Films by Lutz Pehnert

Germany 2022, 107 min
by Lutz Pehnert

A biography set in East and West Berlin in which singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner, born in 1947, sings about life in the GDR, her feelings of being uprooted in West Berlin, and looks back with humour and honesty on a life of resistance. [72 Berlinale]

Germany 2021, 540 min
by Tim Evers, Lutz Pehnert, Thomas Zimolong, Artem Demenok, Gabriele Denecke, Karoline Kleinert, Anna Bilger, Karin Reiss, Peter Scholl, Reinhard Joksch, Dagmar Wittmers

A Berlin chronicle of superlatives: six decades, from the 1950s to the 2000s, when Berlin is once again the capital of a united Germany. By using archival footage from both sides, news and interviews by former channel Freies Berlin, and material from GDR television, the series vividly displays everyday life in Berlin from both sides of the wall. The divided city shows a diverse picture: cosmopolitan city and quiet suburbs, international politics and everyday life, the scene for stories big and s

Germany 2018, 130 min
by Adama Ulrich, Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert

In a society that increasingly resists new ways of thinking and aesthetic transgressions, Frank Castorf calls theatre ‘the last partisan.’ As its director since the early 1990s, Castorf made the Berlin Volksbühne a place of the avant-garde.The film accompanies Castorf on his farewell production of ‘Faust’, while also providing a glimpse of the engine room of this theatre factory. Comrades-in-arms, including the actors Sophie Rois and Alexander Scheer, recall the theatre‘s unique work environmen