Literarisches Colloquium Movie Trailers

The Foundling Trailer (1967)

10 June 1967

The story centers on the Roman merchant Piacchi, who raises the foundling Nicolo after the death of his son and bequeaths all his possessions to the young man.

The Future of Emily Trailer (1985)

31 May 1985

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films.

The Cuckoo Years Trailer (1967)

07 November 1967

Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks.

Niemanns Zeit - Ein deutscher Heimatfilm Trailer (1985)

17 February 1985

A lone scholar researches the visual and textual worlds of National Socialism. The film approaches a critical understanding of "German identity" from a multimedia perspective - off-screen commentary is superimposed over shots of paintings, literary quotations over feature film sequences and at the center of the film is a television debate on the subject of nature.

Blinker Trailer (1969)

16 May 1969

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

Lenz Trailer (1971)

24 March 1971

Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of the Alsatian priest and philanthropist Oberlin.

Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob? Trailer (1977)

03 November 1977

An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrities from the worlds of culture and finance (and thus secure his own career) - an attempt that fails miserably.

Technische Universität Berlin Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

Wolfgang Ramsbott's first film for the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB): "Technische Universität Berlin" is a kind of image film for the Technical University of Berlin, where Walter Höllerer, director of the LCB, taught as professor of literary studies.

Is This Fate? Trailer (1979)

29 March 1979

A portrait of a family in Berlin in the late 1970s, this film focuses on the mother.

Germany Pale Mother Trailer (1980)

26 September 1980

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front.

Abends, wenn der Mond scheint Trailer (1965)

01 February 1965

The grotesque portrayal of an attempt at communication, graphically and rigorously depicted: In the LCB's second production, Peter Rühmkorf and Helmut Herbst bitingly trace a relationship story that is already over before it has begun.

Anfangszeiten Trailer (1967)

06 April 1967

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

In-Side-Out Trailer (1964)

01 October 1964

“In-Side-Out” is the debut film by US beat poet George Moorse, a wildly colorful pop poem. The film critic Enno Patalas described “In-Side-Out” as a “fantastic abracadabra and erotic delirium” and considered it the best West German film at the 1965 Oberhausen festival.

Monument Research Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

In this essayistic piece, the only finalized installment of the television series "Fiction - Non Fiction", commissioned by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB), Günter Bruno Fuchs is— among other things— raising money for the demolition of the Siegessäule, while quoting Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert.