Movies: Ruth Beckermann

  • 2022
    Mutzenbacher

    Mutzenbacher (2022)

    Mutzenbacher

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    An audition for men aged between 16 and 99. There are no props nor make-up, just pure improvisation. All that is required is the willingness to engage openly with the topic and language of the words on the page. No small challenge, since the text in ...

    Mutzenbacher
  • 2024
    Favoriten

    Favoriten (2024)

    Favoriten

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    Favoriten is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Vienna and the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s latest documentary, in which she accompanies a class of pupils from the age of seven to ten. Their ambitious teacher, Ilkay, is determ...

    Favoriten
  • 2016
    The Dreamed Ones

    The Dreamed Ones (2016)

    The Dreamed Ones

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    It’s not uncommon for a film to have a moving love story at its core. Yet this particular set-up is unusual. The lovers here are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, both important representatives of post-war German-language poetry. The story of the rel...

    The Dreamed Ones
  • 2013
    Those Who Go Those Who Stay

    Those Who Go Those Who Stay (2013)

    Those Who Go Those Who Stay

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    Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories - leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. ...

    Those Who Go Those Who Stay
  • 2020
    Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

    Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020)

    Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years

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    This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as we...

    Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
  • 2018
    The Waldheim Waltz

    The Waldheim Waltz (2018)

    The Waldheim Waltz

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    Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign, the denial by the A...

    The Waldheim Waltz
  • 1987
    The Paper Bridge

    The Paper Bridge (1987)

    The Paper Bridge

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    Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories....

    The Paper Bridge
  • 1996
    East of War

    East of War (1996)

    East of War

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    White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bound...

    East of War
  • 1981
    The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass

    The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass (1981)

    The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass

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    On March 28th 1981, 10.000 people take to the streets. The city of Judenburg demonstrates for the preservation of their steel plant. The demonstration is a start, a late attempt to avert the threat of job loss. The film shows how the international st...

    The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass
  • 2006
    Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah

    Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah (2006)

    Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah

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    Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot....

    Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
  • 1999
    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient (1999)

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

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    Images of Egypt: prolonged tracking shots through the streets of Cairo, cafes, bazars, hotels and gardens, footage of the desert and the sea. Ruth Beckermann is on the trail of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sissi"), who travelled the world restlessl...

    A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
  • 1991
    Toward Jerusalem

    Toward Jerusalem (1991)

    Toward Jerusalem

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    In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis and Arabs as she travels along the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem....

    Toward Jerusalem
  • 1983
    Return to Vienna

    Return to Vienna (1983)

    Return to Vienna

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    Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker’s movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of Austro-fascism and National Socialism. West’s masterly ...

    Return to Vienna
  • 2023
    Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23

    Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23 (2023)

    Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23

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    For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Beckermann, J. Bressane, D’Anolfi/Parenti, T. De Bernardi, L. Di Costanzo, A. Fasulo, F. Ferraro, M. Frammartino, S. George, ghezzi/Gagliardo, C. Hinter...

    Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23
  • 1977
    Arena Squatted

    Arena Squatted (1977)

    Arena Squatted

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    Based on material that emerged during the occupation of the arena in the summer of 1976, the film shows the organization of collective work, the negotiations with the city and community and finally the demolition of the buildings....

    Arena Squatted
  • 2011
    American Passages

    American Passages (2011)

    American Passages

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    Initially, there's that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem cheers "We're free!" as if Barack Obama's victory meant the ultimate end of slavery. AMERICAN PASSAGES is an associative journey through the United States: a disil...

    American Passages
  • 2006
    The Mozart Minute

    The Mozart Minute (2006)

    The Mozart Minute

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    Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range o...

    The Mozart Minute
  • 2001
    Homemad(e)

    Homemad(e) (2001)

    Homemad(e)

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    Marc Aurel-Straße in Vienna: The last surviving Jewish textile merchant in the former textile district, the Iranian hotel proprietor and the Café Salzgries and its regulars. Between the summer of 1999 and spring 2000, Ruth Beckermann undertook a ser...

    Homemad(e)
  • 2012
    Jackson/Marker 4am

    Jackson/Marker 4am (2012)

    Jackson/Marker 4am

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    Introduced with a quote that invents its own creator, someone is dancing in a figure skating costume to a piece of music that conceals its source....

    Jackson/Marker 4am
  • 1978
    Suddenly, A Strike

    Suddenly, A Strike (1978)

    Suddenly, A Strike

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    In the Semperit tyre factory, the only strike after World War II takes place in May 1978, lasting for three weeks. The film shows the course of the strike in interviews, photos, graphics and talks at a pub; it draws attention to the position of the u...

    Suddenly, A Strike