Eckhart Schmidt
Inspired by Titian's painting of the same name, the film tells the dramatic-grotesque story of two friends. A dazzling ritual of good and evil, and in the end, earthly love may be more heavenly than heavenly love.
I had to go on with "Stella" to see how things would go after the Last Judgment. The idea was then to let the dying girls live the promise of a return to their dreams.
A fearful dark voice from the Old Roman Empire is terrorizing a young woman towards suicide.
About the death of filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt, told from the perspective of a Mexican girl in Culiacan, Sinaloa. She is 16, she needs the money and so she becomes the Maestra of the stranger who is at least three times her age.
A feature films consisting of two episodes of women talking about the same tragic love stories to an unknown camera operator in a Motel Room in Hollywood...
A movie by Eckhart Schmidt using the pseudonym Raoul Sternberg.
A man stalks the Hollywood Boulevard in search of prey.
A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavour to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.
German Documentary about the Austrian-American Movie Director Otto Preminger.
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
Laura works in a café in Sunset Plaza and lives in the Saharan Motel on Sunset Boulevard. She falls in love with the young writer Raoul. While Laura is open with her feelings, Raoul cannot seem to show his feelings for her.
Girls in L.A., Rome and Muinch tell their fake stories as if they were true stories.
Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them.
Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be...
This 82-minute 1991 documentary by Eckhart Schmidt features a 1980 interview with Douglas Sirk in which he reflects on his career.
Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father escapes reality into an affair with his secretary while her mother reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.
With "Der Fan" (1982) director Eckhart Schmidt had created an interesting type of cold thriller with 80s German New Wave pop music. "Alpha City" is probably the best among the bunch of his movies which followed "Der Fan". Shot in Berlin entirely at night, "Alpha City" tells the story of young Raphaela (Isabelle Gutzwiller) who is stalked by Frank (Claude-Oliver Rudolph) and falls in love with an American killer (Al Corley). Carried by a frantic, seemingly uncontrollable Rudolph and a beautiful Isabelle Gutzwiller who reminds me a bit of Mathilda May here (including the gratuitous nudity), the main attraction of "Alpha City" is nonetheless the vision of a city that does not exist during daytime, much more a fantasy film than a whodunit. So, if you are the kind of person that listens to David Bowie after midnight or thinks walking in neon-light beats candlelight dinners anytime, this is for you. (IMDB)
Dreaming of the "gold of love," Patricia loses herself in a search for the modern Holy Grail in an abyss of violence, murder, drugs and betrayal.
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her. In an instant, she is caught "in a trance" and feels a murderous urge that is bigger than the both of them.
A movie with three episodes directed by Hannes Dahlberg, Roger Fritz and Eckhart Schmidt.
An underage girl starts an affair with her much older employer. Then, her lover is sentenced for the seduction of a minor, and the young woman gets involved with his son, the junior head of the company. When his father is released from prison, father and son become rivals for their shared lover.
T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking until he finally finds the address. There, he finds out that he has delivered his own judgment.
Coming back to Rome a girl remembers her Sicilian holidays, her first great love and her confrontation with the tragic death of her friends in a terrorist attack.
