Ruth Beckermann Movies
- 2018
The Waldheim Waltz
The Waldheim Waltz7.72018HD
Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of...
- 2022
Mutzenbacher
Mutzenbacher6.22022HD
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...
- 2016
The Dreamed Ones
The Dreamed Ones8.152016HD
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...
- 2024
Favoriten
Favoriten02024HD
Favoriten is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Vienna and the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s latest documentary, in...
- 1999
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient5.81999HD
Images of Egypt: prolonged tracking shots through the streets of Cairo, cafes, bazars, hotels and gardens, footage of the desert and the sea. Ruth...
- 1983
Return to Vienna
Return to Vienna6.61983HD
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...
- 2006
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah5.52006HD
Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
- 1987
The Paper Bridge
The Paper Bridge7.31987HD
Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the...
- 2013
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
Those Who Go Those Who Stay5.52013HD
Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innumerable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance...
- 2020
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years5.22020HD
This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film...
- 2011
American Passages
American Passages6.22011HD
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...
- 1981
The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass
The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass01981HD
On March 28th 1981, 10.000 people take to the streets. The city of Judenburg demonstrates for the preservation of their steel plant. The...
- 1991
Toward Jerusalem
Toward Jerusalem61991HD
In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis and Arabs as she travels...
- 2006
The Mozart Minute
The Mozart Minute52006HD
Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart....
- 1996
East of War
East of War6.81996HD
White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the...
- 1977
Arena Squatted
Arena Squatted5.51977HD
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...
- 2001
Homemad(e)
Homemad(e)6.22001HD
Marc Aurel-Straße in Vienna: The last surviving Jewish textile merchant in the former textile district, the Iranian hotel proprietor and the...
- 2023
Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23
Strade perdute - Filmmaker 2302023HD
For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Beckermann, J. Bressane, D’Anolfi/Parenti, T....
- 2012
Jackson/Marker 4am
Jackson/Marker 4am02012HD
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.
- 1978
Suddenly, A Strike
Suddenly, A Strike01978HD
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...