2022, 90 minby Michael Teutsch
My father Rudolf Teutsch was an early member of the NSDAP, later a soldier and in the Waffen SS. After he never wanted to talk to me about this past, 40 years ago his second wife gave me information about his life. In 2021, I re-enacted this conversation with an actress in a reading and confronted it with the statements of six Jews from France, Germany and Israel about their life stories, which they confided in me.
Seeking the Lost Ones
Germany 2018, 90 minby Michael Teutsch
"All because of Granny" deals with the friendship of my Berlin family to a Scottish family which lasts for more than sixty years now.In 1955 my grandma invited a Scottish soldier for X-Mas dinner and he liked our family very much and came to visit my grandmas´ home very often. I felt like having a big brother coming out of the blue.After Alec met this tall, blond German girl Heidi, a nurse trainee, and both married, got three children and immigrated to Australia. When our families first met, it
All because of Granny
Germany 2013, 87 minby Michael Teutsch
Café Ta'amon, King-George-Street, Jerusalem Golda Meir drank coffee here and so did Shimon Peres. The Ta'amon is one of the oldest cafés in Jerusalem and it is world famous. It has been a meeting place for radical Leftist-political-activists, artists, politicians and the literati. Israel and its political development have been fervidly debated here – in the past as well as today. The café is history in a microcosm. Established in 1936, a Jewish family took it over again in the 60s. Together with
Café Ta´amon, King-George-Street, Jerusalem
Germany 2009by Wolfgang Scholz (KottwitzKeller)
A film about the process of painting, the way a painter thinks and decides in a worldof observation and being observed.In this portrait, Gerda Lepke speaks for the first time about the story of her life, of the difficulties of becoming an accepted artist. We accompany her in her studio and her home in Gera and Dresden.A documentary about the "Kafkaesque" life enclosed in her studio space and her mother's small house and garden, with insight into the difficulties of a female painter who grew up
IMAGE INSIDE
Germany 2005by Michael Teutsch
The pianist Alice Sommer is a hundred nine years of age and lives in London and is the eldest living pianist and eldest survivor of the holocaust. She experienced events of high importance of the last century: World War First, The Inflation, World War Second, the Holocaust, the Liberation, Communism, Emigration, and the Construction of the State of Israel – life stations of a 20th century eyewitness and cosmopolite. The documentary film discovers what makes this little old lady
From Hell to Paradise or Chopin saved me
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