Films by Ralf Klingelhöfer

Germany, Italy 2020, 60 min
by Chiara Sambucchi

The steel industry has a huge impact on people and the environment worldwide. Iron ore mines and steelworks pollute land and air, while some former industrial areas are being transformed into landscape parks.Carajas in Brazil, Duisburg in Germany and Taranto in Italy – three places that couldn’t be more different yet have one thing in common: the steel industry. Each location represents a different phase in the struggle against what are in many cases all-powerful steel companies. In Brazil, our

1990, 90 min
by Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus

Unique film material, never previously screened, shot by six German soldiers as they invaded the Soviet Union in WW II. The specific angle - that of amateur film-makers - and the use of 16mm colour film, means the film provides a completely different picture of the Eastern Front.The men who took the pictures have been traced and interviewed. Their enthusiasm about the technical quality of the pictures gives the film a cruel insight into the perfection of the Nazi machine. [IFFR 1994]