Everyone knows Columbus, but no one knows Vespucci. Nevertheless, Vespucci’s first name “Amerigo” became the name sponsor for the America discovered in 1492. How did it come about? And who was this hardly known Italian? A swindler, as was often claimed later?…
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Imposters appear as gentlemen amongst criminals. Their scams are always audacious, normally genius and often simply unbelievable. Unbelievable, but true. Why do we always fall for the fraudster’s tricks? By means of the coups of the third exceptional conman the film illuminates…
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April 6th 1768 – French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville reaches Tahiti. An encounter, which will change the Island and Europe forever. It is the first French world journey and the first scientific focused maritime expedition for information. A young female botanist…
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3rd of January 2021, 16:45 – ARTE Vivaldi’s music has fantasy, emotion and temperament – Italian grandeur. Today the venetian composer is known around the world, his music is played in lifts, performed on opera stages, adapted into techno and rock music,…
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The last witness of Native American civilization was a Prince from Prussia. A feat that not even Alexander von Humboldt had achieved was accomplished by the Prussian Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied: in 1815, he ventured on an expedition along the Eastern coast of Brasil….
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Death in Tierra del Fuego the forgotten aviation pioneer Gunther Plüschow In the First World War “The aviator of Tsingtao“ is the one-man air force of the German emperor in China. He is the only prisoner who ever succeed in escaping from…
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Terra X: Prince Pückler – Playboy, Pasha, Parkomaniac ZDF Sunday, 26th juli 2015, 19.30 Every German knows the Pückler ice cream but who was its creator? “Terra X” discovers one of the most eccentric aristocrat in 19th century Prussia: Prince Hermann von…
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Our latest docu-drama will be aired on 1st of March 2015 at 17:35 on ARTE. „Prince Pückler – Playboy, Pasha, Parkomaniac” offers insight into the eccentric life of the famous park designer, dandy and world traveler. A film by Eike Schmitz and…
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Our film „ CHAO LEH – Punknomads“ is finished, and we have the first festival confirmations. “Chao Leh” is a song of the bavarian Punkband „Speichelbroiss“. It is a hit – but only in Asia. This is a film about the everyday…
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“Holtz – Conversations About Nothing“, a film by Thomas Knauf. An intimate portrait of the actor Jürgen Holtz with charm, humor and some bitterness.
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Our sets are the real places of Pückler’s life: The parks and castles of Muskau, Branitz, and Arenenberg, English manors and Osman palaces. Prince Pückler – Playboy, Pasha, Parkomaniac Foto: Michael Helbig
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Pückler’s end is our beginning. 126 years after his death we recreate his last performance. And even the weather sticks to the historical sources. Prince Pückler – Playboy, Pasha, Parkomaniac
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He is the epitome of the seducer. His memoirs became part of world literature. But who was this man called Casanova? This film is a portrait of the man behind the myth. Casanova – the man behind the myth. Premiere: ZDF Sunday,…
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The film „Luise Kimme – I always wanted to sculpt Apollo” is selected for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2012. Screenings the 26th, 27th and 30th of September 2012. For more details on the Festival: www.ttfilmfestival.com/film-synopsis/luise-kimme A portrait of the German…
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He’s the most famous author in the world, but did he really write the works transmitted under his name? Scholars have long tried to explain Shakespeare’s surprising success: after all, he had no university degree, no influential contacts and apparently owned not…
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913), was one of the greatest natural history explorers of the 19th century. He was a passionate researcher, an unconventional thinker and an activist for social justice and environmental protection. Although he died a hundred years ago…
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1.000 years are shown in 7 portraits adventurous, traveling through the history of the Arabian peninsula from 900 till today. An expedition into the Arabic identity.
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