Michael Ballhaus Movies

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

Documentary film.

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

Essentially an extensive travelogue through Greece and its islands, this 103-minute documentary was written, directed, and shot over a two-year...

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

This movie is about the liberation by the Sandinistas of the Anastasio Somoza regime in NIcaragua. The movie covers some of te key points in the...

A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...

A couple (Karin Thome and Eberhard Klasse), whose relationship can't hold up to the pressure of their financial and career problems, only have their...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

By accompanying 20 very different individuals in today's Berlin, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and filmmaker Ciro Cappellari sketch a portrait of...

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at...

Anywhere in the world, 20 years from now. Underground. Watch out for the signs...