Peter Lilienthal Movies

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

The examining magistrate Hopek goes to a lonely manor house to settle a property matter with the lord of the manor. When he arrives, he learns that...

About the election campaign of the first female member of the US Congress.

Based on motifs from the novel "Pornografia" by Witold Gombrowicz. The action takes place during the hot summer of 1970 in Cicero, a suburb of...

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill...

Following the life of the eccentric Aunt Flora, a woman of great imagination and curiosity. When her niece, Seraphine, visits her in a small town,...

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family’s dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead...

The two-part film "Noon in Tunisia" by Peter Lilienthal is a meeting of jazz and Arabic music at various public or open-air venues in Tunisia. Under...

The handicapped John Tuthill Crane is seized by his mother with "cannibal love". The heavily rich woman knows how to arrange his life in such a way...

The award-winning filmmaker Peter Lilienthal is dedicated to this extremely poignant documentary of U.S. military policy and the living conditions of...

A left-behind woman, through a surprising act, comes to receive two marriage proposals in one day, both of which she accepts, leading to grief and...

A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.

1919. Released from the teacher training college, Joachim Hofer takes up his first job as an assistant teacher in an Alsatian village. But only a few...

Feature film.

Sixty years after the Holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on Jewish life in Germany...