Elfi Mikesch Movies

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred...

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.

Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors.

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining...

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught...

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...

On her 40th birthday, director Heide Breitel interviewed female friends of the same age about their experiences. All of them—born in 1941, the...

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Portrait made for the 70th birthday of Rosa von Praunheim by his close collaborator.