Elfi Mikesch Movies
- 1992
Female Misbehavior
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From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...
- 1984
Horror Vacui
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Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...
- 2015
Tough Love
Tough Love6.22015HD
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
- 2014
Fever
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It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her...
- 2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
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Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...
- 1989
Annie
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The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.
- 2024
Krieg oder Frieden
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Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army. At the...
- 1979
Execution: A Story of Mary
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This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...
- 2001
Warrior of Light
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A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for...
- 1997
Daily Chicken
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Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.
- 1988
Anita – Dances of Vice
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In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug...
- 1999
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities6.81999HD
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine,...
- 1998
Life, Love & Celluloid
Life, Love & Celluloid5.81998HD
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- 2007
Six Dead Students
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Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught...
- 1981
Zechmeister
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The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband. There was no evidence...
- 1989
Marocain
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A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's...
- 1986
A Virus Knows No Morals
A Virus Knows No Morals4.51986HD
Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...
- 2017
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
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About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every...
- 1983
Bondage
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Bondage was made from, among other things, footage Monika Treut filmed in New York with women of the LSM(Lesbian Sex Mafia/ Lesbian Sado-Masochists)....
- 2001
Die Markus Family
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This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...