Raphaela Film

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?

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

Documentary about Hollywood.

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.

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.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

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

Anthology film by Eckhart Schmidt.

The German director Percy Adlon talks about his career.

Dark crazy stories about Los Angeles and girls to dream of.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Venus variations on Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley.

Tragic and true stories about destiny and celebrity.

Documentary about Federico Fellini

About a poor girl who wants to be rich and famous.

Documentary about Italian cinema.

While searching for the girl of his dreams in the City of Eternity, he has to cross many streets and meet many other girls in order to to meet her again.