Raphaela Film

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 Italian cinema.

Documentary about American gangster movies.

Documentary about the American architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

Hollywood would be nothing without them: without the stars, who combine a lot of light and shadow, who act as rebels not only in front of but also behind the camera.

Documentary about Hollywood.

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.

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 Wu-Tang Clan.

About girls who live out their fantasies.

A writer's fantasy goes erotic ways in Rome.

A variation of 'Der Fan'.

The daughter of a gangster tries to seduce her driver.

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Hans Werner Henze's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg".

Paintings and poetry about the end of it all.

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

A selfie-film.

Starting out as e-mail pen pals, Daniel and Laura soon fall in love. Only problem is that she lives in Germany and he lives in Los Angeles. When they finally arrange to meet in person, they discover that there is no chemistry between them.

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...