Films by Roland Wagner

Germany 2021, 90 min
by Roland Wagner

As in numerous countries around the world, there are massive cuts in the public and private lives of citizens in Germany during the course of the corona pandemic. Public institutions are being shut down or have to close. The world has changed suddenly.The director and cameraman Roland Wagner takes his camera to those places that visually show the effects of the shutdown most clearly. They are places of silence, places of standstill, but also places where the time is used for repairs and cleaning

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Luigi Falorni, Roland Wagner

When author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957 he was penniless. But one year later his only novel, 'Il Gattopardo', was published and went on to become a global success with more than 13 million copies sold to this day. In 1963, Luchino Visconti's film adaptation, starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon, received a Palme d'Or in Cannes. However, hidden behind the genesis of 'Il Gattopardo' there is a true love story – which almost outshines the novel: that of the autho

2012, 104 min
by Jörg Bundschuh, Matthias Heeder, Nigel McCarthy

From Bazar to Wall Street:After the financial crisis and the events of the Arab Spring the Western world has been exposed to an alternative, religion-influenced system of economics called Islamic Finance. Indeed, in the shadows of our conventional financial system, Islamic states have developed another option that appears to have been less affected by the crises of recent years. But what is really behind this concept, how did it emerge, and what makes it different from the standard system? From

Germany 2010
by Sabine Pollmeier (PARNASS FILM)

This is architecture for the 21st century. The series Up to the Sky presents three of the latest and outstanding skyscrapers. Three new towers in New York, Malmö and Barcelona that have set new standards in world architecture. Never before have so many skyscrapers have been built like in the first decade of the 21st century. Thanks to computer technology, today calculations and constructions have been made possible that were unthinkable some years ago. World-famous European architects like Norm

Germany 2009, 78 min
by Sabine Pollmeier (PARNASS FILM)

3x26min or78 minPart one: Hearst Tower, New York Part two: Turning Torso, Malmoe Part three: Torre Agbar, Barcelona This is architecture for the 21st century. The series Up to the Sky presents three of the latest and outstanding skyscrapers. Three new towers in New York, Malmö and Barcelona that have set new standards in world architecture.Never before have so many skyscrapers have been built like in the first decade of the 21st century. Thanks to computer technology, today calculations and cons

Germany 2006, 92 min
by Christa Graf

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. In front of the small brick house Dennis and Chrissi brush their teeth every evening in the dim glow of the oil lamp. The 10-year-old watches his little sister conscientiously as they get ready for bed. Since their mother died of AIDS two years ago they are both orphans, two of more than two million of their kind in Uganda. There are few countries in Africa that have more households run by orphane