Screenplay: Harun Farocki

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harun Farocki. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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

War at a Distance

2003 · Documentary · 54 min. · Germany

Direction Harun Farocki

7.3

50 votes

7.3

50 votes

Gefängnisbilder

2003 · Documentary · 60 min. · Germany

Direction Harun Farocki

7.3

67 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)

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

The State I Am In

2000 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Julia Hummer · Barbara Auer · Richy Müller · Bilge Bingul

Plot Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists, who are chased by the police since almost fifteen years. The puberty of her increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne imposes a threat on their security,...

6.7

207 votes

6.7

207 votes

Gespenster (Ghosts)

2005 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Julia Hummer · Sabine Timoteo · Marianne Basler · Aurélien Recoing

Plot Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts...

6.4

193 votes

6.4

193 votes

Barbara

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Ronald Zehrfeld · Rainer Bock · Jasna Fritzi Bauer

Plot East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1980. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Phoenix

2014 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Ronald Zehrfeld · Uwe Preuss · Nina Kunzendorf

Plot A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany. Nelly Lenz, a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K 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)

5.2

68 votes

5.2

68 votes

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...

Not rated

Not rated

White Christmas (S)

1968 · Documentary · 3 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harun Farocki

Not rated

Not rated