Eckhart Schmidt Movies

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Documentary about the history of German television.

About the Roman Cycle II

About our way from the water to the stars.

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck,...

The girls are filming themselves having fun to show who they really are.

A Palermo head-off-legend about love and hate.

Documentary about the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Paintings and poetry about the end of it all.

Documentary about Ray Bradbury

About all-time-ready-girls who want to pursue a career in Hollywood but end up as dead meat on Mulholland Drive.

Dante talks in La vita nova about "Colore D'amore", without saying what color love may have in his eyes. Perhaps he wanted to say that love has a lot...

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Hans Werner Henze's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg".

Adaptation of "Der Prinz von Homburg"; recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.

The love goddess tries it in Trieste.

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...

A movie by Eckhart Schmidt using the pseudonym Raoul Sternberg.

Documentary about the new generation of Hollywood stars in the early 2000s.

For him it was just an affair, for her it was the love of her life. And now she is in Rome to see him, to put pressure on him, to threaten with...

Italo Tedesco has vanished and his actresses are searching for him.