Jonathan Briel Trailers
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Most Popular Jonathan Briel Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press Trailer (1984)
09 March 1984
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr.
Like Two Merry Aeronauts Trailer (1969)
05 July 1969
The double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and his companion Henriette Vogel on November 21, 1811 at the Kleiner Wannsee in Berlin is the focus of this film.
A Man Aglow Trailer (1975)
24 July 1975
Vienna, March 18, 1863: the poet Friedrich Hebbel, weakened by fever, spends his fiftieth — and final — birthday confined to bed.
Jonatan Briel's Lenz – A German Physiognomy Trailer (1971)
02 November 1971
A portrait of the life of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), a playwright of the Sturm und Drang period and friend of the young Goethe, with evident parallels to the life of the filmmaker himself.
The 300th Birthday Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
First film made in Wolfgang Staudte's seminar at the DFFB. The film reflects Briel's own experience with bureaucracy — shot at his former workplace at Fehrbelliner Platz in West Berlin.
A Quite Strange Case of Love Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
An adaptation inspired by Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. TV film.
Weighed and Found Too Heavy Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Briel's first independent production after leaving the DFFB, made for the Sender Freies Berlin. The title is a biblical reference (Daniel 5 — "you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting").
The Stars That Smile Upon Their Cottage Trailer (1981)
29 August 1981
In the early 1970s, Briel recorded conversations on tape with the opera and concert singer Adelheid Pickert, then nearly 90 years old, in a garden house in Wilmersdorf.
Your Humble Servant Scardanelli Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
A drama about Friedrich Hölderlin, a poetic genius caught between madness and withdrawal from the world.
The Double Stranger Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A film about the successive stages of the inner loss of one's homeland.
Elli, SO 36 Trailer (1984)
13 March 1984
A visit to another world: that of transvestites, leather men, costume artists, and exotic tourists from around the world — a carousel that has been sounding through the nights of the Berlin SO 36 district for nearly fifty years.
Tago Mago Trailer (1971)
10 December 1971
A story revolving around the assassination of socialist leader Jean Jaurès in Paris in 1914. The script was improvised, and the film was shot on location in Mainz, Reims, Paris, Ibiza, and Formentera.
Kleist Project Berlin Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Not documented. The title suggests a documentary or artistic project around Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin, a recurring theme throughout Briel's work.
Berlin, Berlin, Berlin Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
The film presents three faces of Berlin as a visual puzzle: the old imperial and fascist Berlin; the newly reconstructed Berlin around Breitscheidplatz; and finally, Berlin as evoked by the elderly Adelheid Pickert, an opera singer of almost 90 who was famous as a Mahler interpreter around 1910.
As Long As You Love Me, I Cannot Go Wrong Trailer (1985)
02 January 1985
Based on a text by Susette Gontard — the beloved of Friedrich Hölderlin, who signed her letters under this name.
