Jürgen Böttcher Movies

Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking...

Potter's Bull is the first part of the "Over-Paintings" Trilogy (Uebermalungen) by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher). Paulus...

Impressionistic East German documentary filmed mainly in the Georgian countryside in 1986-1987. The director, a painter, wanted to see if similar...

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the...

Summertime in Prerow at the Baltic Sea. A cheerful film with the spirit of the sixties.

Böttchers film showcases three young workers who learn how to paint, draw, and make sculptures out of stone. The film generated a storm of...

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with...

A young officer suffers under his ambitious wife, who is determined to make a captain out of him. Meanwhile, ship's cook Andresen becomes a father...

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Venus after Giorgione is the the second part of the "Over Paintings" (Uebermalungen) trilogy by painter and director STRAWALDE (Juergen Boettcher)....

Documentary accompanies the great DEFA film director and painter Jürgen Böttcher, alias Strawalde, detail through his biographical and...

With films including the 'rubble woman' portrait Martha, the three-part experimental film cycle Potter's Stier, Venus nach Giorgione and Frau am...

A young literature student Andreas Alt, works as a ghostwriter on the memoirs of a former, now elderly courtesan. Her granddaughter Josefine also...

Film report about the meeting of the youth organization of the GDR (FDJ = Freie Deutsche Jugend) with guests from 57 countries as well as the 8th...

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of...

In this interview with contemporary witnesses, painter and director Jürgen Böttcher talks about some stages of his professional career....

History and art in Berlin's new center. Like a fossil, the Marx-Engels-Forum, a large, ambitious monument project of the GDR, adorns a central...

This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the "stars" of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the...