Films by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

Germany 2020, 83 min
by Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

33 days of utopia is a film about remembering, digging up stories/history.In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp "Free Republic of Wendland" and thus prevented for a short time drilling for the planned nuclear waste repository in the nearby salt dome.Attila Dészi, archaeologist, Univ. Hamburg, made excavations at the protest camp  2017-2018. Digging for the history of the resistance, so to speak. What was the archaeologist looking for? What did he f

Germany 2018, 65 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

Family Life shows every day life of Biggi (50), her teenage daughters Saskia and Denise and Biggis violent ex-spouse Alfred (55) as well as their 5 horses, their 6 dogs, the cats. They live isolated in an old farm house in a small village in eastern Germany. Each of them has troubles to getting along with life. They love to sing songs to express themselves, especially Biggi and Alfred. Both don’t have jobs and the two girls find always reasons to stay at home. They need each other and care for e

Germany 2017, 44 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

After years of silence, Yasmin meets her mother Eleonore. Everything is discussed: The nights, when Yasmin and her brother were on their own, while her mother stunned herself with drugs, but also Eleonore’s own severe childhood trauma. An encounter rich in memories, reproaches, justifications, silence, despair – the yearning to understand each other and above all the desire to be able to forgive.You were my life is the sequel to the multi-award winning short film A Girl’s Day, portraying Yasmin

Germany 2015, 100 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler, Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

I am showing in a radical personal approach the gradual disappearing of my husband, Jochen Foelster, 69 years old (theatre director and stage actor). And I accompany him in this, through the three and a half years of his struggle with cancer, in his daily life, and also with the camera. Someone has a cancer diagnosis. Like thousands of people every year. How does he deal with it? How doe I and our daughter, Rosa Hannah Ziegler, (feature film director) – how are we dealing with it privately, and

2014, 15 min
by Rosa Hannah Ziegler

An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict.