Raphaela Film

Paintings and poetry about the end of it all.

Drama by Eckhart Schmidt.

Documentary about the director Budd Boetticher.

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.

Documentary about American gangster movies.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Documentary about the American actress Jane Russell.

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped too beautifully, an investigation that was cut short, evidence that disappeared. Plus Marilyn's affairs with the then US President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. What really happened on that fateful summer night? After her housekeeper discovers the body, six hours pass before the police are called. She finds a beautifully draped corpse, sleeping pills in the blood but no pill residue in the stomach, witnesses who seem uncertain. The first investigator thinks about murder - and is taken off the case. Today no police files can be found.

First part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.

Documentary about Hollywood.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Inspired by the famous woodblock print of Hokusai "Tako to ama", where two octopuses sleep with a girl. This kind of sensual terror is also a fatal attraction.

About girls who live out their fantasies.

Three stories about life and death.

Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.