Thomas Heise

In the documentary, the rapper Bushido speaks in detail about his publicly announced break with the powerful Abou Chaker clan. The Spiegel TV ...

Documentary about a juvenile prison in Mexico City.

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell ...

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a ...

“Pictures from the late eighties in the GDR on up to the immediate present in the year 2008 in Germany. What has been left over besieges my ...

The third part of Thomas Heise’s time-lapse observation, in which he accompanies the people of Saxony-Anhalt. At the centre of the film is ...

Over seven years, director Thomas Heise revisits five young actors from his 2007 Berlin staging of Heiner Müller’s “Anatomy Titus.” At irregular ...

Thomas Heise, noted documentary filmmaker from the former GDR, takes a trip to France to visit his brother Andreas. His brother lives there in a ...

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.

In Saxon-Anhalt, near the town of Zerbst, set away from busy roads, next to a deserted military landing strip, is the village of Straguth. An ...

Eight years after the first cinematic encounter with right-wing extremist youths in Halle Neustadt, Thomas Heise revisits the protagonists and ...

The documentary relates how in the second half of the 20th century the agent Berthold Barluschke was first a henchman of the State Security ...

A group of young people in Halle-Neustadt moving aimlessly between the concrete blocks once built as a socialist model housing estate. Familiar ...

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are ...

Thomas Heise documents the everyday life of the “People’s Police Force” in Berlin Mitte.

Thomas Heise’s documentary portrays the meeting of officials and citizens in the district office of Berlin-Mitte in 1984. The movie ...

“This was my first student documentary. I shot it over the Easter vacation in 1980 on 16mm, black-and-white reversal film. Apart from two ...