Michael Ballhaus Movies

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way...

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the...

The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite...

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored...

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her...

110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Corinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for...

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio...

Vera Tschechowa, actress and filmmaker and a close friend of Michael Ballhaus. One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey...

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording...