Films by Thomas Frickel

Germany 2018, 100 min
by Peter Heller (c/o filmkraft)

The film tells from the personal perspective of the filmmaker the history of the Munich district cinema 'Maxim'. The Maxim was centre of his private and professional life. The cinema had been managed for 40 years by the lone fighter Sigi who persistently opposed all trends. The Maxim was a venue, catalyst and home of political documentary and a birthplace of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival. But the political weapon "Maxim" had become dull time by time. The old cinema corner lo

Germany 2017, 97 min
by Thomas Frickel

Miracles of Reality is an encounter with the versatile German performance artist and filmmaker Martin Kirchberger, who mixed up the narrow-minded atmosphere of his German home-town in the eighties. At the same time the film tells the story of the worst accident in the history of film production: 28 people died when a plane crashed during the shooting of a short ‘mockumentary’ about ‘security’.After 25 years, Thomas Frickel draws a very personal portrait of his friend and colleague Martin – as a

Germany 2011, 86 min
by Thomas Frickel

As the chief reporter for DDC TV, Dennis R. D. Mascarenas has gotten himself into some pretty sticky situations in the past. But his latest assignment threatens to push him over the edge. While investigating the Germans’ relationship to the moon, he inadvertently stumbles into a maelstrom of mind-boggling paradigms, which in an absurd way bring Germany’s dark past back to life.Beginning with harmless lunar-obsessed New Agers, his travels take him deeper and deeper into a bewildering thicket of e