Volker Koepp Movies

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Biographical search for traces of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in Georgia. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917,...

Documentary about the region next to the river Memel.

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a...

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

Tracing biographical lines, Volker Koepp steps into his oeuvre, rich in encounters. Returning to Lithuania, Moldova and Chernivtsi, he looks back and...

In the west of Ukraine, not far from the border to Romania, there is a faraway European city: Chernivtsi. It was once the centre of Jewish culture in...

Chernivtsi, an out-of-the-way city in the middle of Europe. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the capital of the crown province of...

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly...

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the...

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent...

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).