Volker Koepp Movies

Chernivtsi, an out-of-the-way city in the middle of Europe. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as the capital of the crown province of...

A documentary about young people just starting their higher education and their professional life.

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a...

In the west of Ukraine, not far from the border to Romania, there is a faraway European city: Chernivtsi. It was once the centre of Jewish culture in...

A group of men shoot their mouths off in a pub. Their animated talk is all action-packed yarns and, of course, about women.

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his...

Agricultural scientist and mother Isolde struggles with the dicrepancies between her personal convictions and the political realities in East...

The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside...

Volker Koepp revisits locations and people from his earlier documentaries in the wide Eastern European region of Sarmatia.

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of...

The "Curonian Spit" is a 98 kilometre long sand dune peninsula that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The width of the spit between...

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany.

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

Social, cultural, and historical changes in a village, the first film of Koepp's “landscape” series.

Documentary about the region next to the river Memel.

Volker Koepp's video essay honoring the German poet Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965).