Jürgen Böttcher Movies

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus...

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father...

Documenting a May Day demonstration in West Berlin in 1972

Kochberg Castle was once owned by the von Stein family and Goethe visited Charlotte von Stein there several times. On the occasion of the "1000 years...

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of...

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both...

A young literature student Andreas Alt, works as a ghostwriter on the memoirs of a former, now elderly courtesan. Her granddaughter Josefine also...

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with...

Film report about the meeting of the youth organization of the GDR (FDJ = Freie Deutsche Jugend) with guests from 57 countries as well as the 8th...

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher)....

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

In this interview with contemporary witnesses, painter and director Jürgen Böttcher talks about some stages of his professional career....

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance...

History and art in Berlin's new center. Like a fossil, the Marx-Engels-Forum, a large, ambitious monument project of the GDR, adorns a central...

Documentary accompanies the great DEFA film director and painter Jürgen Böttcher, alias Strawalde, detail through his biographical and...