Films by Marita Neher 

2022, 52 min
by Marita Neher 

In the 1960s Tippi Hedren suddenly became famous with Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS and MARNIE. The actress bears the brutal attacks of the living seagulls and crows, but she fights back at the director's sexual assaults. In 'TIPPI HEDREN und die wilden Tiere' she looks back with gratitude and disgust on her time with Alfred Hitchcock.

Germany 2021, 260 min
by Marita Neher 

The most dangerous railway lines in the world are breathtakingly beautiful, fascinating and lead through extreme landscapes.They touch the sky and for some they go straight to hell afterwards, leading over extreme heights, across oceans or savannahs and braving hurricanes. A challenge for intrepid engineers and railway builders who have been conquering nature with state-of-the-art technology for almost 300 years. Railway lines are not only legendary carriers of myths, people and machines. They are also the proof of high engineering skills and witnesses to the indomitable will of humankind to open up new routes into the unknown in order to conquer nature and its treasures. Railway lines on all continents tell the story of industrial culture, of progress and the art of travel.

Germany 2018, 52 min
by Marita Neher 

The typographer Hermann Zapfmins career spanned seven decades. He designed over two hundred fonts and created a typographical bridge between the Renaissance and the digital age. He designed the typefaces Optima, Palatino and Zapfino which are installed on every Apple computer today. A film about the lifework of an extraordinary typographer.

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Marita Neher 

Equal opportunities and the distribution of power – what is the reality in European boardrooms today? In in-depth interviews, we look at the careers of three top female managers from Germany, France and Spain.Do women need a gender quota to achieve greater professional success? In Germany, legislation was passed in 2015 requiring 30% of top management positions to be filled by women. In France, a 40% quota has been legal reality since 2011 with fines of up to € 90,000 imposed for non-compliance. In the quota-resistant country of Spain, on the other hand, career women are still something of a rarity. Even now, there is no political party that would have introduced quota legislation. Quality, it is claimed, is what counts – not quotas. Clichés are rife: women lack ambition and drive and as a result fail to break through the notorious glass ceiling to reach the male-dominated executive floors. Three senior-level managers Anka Wittenberg, Senior Vice President of SAP Germany, Fanny Letier, Executive Director of investment bank Bpi France and Maria Luisa de Contes, Secretary General and General Counsel of Renault Spain, offer us an in-depth insight into their day-to-day life, both private and professional, and speak candidly about European society’s position today as regards equal opportunities and gender-based discrimination.

Germany 2012, 70 min
by Marita Neher , Irene Höfer

Mothers and daughters are like heaven and hell. Inseparably connected in love and hate. It can be marvellous, but also a nightmare. The documentary (Mom-) Heaven and Hell reveals this contradiction. Mothers and daughters talk about their relationship in the 3. Millennium - exciting, provocative, wholehearted and authentic.