Films produced by Zdf 3sat

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...

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

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...

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...

Portrait of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Successfully completed your studies - now what? Raffly already has a lucrative job offer from a large German company, but neither an apartment nor a...

Does history with all its nightmares have to keep repeating itself? What bolsters the thin layer that shields us from the abyss?

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

Elsa is 20 and graduated from high school last summer. She spends her days sleeping. Reading. Thinking. Everyone else has made up their minds:...

Così fan tutte, comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that premiered in Vienna on January 26, 1790. It is the last of his three...