Harun Farocki Movies

  • 2014
    Phoenix

    Phoenix

    Phoenix

    6.8622014HD

    German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing...

    Phoenix
  • 2001
    The State I Am In

    The State I Am In

    The State I Am In

    6.92001HD

    Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins...

    The State I Am In
  • 2012
    Barbara

    Barbara

    Barbara

    7.22012HD

    In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her...

    Barbara
  • 2007
    Yella

    Yella

    Yella

    6.22007HD

    A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon...

    Yella
  • 2005
    Ghosts

    Ghosts

    Ghosts

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    Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but...

    Ghosts
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

    Cinématon
  • 1991
    Images of the World and the Inscription of War

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War

    6.51991HD

    Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  • 1992
    Videograms of a Revolution

    Videograms of a Revolution

    Videograms of a Revolution

    7.81992HD

    Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news...

    Videograms of a Revolution
  • 2015
    A German Youth

    A German Youth

    A German Youth

    72015HD

    At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

    A German Youth
  • 1983
    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    6.11983HD

    This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  • 1969
    The Inextinguishable Fire

    The Inextinguishable Fire

    The Inextinguishable Fire

    6.21969HD

    An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

    The Inextinguishable Fire
  • 1984
    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    Class Relations

    6.81984HD

    A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

    Class Relations
  • 2002
    Starbuck Holger Meins

    Starbuck Holger Meins

    Starbuck Holger Meins

    4.32002HD

    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...

    Starbuck Holger Meins
  • 2016
    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL

    02016HD

    Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

    EXPRMNTL
  • 1985
    Betrayed

    Betrayed

    Betrayed

    01985HD

    A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

    Betrayed
  • 1966
    Two Paths

    Two Paths

    Two Paths

    01966HD

    This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description...

    Two Paths
  • 1996
    The Appearance

    The Appearance

    The Appearance

    5.81996HD

    An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign....

    The Appearance
  • 2003
    War at a Distance

    War at a Distance

    War at a Distance

    62003HD

    In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

    War at a Distance
  • 1995
    Pilots

    Pilots

    Pilots

    5.81995HD

    Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

    Pilots
  • 2005
    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    02005HD

    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...

    Who is Helene Schwarz?