Films by Mario Schneider

Germany 2019, 90 min
by Mario Schneider

If you look into Uta's (70) face, around which the camera circles softly, you can divine her unusual life story. In these rugged, almost male features in her face one thing is written: confidence. Uta is almost blind. She and her partner live a modest life on the breadline. She is a street musician and a unique personality. Her songs tell stories of love and loss, of fast-moving time and a rampant fun society. Hearing of the hard times in her life, one is spellbound and surprised, because Uta ha

Germany 2012, 98 min
by Mario Schneider

The slag heap rises like a wall above the small town in the Mansfelder Land. It’s a relic of a past when there was still mining and industry here – like the “Glückauf” song that’s always intonated at the start of the Whitsun celebrations. For centuries people have gathered on this date to drive out winter in an archaic ritual. Men wallow in the mud of the unthawed meadows, digging their nails in the earth to be chased away by boys in traditional white costumes decorated with flowers who ca