Gisela Tuchtenhagen Movies

A cinematic portrait of Maria, a 13-year-old girl who has been living in Hamburg, Germany, with her family from Spain for several years. The...

Two women, a mother and her daughter, one of whom immigrated to Germany from Turkey and the other grew up in Germany, describe life between two...

How do people look back on a life that was torn from their hands by arbitrariness, secret police, and the justice system? Gisela Tuchtenhagen and...

Iris is an Elvis fan and part of a group of unemployed women who, in the scope of the first West German retraining program for women, are being...

A traditional men's festival called "Hahnbeer," which has been celebrated every year since 1841 at the end of February.

The film focuses on a group of people with various disabilities who are helped by the Hamburg-based association “Insel” to lead largely...

A documentary about playing bingo in rural northern Germany.

First part of Gisela Tuchtenhagen's Heimkinder film series.

Greta is born lifeless and dies. Four years later, her midwife stands trial for manslaughter. The verdict: guilty. Ban from practicing her...

A documentary film about the rural Low German-speaking population.

The autobiographical documentary is about the existence, birth and farewell of my son Martin Tim, about personal questions and developments after the...

The film tells the story of the Hansa Theater in Hamburg, Germany's oldest variety theater, interweaving it with observations from the last season in...