Known for Production
Born
February 15, 1971 (age 55)
Birthplace
Bielefeld, Germany
Filmography
16 films, 3 shows


Peter & Wendy
2015 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Lucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she makes a connection with JM Barrie's classic story of Peter Pan and is soon whisked away to her own Neverland


The Invisible Woman
2013 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.


Funny Games
2008 · 1h 51m
country: United States
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.


Young Yakuza
2007 · 1h 30m
country: France
Meet the Japanese Mafia's latest son: a 20 year old named Naoki, part of a surging, decade-long wave of juvenile delinquency in Japan. As Naoki rejects school, jobs and family, his desperate mother decides to take one last chance to save him--by handing him over to the Mafia for one year and letting him choose his own path.


The Mourning Forest
2007 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.


Natural Enemy
2004 · 1h 37m
country: France
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.


Niki and Flo
2003 · 1h 39m
country: Romania
In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable.


Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
2002 · 1h 25m
country: France
A behind-the-scenes look inside Yves Saint Laurent’s legendary atelier during the creation of his final Spring line.


Kafka Goes to the Movies
2002 · 54m
country: France
While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.


Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times
2002 · 1h 17m
country: France
An intimate biography featuring extensive interviews with the reclusive designer.


Workers Leaving the Factory
1995 · 36m
country: Germany
Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of workers leaving factories throughout the years.