Direction: Harun Farocki
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Harun Farocki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR
1989 · Documentary · 74 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Ulrike Grote
Plot This "high-compression collage" by Harun Farocki delves into an unsettling incident in history. In 1944, U.S. planes flew over and photographed Auschwitz, but the pictures remained undiscovered until the 1970s....
7.9
77 votes
7.9
77 votes
Videograms of a Revolution
1992 · Documentary · 106 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki · Andrei Ujica
7.9
229 votes
7.9
229 votes
Workers Leaving the Factory
1995 · Documentary · 40 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Harun Farocki
7.4
158 votes
7.4
158 votes
7.3
50 votes
7.3
67 votes
As You See (TV)
1986 · Documentary · 72 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
7.2
46 votes
7.2
46 votes
Respite
2007 · Documentary · 40 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Plot Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after the occupation of Holland, its function was...
7.2
46 votes
7.2
46 votes
The Inextinguishable Fire (S)
1969 · Movie · 25 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Gerd Volker Bussäus · Harun Farocki · Caroline Gremm · Hanspeter Krüger
7.1
223 votes
7.1
223 votes
By Comparison
2009 · Documentary · 61 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Plot Bricks are manufacured in Africa, India and Europe and used to erect clinics, children’s homes, schools and residential buildings. Harun Farocki observed the different steps of the manufacturing process. Bricks...
7.0
42 votes
7.0
42 votes
Still Life
1997 · Documentary · 58 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Kaja Silverman
6.9
71 votes
6.9
71 votes
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
2013 · Documentary · 73 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Matthias Sauerbruch · Louisa Hutton
Plot Harun Farocki’s last film before his untimely death this year is a compelling and often humorous study of an architectural firm in Berlin, following partners Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton....
5.6
24 votes
5.6
24 votes
The Words of the Chairman (S)
1969 · Documentary · 3 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
Cast Ursula Lefkes · Otto Schily
5.2
68 votes
5.2
68 votes
Parallel I–IV
2014 · Documentary · 43 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Plot What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up this question tracing how video games...
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Der Wahlhelfer (S)
1967 · Documentary · 14 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
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A Way (S)
2005 · Documentary · 14 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Plot "War always finds a way" (Brecht). If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is the ultimate...
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White Christmas (S)
1968 · Documentary · 3 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
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The Creators of Shopping Worlds (TV)
2001 · Documentary · 75 min. · Germany
Direction Harun Farocki
Plot A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.
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Die rote Fahne (S)
1968 · Documentary · 12 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Carlos Bustamante · Gerd Conradt · Harun Farocki · Holger Meins
Cast Thomas Giefer · Thomas Mitscherlich · Rüdiger Minow · Kai Ehlers
Plot A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people...
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Ein Bild von Sarah Schumann
1978 · Documentary · 30 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harun Farocki
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