Andre HellerFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Conception, Director, Songwriter

  • Jessye Norman: A Portrait

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Jessye Norman

    Synopsis: This release intercuts candid interviews with the classical soprano Jessye Norman (in which she expostulates on her personal life and professional experiences) and performance footage of Norman interpreting selections by Schubert, Strauss, Mozart and Wagner. The performances are delivered and shot Read More

    2005

  • Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

    Crew: Conception, Director

    Actors: Traudl Junge

    Synopsis: Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary is a feature-length interview with 81-year-old Austrian Traudl Junge, who served as Hitler's personal secretary from 1942 to 1945, when she was in her early twenties. She saw Hitler in his everyday life, right up until his final days, and she witnessed, firsthand Read More

    1/24/03

  • Driving Me Crazy

    Actors: Andre Heller

    Synopsis: This humorous documentary is as much about itself and how it got made as it is about its ostensible subject, the mounting of Andre Heller's stage musical Body and Soul in Berlin. The musical is to feature black performers and U.S. black culture. The documentary is to be another Fame, and is just Read More

    1988

  • Das Gold er Liebe

    Actors: Marie Colbin, Andre Heller

    Synopsis: Director Eckhart Schmidt has created another blood-and-guts, pop-music film about a teen fan who travels to Vienna to catch her favorite rock group and becomes involved in a sanguinary series of events that begins with a ritual killing. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

    1983

  • Sei Zaertlich, Penguin

    Actors: Marie Colbin, Heinz Hoenig, Petra Jokisch, Rainer Hunold

    Synopsis: This run-of-the-mill sex comedy is about a gym instructor whose prowess in the gym is better than in the bedroom. His maladroit efforts to please the woman he loves provide the comic fodder that propels this first-time feature-length effort by director Peter Hajek. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Read More

    1983

  • Spring Symphony

    Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rolf Hoppe

    Synopsis: Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that fascinates filmmakers, it is a strong enough fascination to prompt a retelling of the Schumanns' lives every few years. First, there was the 1947 Katharine Hepburn/Paul Henreid film vehicle Song of Read More

    1983

  • Doktor Faustus

    Actors: Jon Finch, Hanns Zischler, Marie-Helene Breillat, Andre Heller

    Synopsis: Doktor Faustus was adapted from Thomas Mann's epic novel of the same name about a composer, Adrian Leverkuehn (Jon Finch), who sells his soul to the devil for the acquisition of genius in his lifetime. Leverkuehn intentionally contracts syphilis from an infected prostitute because he believes that Read More

    1982

  • Fuerchete Dich Nicht, Jacob!

    Actors: Andre Heller, Pedro Efe

    Synopsis: Lejba, a Jewish innkeeper (Andre Heller) in Portugal at the beginning of the 20th century, is worried about his pregnant wife (Aviva Gaire) and their future. Holy Week is near, but it is overshadowed by the menacing arrival of Georg (Pedro Efe) who has vowed to kill Lejba in revenge for a past Read More

    1981

  • Geschichten Aus Dem Wiener Wald

    Actors: Birgit Doll, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden, Adrienne Gessner

    Synopsis: Marianne (Birgit Doll) is driven from her father's home when she is impregnated by Alfred (Hanno Poeschi), a vagabond loafer who abandons her after he has his fun. She goes to Vienna and takes a job in a strip club to provide for herself and her baby. Her father discovers his daughter's tawdry Read More

    1979

  • Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland

    Synopsis: This seven-hour long epic completes the "German Trilogy" of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, which began with his meditation on the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria and continued with a biography of popular writer Karl May. In this film, he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then Read More

    1977

  • The Odessa File

    Crew: Songwriter

    Actors: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi

    Synopsis: The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS Read More

    1974

  • Karl May

    Actors: Kristina Soderbaum

    Synopsis: Karl May chronicles the life of the extremely popular 19th-century German novelist who lived from 1842 to 1912. Karl May's copious output included dozens of adventure novels set in the American Wild West; they are distinguished by their sympathetic portrayal of Native Americans, and many feature Read More

    1974

  • Das Weite Land

    1970

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