Films

The Films of the Marshall Plan

On the 5th of June 1947, the then US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced the European Recovery Program in an address at Harvard University: herewith he also started a film program as yet unparalleled in the media history. Some 200 documentary films were made during the years of European reconstruction within the frame of the Marshall Plan, highlighting the basic economic and social changes that the continent underwent in the post-war period. It is on these documentary films that our interest focuses: for they picture a Europe which only few of us can still imagine. And they document… 1997, BR / Arte / GMF, 60 min

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The Gothic

1994, FWU, 15 min

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The Human Odyssey

The Dawn of Man

2001 – the future is now. Six billion people live on planet Earth. People with fundamentally different hopes, fears, experiences. Six billion fates. But all of us share the ability to think and to feel – and our common roots. 2001 – The Odyssee of Mankind tells us how human beings populated the Earth across all continents over hundred thousands of years, from the beginnings in Africa to the south of America. We make a journey to the cradle of mankind, and on this journey decipher the secrets , which fossils from all over the world tell us about our… 2001, ZDF, 45 min

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The Human Odyssey

The Mystery of the Dragon Bones

2001 – the future is now. Six billion people live on planet Earth. People with fundamentally different hopes, fears, experiences. Six billion fates. But all of us share the ability to think and to feel – and our common roots. 2001 – The Odyssee of Mankind tells us how human beings populated the Earth across all continents over hundred thousands of years, from the beginnings in Africa to the south of America. We make a journey to the cradle of mankind, and on this journey decipher the secrets , which fossils from all over the world tell us about our… 2001, ZDF, 45 min

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The Human Odyssey

The Conquest of the New World

2001 – the future is now. Six billion people live on planet Earth. People with fundamentally different hopes, fears, experiences. Six billion fates. But all of us share the ability to think and to feel – and our common roots. 2001 – The Odyssee of Mankind tells us how human beings populated the Earth across all continents over hundred thousands of years, from the beginnings in Africa to the south of America. We make a journey to the cradle of mankind, and on this journey decipher the secrets , which fossils from all over the world tell us about our… 2001, ZDF, 45 min

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