Zdf 3sat Movies

How do people live in snowbound areas? What are the mechanisms for simply moving snow around? How have ski resorts mechanised what ought to be a...

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three...

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical...

After years of silence, a mother returns to her dying father, only to fixate on his new partner, using her as a distraction from confronting the...

In this film, shot in Drachhausen/Hochoza in southern Brandenburg, film students from Potsdam reinterpret Schiller's play ‘Die Jungfrau von...

The ensemble of buildings that makes up the maternity clinic and art school in Hamburg where the director taught is the starting point for this sober...

Henrik Ibsen's drama from 1882 in Ostermeier's vision since 2012. Dr. Stockmann discovers that the source of drinking and spa water is riddled with...

In a dystopian world where hard work is rewarded with lucid dreams, Kian's quest for eternal bliss is shattered by a rebellious newcomer. Forced onto...

The second recording of 2025 Arena di Verona, this time with Anna Netrebko.

Portrait of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

Was grandpa a Nazi? When director Jens Schanze confronts his mother with her father's past, decades of silence have passed. The information that...

Don Giovanni, opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte) that premiered at the original National Theatre in...

Portrait of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" is a famous spectacle that is enigmatic and exotic at the same time - and just because of...

In this autobiographical documentary, Rosa explores her anxiety, derealisation, and a mother-daughter bond shaped by shared trauma.