Films by Robert Krieg

Germany 2012, 83 min
by Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte

Grandfather Bawo Reinhardt, his son Lulo and his grandchild Sibel are the main figures in the documentary film NEWO ZIRO; joining them is Sasha Reinhardt, the initiator of DJANGO’S HEIRS, a Sinti and Roma Music Festival in the country town Koblenz in southwest Germany. The film provides deep insights into a culture which is among those most discriminated against in Europe. Bawo, Lulo and Sibel live actively in Germany’s majority society without denying their roots. Sasha does not believe in 'new

Germany 2010, 87 min
by Robert Krieg

A black-and-white photograph, six boys about ten years old posing perkily and flashing victory signs for the camera. That was Bethlehem in the year 1989 during the Palestinian popular uprising and the shooting of Robert Krieg's documentary film "Intifada - On the Way to Palestine". Twenty years later the areas that were supposed to be liberated are enclosed by a wall. Who are the children in the picture? What are their lives like today? Are they alive? Holding the photograph, the film team retur

Germany 2005, 45 min
by Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte

Shame never silenced Paul B. One of hundreds of thousands declared 'unworthy of living' ('lebensunwert') under Nazi racial laws, he is one of the very few to publicly fight for his rehabilitaion. By focusing on Paul B.'s story, the film reveals a dark chapter in German psychiatry, which didn't exactly end in 1945. Several decades later, the consequences have caught up with Paul B. once again.

Germany 2001, 87 min
by Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte

A documentary film journey across northern Chile retracing the steps of the author's ancestors, merchants from Hamburg, who acquired their wealth with saltpetre. The nitrate from Chile was 'white gold' to the Europeans; to the Chileans it was 'salt of the desert'. To the Europeans it meant, lasting wealth and to the Chileans, it meant short-lived profit. The salt dissolved and only the gold remained.

Germany 1998, 90 min
by Dr. Robert Krieg

Our film is about Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe who, as young men and women, emigrated to Palestine in the thirties, under the influence of the Zionist movement, and helped to found the State of Israel. These men and women pushed for a peace agreement with the Palestinians as early as the forties and fifties, at a time when such activity was still regarded as treason. The subjective memories of these nonconformists establish historical contexts of which very few people are aware, providin