Raphaela Film

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?

Documentary about Hollywood.

Documentary about the American actor Rod Steiger.

Documentary about the director Budd Boetticher.

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

A selfie-film.

Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives.

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them.

Once before, the ravishing lake mermaid Undine has warned her lover Raoul. Their humid-romantic fairy-tale love is in danger because Raoul's brother wants to destroy the pristine mountain lake idyll with an ambitious hotel project. Undine defends her paradise. She is alluring, but also perverse and unpredictable. She can give a lot of love, but she can also kill.

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities from show and film document the well-known glamorous side of Sunset Boulevard, Schmidt also witnesses the transformation in the wake of a gigantic investment boom

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.

An Amour-Fou-Story of an old man and a young girl, remembered by the girl at the Roman places of their love. This is the first Roman Cycle Film.

Documentary about the Italian director Francesco Rosi.

Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be...

Second part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Documentary about Hollywood.