The project THE GARDEN. CINEMATICS OF THE SOIL is dedicated to the British filmmaker, artist and activist Derek Jarman. His eponymous film "The Garden" as well as his legendary garden "Prospect Cottage" are the starting point for a contemporary artistic…
Screwball comedy in Greek: With the claim that the famous Venus de Milo in the Louvre in Paris is a fake, an art professor causes great turmoil. His daughter Barbara goes to Greece to the island of Milos to investigate the real statue.
The film series in front of the Red City Hall shows popular, current and classic productions, Hollywood films, documentaries, entertaining works related to science. They form an ideal basis for discussions. In addition, before the film, scientists:inside tell…
Open Air Cinema Pompeii - Open Air at Ostkreuz the cinema axis. Light plays in Friedrichshain presents the most beautiful summer films in the open air.
Barbara Baum is one of Germany’s most renowned costume designers. "Close-Up" reflects Barbara Baum’s creative oeuvre via her major films, including Die Ehe der Maria Braun (West Germany, 1978, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Homo Faber (GER/F/GR, 1991…
It is one of the most influential feature films in film history: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (director: Robert Wiene) premiered on 26 February 1920 at the Kino Marmorhaus in Berlin. On the occasion of its centenary, we are dedicating an exhibition to the…
The permanent exhibition focuses on its two defining media – film and television – from their origins to the present. In keeping, the exhibition on the history of film ranges from an 1895 newspaper advertisement highlighting the Wintergarten’s film program to…
With 42 educational and promotional films, the Film Archive of the German Historical Museum owns an important collection of productions made with funds from the European Recovery Program. Some Marshall Plan films from the Filmarchiv have been digitized and…
A twelve-year-old boy suffers from the fact that his working parents have grown apart and care little for him even in the evenings. When he persuades his father to pick up his mother from work, they discover that she has a lover. Finally, the boy considers…
Ësáasi Eweera, one of the last kings of the Bubi people of the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, and a thorn in the side of the Spanish colonial powers, died in 1904 in mysterious circumstances. The film reopens this unsolved case a century later (…)…
James, a penguin from the South Pole traveling around the world, meets polar bear Vladimir in the icy world of the North Pole. Together they look at the stars, wonder about the length of polar nights, and realize they want to know more. Together they build the…
One of this unique filmmaker’s greatest works, and on paper, one of his most minimalist: ten shots of the sky, each lasting ten minutes. But the experience of watching – and hearing – it is fabulously rich and intense. The skyscapes are filled with life and…
#StayOut is a performative installation that reflects and questions the habits of individuals in public. In a hypothetical society, people have to live inside a bubble. Their behavior fluctuates between the repetition of their obsessions and the desire to…
Costume designer Barbara Baum first worked with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder during the filming of 'Effi Briest'. Together they created strong female cinematic characters in several films.
"Die Ehe der Maria Braun," the 38th film in the short life of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is the first part of the FRG trilogy (along with "Lola" and "Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss") and forms the center of Fassbinder's examination of the founding myths of the…
In movies and theater, actors wear costumes. A good costume helps the actor or actress to put themselves into a role. But who is actually behind this work and how, for example, is a costume for a queen or a thief created? Museum mediator Gitte Hellwig explains…
Berlin 1939 to 1941: A sinister serial killer is wreaking havoc on S-Bahn trains. The victims of the "S-Bahn Murderer" are exclusively women. Based on court records and trying to present the case as factually as possible, the film deals with how the Nazi…
