Mona Mur in Conversation TrailerEine Hommage an Lautréamont TrailerDocumentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Elfi Mikesch Trailer
Elfi Mikesch was born on May 31, 1940 in Judenburg, Styria, Austria. She is a cinematographer and director, known for Execution: A Story of Mary (1979), I Often Think of Hawaii (1978) and Malina (1991). She has been married to Fritz Mikesch since 1960.
Total trailers found: 63
18 February 2010
A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".
24 January 1996
This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war.
23 April 2015
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
01 January 1994
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.
16 February 1991
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
01 January 1989
The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.
24 July 1997
Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.
19 February 1988
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin.
03 March 1986
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
16 January 1986
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his mind on profits.
01 January 1981
The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband.
26 September 2025
The film explores the life and career of the Hamburg-born musician, whose creative work began in the West German post-punk scene of the 1980s.
30 June 2022
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972.
14 February 1982
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house.
25 November 2011
Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin.
14 February 1992
From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women.
29 November 2007
Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught for six years.
16 March 2000
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century.
02 October 2003
Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is that the young woman is already the mistress of his father, Georges.
17 January 1991
An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina.
13 November 2007
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
30 September 1994
The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors.
11 February 2014
It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable.
30 January 1986
Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.
20 February 1998
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
07 April 2011
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
13 November 2002
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
28 March 2011
Documentary about Austrian city Judenburg and its art scene.
01 March 2001
This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted.
01 January 1983
A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision.
01 January 1983
Bondage was made from, among other things, footage Monika Treut filmed in New York with women of the LSM(Lesbian Sex Mafia/ Lesbian Sado-Masochists).
01 January 2001
A portrait of five St. Petersburgians and their connection to The Hermitage.
01 February 1997
On the occasion of the 30th birthday of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, founded in 1966.
12 October 2012
Aladdin’s parents separate when he is three. His father moves with him and his brothers to Tangier and re-marries.
12 June 1999
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture.
15 February 1989
A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young Moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's past.
23 October 2012
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades.
17 April 1980
A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the inhabitants, concentrating on a female couple who are spending the rest of their lives together in a close and intimate relationship.
10 February 1989
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
31 May 2005
Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of the enormous Villa Cargnacco in Lombardy, Italy, designed by proto-fascist poet Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938).
07 November 1996
German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris.
20 September 1979
This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart.
20 February 1997
Torsten Ricardo Engelholz, 31 years old, was locked in a dark room by his parents for most of his childhood and then placed in a psychiatric ward.
29 September 2005
Yi-Chun loves dancing. She attends ballet classes at her high school, with a lot of discipline, even if the exercises are painful.
27 September 1984
Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin.
30 May 1986
Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.
01 January 1982
Perhaps her name is Maria: A woman with blonde curls listens to a caller in her New York apartment, moving between the couch and the kitchen floor, getting deeper and deeper into her surreal fantasies, in which she lustfully tries out different roles.
23 February 1991
Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit.
06 September 1991
The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
31 December 2000
The cinematographer and idiosyncratic filmmaker Elfi Mikesch has significantly contributed to the extension of the aesthetic boundaries of the "standard" documentary.
17 October 2024
Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army.
10 May 2019
When Lieutenant Colonel Anastasia Biefang came out as transgender at the height of her military career, she became the first trans female commander in the history of Germany’s armed forces.
05 September 2009
24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities.
17 May 1990
The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex 'with Mother Earth', which Allen Ginsburg envisions for dealing with an AIDS-like contaminated earth.
09 April 1978
Semi-documentary film about the everyday life of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Berlin who lives with her single mother on the outskirts of West Berlin.
23 November 2017
About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years.
01 January 2005
Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.
