Films by Martin Schomers

Germany 2014, 180 min
by Sebastian Lemke, Jonas Niewianda, André Schäfer, Viktor Stauder

This series accompanies the geographer, photographer and explorer Michael Martin on five of his unique desert expeditions. Michael Martin's goal is to compare the world’s most spectacular hot and indeed cold deserts. Over the course of three years he has undertaken 40 expeditions to 24 locations and circled the globe four times. He not only documents the fantastic landscapes in his photographs but also the people who live under these most extreme circumstances. Of these 24 locations, we have ch

Germany 2010, 90 min
by Andrew Davies, André Schäfer

Two reasons to revive interest in Rock Hudson in 2010: If he had not died of AIDS 25 years ago, it would have been his 85th birthday in November 2010. The film will be revealing a gay star doing a secret balancing act between the heterosexual world of an obviously very male looking star and the dark side of forbidden sexuality as a closeted gay. In fact someone who always needed to tell lies. Was he also lying to himself? German title: ROCK HUDSON – SCHOENER FREMDER MANN

Germany 2009
by Andrew Davies, André Schäfer

Doris Day, the most successful female box office star in the history of Hollywood, has written cinema history by simply playing Little Miss Average. She is still amongst us and celebrated her 85th birthday in 2009. Although she has not appeared in public for over thirty years, Doris Day is considered to be a cultural icon of the 20th and 21st century. The documentary will reflect the turbulent and successful life of Doris Day with extracts and trailers from some of her many feature films and TV