Movies: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

An ascent to the mountain in Tyrol with the music of Mozart....

A film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg....

Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist....

Hans Jürgen Syberberg grew up in the town of Demmin, the subject of his current film. The history of the town, in which a mass suicide with hundreds of deaths took place at the end of the Second World War, plays an important role. In his film, Syberb...

Film by Syberberg....

A short film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg....

In Heinrich von Kleist's "Penthesilea", war, the death of love and erotic cannibalism merge into a battle of the sexes. The drama, which was published in 1808, was not premiered until 70 years later. It is considered almost unplayable. Edith Clever a...

A film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg....

Film by Syberberg....

Behind the pulpit of the Gothic church, speakers take turns. A thousand names are written on the rustling pages: that’s how many people committed suicide in the town of Demmin in the spring of 1945. For decades, their fate was a taboo subject in Germ...