Robert van Ackeren Movies

Fearing being deported, Gabi, a young foreign girl looks for a husband and even has 5,000 German Marks for him. But within the free and marital...

In a german suburb a babysitter is too busy with her own teenage business and leaves a boy with his little sister alone. Then the girl is missing....

"Deutschland privat" is a special project by Robert van Ackeren, who in 1979 asked people to send him their 8mm home movies by placing ads in several...

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation...

Portrait of German filmmaker Robert van Ackeren, shot in Locarno (Switzerland) on August 8, 1980 at 12:39 PM.

The film presents dazzling, creative, and surprisingly diverse "home theater" from five decades. And especially on the basis of the sometimes...

Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a...