Films

Glasgow

A City Reborn

1990, ARD / BBC, 45 min

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Gondwanaland

The secret of the lost Continent

2004, , 3 x 52 min

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H. W. Henze: " The Prince of Homburg"

1992, BR, 88 min

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Hate on Hitler

The Ritchie Boys

They were young. The world’s most unlikely soldiers. As teenagers they had escaped the Nazis. They trained in intelligence work and psycho-logical warfare, and returned to Europe as US soldiers - with the greatest motivation to fight this war: They were Jewish. They called themselves “The Ritchie Boys”. Christian Bauer´s film “The Ritchie Boys” tells a story that’s never been told before. It begins in Camp Ritchie, Maryland, the birthplace of modern psychological warfare, and it ends with the defeat of Germany in May of 1945. After D-Day the Ritchie Boys became a decisive force in the war. Nobody knew… 2004, ARD, 45 min

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Heartbeats

The Life of Erwin Fischer

When 60 year-old Erwin Fischer is not fishing in Spain´s Ebro reservoir, he´s at home in Teisendorf breeding birds. The fun-loving hobby fisherman was a soldier with the German armed forces until a sudden heart attack at the age of 45, forced him to make fundamental changes to his life. Seriously ailing, he was given his pension and packed off into early retirement. He attributes the fact that he is still alive today to a heart transplant. Erwin has been living with his new heart, which came from a 20 year-old motorcyclist, for ten years now. He´s a tough cookie,… 2006, BR, 45 min

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