Burkhard Driest Movies

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness,...

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion,...

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an...

A gang of Berlin crash kids meet regularly on the roof of the former GDR Foreign Ministry. They swarm out to break into cars, get high on drugs and...

A scary serial killer is around: he cuts off young women's tongues. Commissioner Michelle Eisner notes striking similarities between the three...

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police....

The crook couple Peter and Gwen have run away from Germany and are dreaming of a sweet life on Mallorca. During a break-in at the villa of...

The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the Rote Arme Fraktion. The Swedish James Bond, Carl...

Ibiza police commissioner Toni Costa cancels his holiday, a rare chance to be with his daughter, to investigate the stabbing murder of the sous-chef...

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces...

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated...

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities...

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the...

Zündschnüre explores the emotional and psychological aftermath of war. The story follows two former soldiers who return home after serving...

The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his...