Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The...

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

The two-part film by Hartmut Bitomsky is an "essay film with a plot." It revolves around the transportation of books that are meant to go from Munich...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband...

"Highway 40 West" (1980/81) is the first of a series of documentaries by Hartmut Bitomsky (born 1942 in Bremen) which brought him international fame....

Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape. Japanese gardens are often...

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discourse of images meet