Movies: Stefan Drößler

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new ...

A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12....

An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul....

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, dest...

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß - required viewing for all SS members. This documentary is an eye-openin...

In the Viennale 2008, Wolf Wondratschek, pronounces a laudatio by the filmmaker Werner Schroeter, in which, despite needing more time to do it, as he himself says at the beginning, he manages to highlight the great work of this master of different Ge...

Discussion between Werner Schroeter and critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt at the Vienna International Film Festival 2008....