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Perthes, Haack and Heidi. Heidi books - From Gotha to the World

A 45 minute documentary for MDR
On Air: 1.6.2021 at 9 p.m. on MDR

Heiligabend - mit dem MDR-Kinderchor

24.12.2020, 16 Uhr im MDR:
Weihnachtslieder und ein Krippenspiel

Der Osten - Entdecke, wo du lebst: Im Reich der Blumenkönigin. Das Rosarium Sangerhausen

Eine 45minütige Dokumentation
on Air: MDR, 08. September 2020, 21 Uhr

Der Osten - Entdecke wo du lebst: Leben unterm Apfelbaum - Die sächsischen Obstmacher

Eine 45 minütige Dokumentation
on Air: MDR, 13. Oktober um 21 Uhr

Schau in meine Welt: Eléna auf der Jagd nach dem goldenen Schnatz

on Air: KIKA, 13. Dezember 2020, 20:25 Uhr und Mediathek

A very animated war-Krieg der Bilder

52 Minuten
Eine französisch-deutsche Koproduktion von kolam Productions/ Paris mit schmidtFilm
on Air: MDR/ARTE, 2021

Lebensläufe: Kurt Weill. Von Dessau zum Broadway

30 Minuten
on Air: MDR, 02.04.2020, 23:05 Uhr

Die Wende im Eis

45 Minuten
on Air:
ARTE 52 Minuten: 1. Oktober 2020
ARD 45 Minuten: 9. November 2020

The eye of Africa. The Film Pioneer Hans Schomburgk

90 Minutes
on Air: ARTE, 2020 July

Volle Kraft voraus – das Comeback von Aken

on Air: MDR 29.10.2019
45 Minuten

Exakt-Die Story: Grippeschutzimpfung: Sinnvoll oder nutzlos?

on Air: 30.01.2019 20:45, MDR

Der Osten: Entdecke, wo du lebst: Movie Castle and Sanatorium – The Castle of Vitzenburg

30 Minuten MDR
on Air: 05.06.2018

Shining Elster. The spa Bad Elster

on Air: 30th of January 2018, MDR
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The secret of the Martin Guitar

on Air: December 2017

In the shadow of the Red October. Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakovich.

2017 will be the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution. The revolution of 1917 has changed the world for good and had an impact on the lives of millions of people.

on Air: November 5. 2017 ARTE

The Georgi Pit in Wansleben – The deadly treasury of the Nazis

Documentary of the series “Der Osten – entdecke wo du lebst” of the MDR

on Air: 9th of May 2017, MDR

The Masters’ Houses of Dessau

They are the most famous colony of artists of the 20th century. At their time they epitomize modern living. Archetype for housing projects in Israel, in the USA, South America: The Masters’ Houses of Dessau.

on Air: 22.11.2016 20:45, MDR
Preview: 17.11.2016 19:00, Bauhaus Dessau Auditorium

Schwalbe und Plasteschüssel. Alltagsdesign in der DDR

45 Minuten
on Air: 20.12.2016 22:05 Uhr MDR

Dederon – The wonder silk from Schwarza

Documentary of the series “Der Osten – entdecke wo du lebst” of the MDR
on Air: 31.01.2017 20:45 MDR

Traumkulisse im Elbsandsteingebirge - 80 Jahre Felsenbühne Rathen

30 Minuten, MDR

Goths and the world: 1

Black clothes, pale complexion, old symbols – that’s what we see from the outside. But isn’t Gothic more than that? A trip into the “black” universe.

Goths and the world: 2

Black clothes, pale complexion, old symbols – that’s what we see from the outside. But isn’t Gothic more than that? A trip into the “black” universe.

Story of his life: Max Reger

An intoxicated life: Max Reger drank, ate and especially worked way too much. He devoted his entire life to music. The film sketches the short but intensive life of one of the greatest, though not uncontroversial, composers of his age.

Story of his life: Benno Pludra

For more than 60 years Benno Pludra was a unique voice of German and international children’s and youth literature.

White-clad tormentors – By order of the politbureau

During GDR-times young women were held at a clinic in Halle. They were humiliated and got dubious medical „treatments“.
At the Mediathek

Verdis Land. Ein Roadmovie durch die Emilia Romagna

Being a world famous composer Verdi’s private life was quite different – he was a farmer. In a Cadillac we cruise through the Emilia Romagna, the region that influenced Verdi with its landscapes, people and cuisine, and where his memory his kept alive until today.

schmidtFilm visits pope Benedict XVI

The pope is celebrating his 85th birthday and wishes for a serenade of the MDR choir and and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Documentation of the concert tour of the Gewandhaus Choir in India

From the 11th of March to the 18th of March the Gewandhaus Choir will travel to India, following an invitation by the Goethe Institute.

Ice-cold Reunification – The story of the last GDR-expedition to Antarctica

Two teams of researchers – one from the GDR, the other from the FRG – experience the German reunification together in the Antarctic. A spectacular event, even tens of thousands of kilometers away from home.

Masterpieces of classical Music 2007

What music can all speak about; immersing into the mind of the composers

White splendor and big ambitions

They all meet at the winter sports resort of Oberhof: the high society of the German Empire, of the 1920s, of the Nazi era, and later of the GDR. The film shows the development of a small village that is pregnant with history.

His Majesty is back

30 min, Digi-Beta, MDR broadcasting and 3sat broadcasting 2005

15 years: the Fall of the Wall

20 min, Digi-Beta, 2004

Inspired by that fervour - 400 years of the State Orchestra Weimar

30 min, Digi-Beta, MDR and 3sat broadcasting, 2001

Children without a past - Lebensborn

The „nordic glorious man“ was meant to be born and raised in the Lebensborn maternity homes. For the children who were born here, though, life turned out anything but glorious.

The candy bomber – 50 years of the Big Lift of Berlin

20 min, Digi-Beta, Dutch Television "2 Vandaag"

Jewish life in Germany nowadays

20 min, Digi-Beta, Dutch Television „2 Vandaag" broadcasting, 1997

The Volkswagen industry and its role in the Third Reich

20 min, Digi-Beta, Dutch Television „2 Vandaag" broadcasting, 1997

The broken tunes – the violinist Hellmut Stern and the consequences of the Novemberpogrome of 1938

15 min, Digi-Beta, Dutch Television "2 Vandaag" broadcasting, 1998

The man without a face – Markus Wolf: top spy of the GDR

Für die Nachrichtendienste des Westens war Markus Wolf jahrzehntelang der Mann ohne Gesicht. Mehr als 30 Jahre leitete er den Geheimdienst der DDR.

Story of his Life: Carl Philip Emanuel Bach – A music rebel

Nobody knows anymore that Carl Philip Emanuel Bach was much more famous in his time than his father Johann Sebastian. The film portraits the eventful life of this exceptional and strong-willed virtuoso.

16x Germany: Thuringia, with Dominique Horwitz

Weimar – the name reminds us of classical German cultural history, of Goethe, Weimar Republic, Bauhaus, and nowadays especially of museums. Yet, does Weimar only live in its past? The director and actor Dominic Horwitz shows us his very own perspective on this old city of culture.

Sleuthing industrial wastelands: Praktica – Cameras from Saxonia

Everyone wanted one, not only in the GDR. Prakticas were much sought after in West Germany, too.

Tracking in ruins – ORWO Wolfen

Wolfen near Bitterfeld: Huge old halls from the prosperous times of the 1920s, faded logos, a museum with shiny original machines, high prefabricated concrete buildings and hundreds of stories. All this reminds of ORWO: “Original Wolfen”, the synonym for photo- and filming material in the GDR.
A film by Anna Schmidt

Tracking in ruins – the steel mill of Maxhütte

A 45-minute documentary for MDR broadcasting

Dubai

Camera: Dirk Schneider
Cutting: Sascha Werner

The Hagia Sophia

For centuries its construction was one of the biggest secrets of mankind. Now the German historian of architectural art, Professor Volker Hoffmann, disclosed the secret of the eighth Wonder of the World.

Wagner in Kasachstan

After Kazakhstan and Germany have drawn nearer economically during the last few years their relations have now also been intensified on a cultural level – within the frame work of the German-Kazakh Year. Its closing event, at which Wagner was performed for the first time in the Central Asian model state, allows striking a balance concerning these efforts. And schmidtFilm is on site.

Happy Brigades and forced labor - Working women of Wolfen

The GDR film factory Wolfen had two faces: as a symbol of GDR’s economic growth it was known world-wide: It’s color films were shipped as far as Egypt and India. Produced by skilled female workers, but also by compulsory laborers and prostitutes. The documentary shows both sides.

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