Discover our filmography
Our feature film debut “The Serbian Girl”, and all our further films showcased at festivals worldwide, including Locarno, Sundance, TIFF Toronto, San Sebastian, Berlin, San Francisco, and more, winning international awards at venues such as the silver Leopard in Locarno or national awards such as “Best Director”, “Best Leading Actor” for “Love the Hard Way” with Adrian Brody and August Diehl or “Best director” for “Marie Curie, the courage of knowledge”.
Vogeler
2022 – 90 min
Germany, France
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Main cast: Anna Maria Mühe, Alice Dwyer, Florian Lukas, Samuel Finzi, Johann Von Bülow, Naomi Achternbusch.
Summary of the film Vogeler
The art of Heinrich Vogeler made him the darling of the bourgeoisie in the early years of the 20th century, his war experience later turned him into a dissident, his political stance ultimately made him an artist in exile – Heinrich Vogeler’s life story is a radical search for meaning in times of great upheaval. It raises universal questions about the understanding and responsibility of art, which are discussed in interviews with contemporary artists and cultural practitioners and build a bridge to the 21st century and the concept of art today.
Marie Curie
2015/2016 – 95 min
Best Direction
Germany, Poland
French screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
German version: Marie Noëlle and Andrea Stoll
Main cast: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling, Izabel Kuna, Malik Zidi.
Summary of the film Marie Curie
Left alone with two young daughters after the accidental death of her beloved husband Pierre Curie, Marie Curie faces her duties with greatest courage as a mother and a genius scientist in a time where science is primarily a man’s world. Marie’s audacity is not well seen by everybody. As she embarks on a passionate affair with the mathematician Paul Langevin, she provokes a huge scandal and the tabloids drag her name through the mud. Alarmed by all the malevolent headlines, the Swedish Nobel Academy, who wants to award her a second Nobel Prize (making her the first person ever to receive two), forbids her to drive to Stockholm to fetch her award.
Ludwig II
2013 – 137 min
Best Young actor
Germany, Austria, France
French screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr
Main cast: Sabin Tambrea, Sebastian Schipper, Tom Schilling, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Axel Milberg.
Summary of the film Ludwig II
Ludwig is a young art-loving king who hates the military. He promotes the revolutionary music of Richard Wagner, builds magnificent castles and hopes for a peaceful world. All this is a thorn in the side of his ministers, who rebel and declare him mentally ill. As the melancholic and lonely king is locked up in the Castle of Bergen against his will, he decides to end his life and finds peace in Lake Starnberg.
With visually stunning sequences shot at the original historical locations and enabled by a superb cast around cinema-debutant Sabin Tambrea, the directors tell the dramatic life of a Monarch with a dream far ahead of his time with sensitivity and create authenticity and closeness to a mystical, magnificent, visionary and yet fragile man.
Love the hard way
2000 – 99 min
Best Direction
Germany, USA
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr
Main cast: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, August Diehl, Jon Seda, Pam Grier, Liza Jessie Peterson.
Summary of the film Love The Hard Way
Claire, a brilliant graduate student, is searching for the answers to life’s questions in the quiet logic of her biology laboratory until one day at a local cinema, she meets a mysterious young man and petty thief who brings the innocent young woman into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.
Writer-directors Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr display obvious directing talent, especially in their use of nonlinear love scenes, showing the coupling, the approach and release all at once, out of order, mixing the entire seduction ritual into one fluid montage.
Dürer
2021 – 90 min
Germany
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Main cast: Wanja Mues, Hannah Herzsprung, Felix Kammerer, Nellie Thalbach, Sascha Geršak, Anika Mauer, Gedeon Burkhard.
Summary of the film Moi, Albrecht Dürer
He was a pop star of his time: Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. An obsessive, hedonist, visionary, networker and self-promoter, an eternal doubter and admonisher, a lover and seeker, in short: a modern man far ahead of his time. In a sensitive mixture of fiction and documentary, this film with a top-class cast tells the stories behind the famous works.
Die Frau des Anarchisten
2008 – 122 min
Germany, Spain, France
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Main cast: Maria Valverde, Juan Diego Botto, Ivana Baquero, Nina Hoss, Laura Morante, Jean-Marc Barr, Irène Montalà.
Summary of the film Die Frau des Anarchisten
The Anarchist’s Wife” tells the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a oncentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Birkenau und Rosenfeld
2002 – 90 min
Germany, France, Poland
Screenplay and direction: Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Main cast: Anouk Aimée, August Diehl, Marilu Marini, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Elise Otzenberger.
Summary of the film Birkenau und Rosenfeld
Myriam has survived Auschwitz. Years later, she returns to the place of horror and is overwhelmed by the emotions and memories she had suppressed for so long. Then she meets the German photographer Oskar. Together they try to make the invisible visible.
It took director and screenwriter Marceline Loridan Ivens 40 years to make this film based on her own memoirs, which is also the first ever to be filmed in the Birkenau concentration camp. Deported to Birkenau in 1943 , she returned to France after liberation, meets 1963 the famous documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens, marries him and becomes his closest collaborator.
U-Store it, U-Lock it, U-keep the key
2000 – 60 min
Germany, France
Camera, screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Documentary
Summary of U-Store it, U-Lock it, U-keep the key
What happens if two Europeans want to shoot a movie in New York? Adrien Brody leads us through this adventure and unveils for us his own way of working.
Komm doch an den Tisch
1998 – 45 min
Germany
Camera, screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Documentary
Summary of the documentary Komm doch an den Tisch
A documentary for the Arte Program „Themenabend”. The film follows the German radical artist and pioneer of knowledge Herbert Achternbusch as he paints on the 27th of June 1997 between 9.46 Uhr and 22.58 a huge Fresco without a pause.
Obsession/Berlin Niagara
1997 – 104 min
Germany, France
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr
Main cast: Daniel Craig, Charles Berling, Heike Makatsch, Seymour Cassel.
Summary of the film Obsession
A summer in Berlin today, a theft, an heart attack – and three lovers. Miriam (Heike Makatsch) is a talented young musician who plays trumpet in the women’s band “Berlin United” and loves Pierre (Charles Berlin) but is also irresistibly attracted to John (Daniel Craig in his cinema debut). A tale of two passions.
I tell myself a man
1995 – 78 min
Filmfestival
Germany
Camera, screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle
Main cast: Bruno Ganz, Laura Morante, André Eisermann, Gedeon Burkhard.
Summary of the film I tell myself a man
8 men’s monologues to try and answer the question: Are women the better men?
Kaspar Hauser
1993 – 134 min
Best Film
Best Actor
Germany
Screenplay and direction: Peter Sehr
Main cast: André Eisermann, Katarina Thalbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Udo Samel.
Summary of the film Kaspar Hauser
In May 1828, a boy aged around 16 appears on the market place of Nuremberg unable to speak properly. He holds a letter in his hand but knows nothing about his origins or family. The film takes on the difficult riddles of Hauser’s origins and upbringing a in a most humane and insightful way and depicts the game of power and the intrigues in the high circles of the aristocratic society of the time that leads to the death of Kaspar five years after his liberation.
The serbian girl
1991 – 90 min
Best 1st Film
Germany
Screenplay and direction: Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr
Main cast: Mirjarra Jokovic, Ben Becker, Pascal Breuer, Vladimir Torbica, Joachim Regelien.
Summary of the film The serbian girl
Dobrila, a high-spirited but naive young woman has fallen in love with Achim, a vacationing German from Hamburg. As she discovers that she is pregnant she leaves her little Serbian village to travel to him. The trip is not easy, and when she finally gets there, she realizes that he isn’t interested in a relationship and doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant. She heads back home to Serbia, which is an even more exhausting trek.
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