Otto Sander Movies

An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O....

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by his own lawyer. The fact that he has become fat...

A cautionary tale about what happens if you scam a kid.

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's...

A film about a young man (Otto Sander) in a poor Bavarian village who plays the role of the village idiot.

Follows the writer Günter Kunert on his return to West Berlin after his emigration from the GDR.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating,...