Films by Volker Heise

2023, 180 min
by Volker Heise

In early 1933, Berlin is one of the most modern cities in the world, full of contrasts and life. Twelve months later: the city is in the thrall of one party and one Führer.BERLIN 1933 – DIARY OF A METROPOLIS tells the story of how Berlin, the vibrant hub of modernity, became Germany’s staunch capital city in step with the Third Reich. Contemporary journals, letters and documents, photographs and film material, form a dense collage of the dynamics of this collectively organised disaster. We obser

Germany 2020, 180 min
by Volker Heise

Berlin 1945 time-travels in cinematic style into the city’s most fateful year through the eyes of those, who experienced it: the German population and Allied soldiers.Berlin 1945 tells the story of liberation, defeat, and reconstruction in a city transformed from a theatre of war into a field of ruins. Through the eyes of the victors and the vanquished, Berlin 1945 reveals a multi-layered transformation of a city and its inhabitants. With surprising, never before seen archival footage, we recons

Germany 2008, 1440 min
by Volker Heise

Berlin has an unstable history, was the Reich’s capital, became a landscape of rubble, a border town, a divided and finally a reunited city. Today, Berlin is still a city of contradictions, always in search of its identity.“24h Berlin” portrays a day in the life of one of the most loved European metropolises, 20 years after the Wall came down. One whole day in the life of a city and its inhabitants experienced and shot, by professionals and amateurs, planned and spontaneous. One year later broad