Films: 2009
Charged with murder: a friend on trial
A murder case and a trial purely resting on circumstantial evidence, presented from an unusual perspective: This documentary follows a group of young people – all well educated and established in their professional careers – who stick by an old school friend who is accused of having brutally murdered his aunt – for reason of avarice. Not one of his friends can believe he’s guilty. Frauke, his fiancé, Mate, the brother, his closest friends Jochen, Matthi and Michi. They have known the accused murderer for a long time, and very well – no one thinks that their friend is capable… 2009, BR, 90 min
Dinner time Germany!
Tales from Germany`s Kitchens and Tables from 1945 to today
One might ask what smelling, tasting and enjoying has to do with German history... the answer is that food is one of our most intensive experiences and everyone has a favourite recipe that takes them back in time. How much did our grandparents enjoy their first, fatty joint of roast pork after the war, how exciting did our mothers find their first hamburgers with real, exorbitantly priced, ketchup, and how hip did we think we were the first time we ate sweet and sour chicken? And how naturally today's teenagers order Sashimi etc. Recipes recall memories in an even more… 2009, WDR, NDR, BR, 3 x 45 Min., 3 x 30 min
Jack the Ripper
In the late summer and autumn of 1888, Victorian London was shaken by a series of murders which were to become ingrained in the collective memory of the world. Still today, nobody knows who murdered five women in the impoverished district of Whitechapel or who wrote the anonymous letter claiming to be the murderer. It was this letter, signed by Jack the Ripper, that gave birth to the name that still lives on. More than one hundred years later, a host of criminologists and hobby researchers are still trying to bring the identity of the murderer to light. They have… 2009, ZDF, 45 min
On the Banks of the River of Ice
In the High Alps there are only a few places where untouched nature and civilisation live as close together as on the Großglockner Mountain. Since the construction of the High Alps Route, thousands upon thousands of tourists drive to the mountain summit every year, high above the Pasterze, Austria's largest glacier, which is losing volume every year. Matti Bauer sets off to visit people who live on the edge of the glacier: mountain guides, national park attendants, landlords and sheep farmers. They each have their own opinions of the Pasterze, which legend says used to be a green meadow. On… 2009, BR, 45 min