Volker Koepp Movies

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the...

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

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

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent...

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town...

Volker Koepp returns to the Brandenburg Marches, where many of his films were made. Uckermark describes the coexistence of the various eras using the...

Czernowitz, 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...

Portrait of 80 year old Gustav J., born in Lithuania, who became a blacksmith and whose paths of life led him to East Prussia, Russia and finally to...

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

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

Sixth Wittstock film.

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

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's second Wittstock film.

In his documentary film, Volker Koepp portrays the picturesque Polish region of Pomerania. But although the region appears to be idyllic, its...

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