Peter Kern Movies

A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.

When 82-year-old Mary takes her 63-year-old disabled son on a houseboat vacation on Lake Lychen in Brandenburg, things quickly go south as the boat...

Vienna in 2021. Europe is divided into American sectors. The currency is being converted from the euro to the dollar. Johnny Bush (the son of...

In the Philippine jungle, on the river of the same name, lies the small town of Pagsanjan, about 100 km from the capital Manila. Here, boatmen...

Vienna's high society parties with sex, drugs, alcohol and young models. Hanna von Stezewitz stands in the center of it all. She's young, attractive...

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

One of the most caustic and personal essay films ever made, Werner Schroeter's account of the 1983 Manila Film Festival, presided over by Imelda...

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

The shy Michael Seebisch wants to work even more in the new year. His great love is for computers. Only the enamel of great opera voices can...

Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal,...

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

Cunning Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison with a trick. Kasperl and Seppl immediately set off to recapture the escaped...

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.

Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favour of a controversial new project. But things...

Portrait of director Ishmael Bernal.

Peter Kern developed his film from a critic's remark, "Please stop making films." When his alter ego, Peter Gläubiger, meets a critic he unloads...

Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical...

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....