Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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....

Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She′s alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new...

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are...

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

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.

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”,...

A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest...

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...

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

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...

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