Oliver Schmitz Movies

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18...

Mark Demski discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him and thinks it has happened because of his small penis. Sad, he dumps the girl and promises...

Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by...

A young Soweto actor joins a gang to study up and be more convincing in a gangster role he wants.

Katrin can only dream of a happy family. Because the patchwork constellation with several involuntarily connected families puts their nerves to the...

Bella is in a dilemma: She lives with her ex Martin and her new boyfriend Sebastian in a shared flat. Neither does she dare to pour Martin pure wine,...

A supermarket operator from Ahlbeck (Usedom) is found dead, naked, in the spa gardens of neighboring Swinemünde in Poland. Inspector Julia Thiel...

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.

A petty gangster inevitably becomes involved in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and is forced to choose between individual gain and a united...

70 years after the last wolves roamed the national park, a total of 41 wolves were reintroduced between 1995 and 1997. A globally unique experiment...

Klara Sonntag, probation officer, believes in the good in people. Everybody deserves a second chance. This is how she tackles her work. The judge...

A short history of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) from 1991

Directed by Oliver Schmitz, Brian Tilley.

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.