Raphaela Film

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?

Documentary about the director Budd Boetticher.

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.

Documentary about the Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

Documentary about the American actor Rod Steiger.

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their perspectives.

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Harold Nebenzal talks about his career.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be...

Six young men are disturbed by their girlfriends while looking for adventures in Munich after their discharge from the Bundeswehr.