Films by Sylvia Strasser

2015, 90 min
by Sylvia Strasser, Wolfgang Würker

In November 1915 the physicist Albert Einstein gives a talk on general relativity theory at the Preußische Akademie in Berlin. He presents a paper of a few pages only: the 'perfect theory' that has been challenging physicists and mathematicians, nowadays even more than ever before.Who is this man who embodied the triumph and tragedy of the 20th century as no other?What made Einstein the genius, an ikon and the most famous thinker on earth?And why is he still relevant to our endeavours to master

2015, 90 min
by Sylvia Strasser

Footprints left by our early European ancestors in some painted ice age caves of the French Pyrenees are interpreted for the first time by expert trackers from southern African hunter-gatherers. Unlike the spectacular cave paintings these random traces have mostly been neglected or destroyed. Western scientists are faced with an intricate task: to make these silent testimonies of the earliest men speak. For the first time they do not want to rely on their own expertise and so they will seek the