deal with ’his doppelganger‘ and the ’other Erich‘ that he frequently talks and writes about? At first appearance Erich Kästner seem