Vlado Kristl Movies

"Don Kihot" is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

Postmodernism also has to be seen as a system, one that is acknowledged, one with which one can create houses, locomotives, films, everything... That...

Zagreb-born artist Vlado Kristl (1923-2004) was the most radical of the German auteur filmmakers. This is an anakofilm.

Kristl plays a prisoner who can smile only when he sees The General.

Kristl was a member of the prestigious Zagreb Studio of Animation and his early works as painter and filmmaker had brought him instant acclaim and...

Delegations of the homeless from all over the world march in. This is a film in which there is nothing to see. - Vlado Kristl

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.

"I shot this film, Italian Capriccio, as if it were my last. Now I see I had nothing to offer to anybody. No thought, no suggestion, nounderstanding....

T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire...

A medium-length film by Vlado Kristl.

In The Dam, although it is an experimental film, Kristl eschews the necessary earnestness in addressing his subject. The manufactured, unambiguously...

Confusion results when a young man walking through a park joins in a game of tennis.

Allegory of a man who leads the people to destruction and then is reborn to recommence the cycle.

A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as Kristl...

Short film about car racing.

Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous "Shagreen...

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

The Academy of Arts in Hamburg destroys all art and all artists. It seems as if a military unit has lined up for the final solution, it looks as if...

Cartoon showing the "Utopes" - talented, unconventional, double-faced creatures. They are split by a uniformed man with a sabre - individually forced...