Films by Sobo Swobodnik

Germany 2022, 138 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Ramba Zamba: a theater with handicapped and non-handicapped people/actresses and actors, which has been living and working on inclusive integrative togetherness impressively every day for thirty years now. The film accompanies the mentally and physically impaired actresses and actors for six months through the theatrical production of the play GOLEM, from the beginning of rehearsals to the premiere.In doing so, the film is also partly influenced by the portrayed persons themselves, quasi inclusi

2021, 88 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Lotte Ingrisch, born in 1930 in Austria, was the first hippie, the first Green, a prophet of the Age of Aquarius, of cyberspace culture and - without being a feminist herself - a champion of the total change of roles for women. The film tries to get closer to this idiosyncratic and unique personality, both cinematically and aurally.with Lotte Ingrisch, Johanna Klug, Kathrin Angerer, Lars Rudolph, Ingrid Altermann, Christine Weber, Magdaléna Jánosová, Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmid and Unit

Germany 2020, 79 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

The traces of what we were in our childhood of how we got socialized, keep affecting our adult age, even if the circumstances of life are completely different now and we believe, that we’ve settled with the past. This ist why the return to our environment of origin, from where we’ve emerged and from which we departed, is always and at the sam time, a turning-back, a retrospective, a reencounter with our own self – preserved, as well as denied. Then something enters our consciousness, of which we

Germany 2019, 86 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

The diagnosis: an aneurysm in the brain. Then follow two nightmarish months during which we accompany the filmmaker. An essayistic audio-visual collage, in which Sobo Swobodnik shows us what it means to live with a potentially fatal condition.

2019, 88 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Thomas Walter was part of the Berlin autonomous scene. In 1995 he and two co-perpetrators were accused of having attempted an arson attack on an uninhabited deportation prison in Berlin-Grünau which was prevented by the police. Arrest warrants for the three as members of a leftist terrorist association are still valid today. They went underground for decades. It is only in 2017 that Walter contacts his family in Germany again – from Venezuela, where he has applied for asylum.Thomas Walter is als

Germany 2015, 90 min
by Pantea Lachin, Sobo Swobodnik

Ben Wagin, 85 years old, is one of the last true Berlin originals who for the last sixty years has influenced the city with his controversial style. The performance artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, tree godfather and anarchist has left his mark on the capital like no one else: not only an incredible oeuvre, but also the incredible energy and productivity of this small man, as well as his unbridled ingenuity are documented. Even if today most people in Berlin don’t even know w

Germany 2012, 93 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

They don’t have a steady place to live, they don’t have a work qualification, no bank account, no securities. They are young, they are intelligent, they are hungry: hungry for life, for music, for a future away from the civil conception. Two boys from East Germany stroll from city to city seeking their fortune as street musicians, whereby they constantly get into confrontations with society. But they have their friendship and a boundless optimism, to be able to shape their life as they like it -

Germany 2011, 74 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Frucade or advocaat?, was heavyweight Hermes Phettberg’s ritual opening question in the "Nette Leit" cult show which was broadcast daily on Austrian television in the 1990s, when they still dared to let loose on humanity an openly gay sadomasochistic provocateur. Today Phettberg is Austria’s most prominent welfare recipient and constantly in and out of hospitals with an impressive list of strokes, bladder weakness and a heart attack. He shuffles ponderously, humpbacked and 100 kilos lighter thro