Zdf 3sat Movies

How do people live in snowbound areas? What are the mechanisms for simply moving snow around? How have ski resorts mechanised what ought to be a...

In this film, shot in Drachhausen/Hochoza in southern Brandenburg, film students from Potsdam reinterpret Schiller's play ‘Die Jungfrau von...

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three...

Henrik Ibsen's drama from 1882 in Ostermeier's vision since 2012. Dr. Stockmann discovers that the source of drinking and spa water is riddled with...

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...

The second recording of 2025 Arena di Verona, this time with Anna Netrebko.

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical...

The ensemble of buildings that makes up the maternity clinic and art school in Hamburg where the director taught is the starting point for this sober...

In a dystopian world where hard work is rewarded with lucid dreams, Kian's quest for eternal bliss is shattered by a rebellious newcomer. Forced onto...

Coal mining has shaped Lusatia for generations. In the GDR it was still an important industrial location but, after the fall of communism, companies...

After years of silence, a mother returns to her dying father, only to fixate on his new partner, using her as a distraction from confronting the...

Was grandpa a Nazi? When director Jens Schanze confronts his mother with her father's past, decades of silence have passed. The information that...

Does history with all its nightmares have to keep repeating itself? What bolsters the thin layer that shields us from the abyss?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" is a famous spectacle that is enigmatic and exotic at the same time - and just because of...

Portrait of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

With the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" commenced the remarkably successful cooperation between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The first...