Films by Roswitha 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 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

Germany 2013, 85 min
by Niels-Christian Bolbrinker

Ever since radio and television were invented, paranoid people have been startling us with their detailed descriptions of imaginary technical apparatus, which, according to their theories, is being employed for surveillance and manipulation purposes. At the same time, however, this kind of technology was, in fact, being researched and built. This film is about the interplay between madness and method.

Germany 2010, 92 min
by Roswitha Ziegler (Wendländische Filmkooperative)

Wilde(r)mann shows during one year the life of a very special farmer, Wolfgang Beuse and his sheppard, Helmut, both living in a small village Wildemann in the HARZ mountains. The farmer is kind of radical and very clear explanating what’s happening economical around him. He explains his situation with admirable lucidity. We watch him,his cows, goats, dogs, all the animals and people round the farm, also the life of some friends and relatives, which are unemployed paupers.It's a dying regio