The Shipwrecker
Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”
Wolf-Eckart Bühler
Wolf-Eckart Bühler
Casts & Crew
Burkhard Driest
Rüdiger Vogler
Hannes Wader
Hans-Michael Rehberg
Hans Quest
Nicolas Brieger
Kent O. Doering
Also Directed by Wolf-Eckart Bühler
Documentary about Vietnam.
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.
Documentary about Italian musician and lawyer Paolo Conte.
Documentary about American filmmaker Leo Hurwitz.
Documentary about American filmmaker Abraham Polonsky.
During the Vietnam War, lots of US soldiers fathered illegitimate children with women in Southeast Asia. They often grew up in orphanages, a fate shared by many of these so-called Amerasians. It is the questions of guilt, origin and homeland of these soldiers and children which the film pursues in a semi-documentary manner. In various conversations, GI and Vietnam veteran John Scott meets with people in Thailand who all have to struggle in their own way with the homelessness resulting from this past.