Movies: Michael Klier

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulti...

Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films...

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision....

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank....

An ill man’s dying wish reunites four old friends....

Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister's final weekend at the house where...

A man migrates from Poland over Germany into the US....

A feature-length film composed entirely of security camera footage....

Manfred drives a Jaguar around Berlin and chats up women. Manfred is car crazy. He covers 100 to 200 kilometres a day and James Dean adorns his wall at home. He’s owned an MG, a Triumph, an Alfa Romeo and a Porsche. Now he dreams of a Ferrari. Shot o...

Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son′s bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the you...

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Short film by Michael Klier....

After a climate protest, Alice has to do social service and therefore cares for Cam, an older turkish woman, who is the victim of an racist assault.......

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened....

One of three short films about the German town of Dreden Michael Klier directed for the german-french TV channel ARTE....

Michael Klier documents some ideas about Dresden while shooting three short films for the TV channel ARTE....

One of three short films about the German town of Dreden Michael Klier directed for the german-french TV channel ARTE....

Documentary short about movie castings in Germany....

One of three short films about the German town of Dreden Michael Klier directed for the german-french TV channel ARTE....

Short Film by Michael Klier for a series of shorts for the German TV Station SFB....