Jonatan Briel Movies
- 1979
Das Geheimnis
Das Geheimnis01979HD
No synopsis available.
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- 1975
A Man Aglow
A Man Aglow81975HD
Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed. In...
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- 1982
Your Humble Servant Scardanelli
Your Humble Servant Scardanelli01982HD
A drama about Friedrich Hölderlin, a poetic genius caught between madness and withdrawal from the world. "Scardanelli" was the pseudonym used by...
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- 1985
Katja
Katja01985HD
No synopsis found.
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- 1971
Tago Mago
Tago Mago01971HD
A story revolving around the assassination of socialist leader Jean Jaurès in Paris in 1914. The script was improvised, and the film was shot...
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- 1969
Like Two Merry Aeronauts
Like Two Merry Aeronauts01969HD
The double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and his companion Henriette Vogel on November 21, 1811 at the Kleiner Wannsee in Berlin is the focus of...
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- 1984
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press5.61984HD
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the...
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- 1970
Weighed and Found Too Heavy
Weighed and Found Too Heavy01970HD
Briel's first independent production after leaving the DFFB, made for the Sender Freies Berlin. The title is a biblical reference (Daniel 5 —...
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- 1970
Berlin - Berlin - Berlin
Berlin - Berlin - Berlin01970HD
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- 1981
The Stars That Smile Upon Their Cottage
The Stars That Smile Upon Their Cottage01981HD
In the early 1970s, Briel recorded conversations on tape with the opera and concert singer Adelheid Pickert, then nearly 90 years old, in a garden...
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- 1987
Kleist Project Berlin
Kleist Project Berlin01987HD
Not documented. The title suggests a documentary or artistic project around Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin, a recurring theme throughout Briel's work.
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- 1971
Jonatan Briel's Lenz – A German Physiognomy
Jonatan Briel's Lenz – A German Physiognomy01971HD
A portrait of the life of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), a playwright of the Sturm und Drang period and friend of the young Goethe,...
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- 1982
The Attempt to Sing a Song
The Attempt to Sing a Song01982HD
No synopsis found.
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- 1985
The Double Stranger
The Double Stranger01985HD
A film about the successive stages of the inner loss of one's homeland.
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- 1970
Berlin, Berlin, Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, Berlin01970HD
The film presents three faces of Berlin as a visual puzzle: the old imperial and fascist Berlin; the newly reconstructed Berlin around...
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- 1985
As Long As You Love Me, I Cannot Go Wrong
As Long As You Love Me, I Cannot Go Wrong01985HD
Based on a text by Susette Gontard — the beloved of Friedrich Hölderlin, who signed her letters under this name. This places the work in...
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- 1973
A Quite Strange Case of Love
A Quite Strange Case of Love01973HD
An adaptation inspired by Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. TV film.
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- 1967
The 300th Birthday
The 300th Birthday01967HD
First film made in Wolfgang Staudte's seminar at the DFFB. The film reflects Briel's own experience with bureaucracy — shot at his former...
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- 1984
Elli, SO 36
Elli, SO 3601984HD
A visit to another world: that of transvestites, leather men, costume artists, and exotic tourists from around the world — a carousel that has...
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