Films by Wilfried Hauke

Germany 2024, 52 min
by Wilfried Hauke

Three hundred years after the birth of philosopher Immanuel Kant in April 2024, this documentary takes us back to 18th-century Königsberg.Immanuel Kant, born in Königsberg in 1724, was already one of the key Enlightenment thinkers during his lifetime and is still one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy today. Kant wanted to explain the world, but at the same time he was aware that he himself – like all human beings – only had a limited capacity for understanding. He never left

2018, 52 min
by Wilfried Hauke

Once celebrated as a life saver, penicillin today is alarming researchers all over the world. A fascinating film about the history and current status of antibiotics.Ninety years ago, in the summer of 1928, Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. It took another two decades and a world war for him and others to succeed in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities that the epidemics of that time – typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis – could be eradicate

Germany 2008
by Wilfried Hauke

Abraham Lincoln is the embodiment of the American Dream: his vision a free America united in peace and the abolishment of slavery made him an icon. Lincoln’s ideas resulted in a many casualties during the Civil War and eventually put himself in the line of fire himself. Our docu-drama tells the fascinating story of Abraham Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth, who planned the assassination like a Shakespeare plot. LINCOLN'S LAST NIGHT was filmed at historic locations and feature film sets