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My movie story
Documentaries
My documentary films have taken me to the most diverse places in the world and I have come into contact with topics that have had a lasting impact on me as well as the people I have been able to get to know. Whether shooting for one or several weeks, every film project has enriched and inspired me enormously.
All films listed here are in German, but productions in another language are also possible with us.
Displacement
Around 11,500 people were forcibly resettled or forcibly expelled from the immediate border area with West Germany to the interior of the GDR. Together with filmmaker Peter Grimm and regional historian Bruno Leister, I set out in search of clues. In our film we portray, among other things, the fate of the Fink family from Kranlucken, who resisted joining the LPG.
Written & directed by Peter Grimm
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2016, documentary, 50 minutes
Standing upright
For Herbert Belter, Ernst Bloch, Werner Ihmels, Hans Mayer, Wolfgang Natonek, Siegfried Schmutzler - it is a painting by Leipzig painter Reinhard Minkewitz from 2015. It can be seen in the lecture hall building at Leipzig University.
Written & directed by Valerie Madoka Naito
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2016, documentary, 16 minutes
Revolutionary innovations
A Saxon industrial and family history. It describes the rise of the textile industry from 1820 and the decline of this industry at the end of the last century. This story is closely interwoven with the history of three families who were founders and very successful entrepreneurs. However, political entanglements also led to family suicides. Extensive original material tells an impressive story.
Written & directed by Barbara Böttger, cinematography by Eckart Reichl, edited by Dorothee Plass, music by Frieder Zimmermann, 2015, documentary, 97 minutes
The Großenhain cloth manufacturer Joachim Römer shoots his family and himself during the invasion of the Red Army in April 1945.
Written & directed by Barbara Böttger
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2015, documentary, 30 minutes
A film commissioned by the CSW about the inclusion of disabled people. What does inclusion really mean?
Written & directed by Peter Grimm, cinematographyby Eckart Reichl, 2015, documentary, 27 minutes
The special situation of Christian children's homes in the GDR.
Director: Peter Grimm
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, Editor: Andreas Arndt, 2014,
documentary, 45 minutes
Forest Brothers - The partisans from the Ile bunker
Latvian partisans fought against the Soviet occupation until the 1950s.
Written & directed by Peter Grimm
Cinematography& editing: Eckart Reichl
Music: Frieder Zimmermann
2013, documentary, 82 minutes
The spirit of the Maya
The Codex Dresdensis - one of 3 remaining maya manuscripts - is in the SLUB Dresden and will be returned to the Mayas as a facsimile. The film uses the codex to tell the story of how the Maya live in Guatemala today.
Written, directed and edited by Harald Schluttig
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl
Music: Karsten Gundermann
Co-production: Arne Art Affairs, weissraum, Atelier Reichl Film
production
Production management: Arne Nowak
2012, documentary, 81 minutes
Death never dies
Documentary film about the cemetery of honor in Dillingen/Saar.
Written & directed by Valérie Madoka Naito (naito.eu)
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2011, documentary, 11 minutes
Bangladesh - extra dry
Water Resources and Climate Change in Bangladesh (CIPSEM, UNEP).
Director: Peter Grimm
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2010, documentary, 30 minutes
Rischkanowka or the king of Bessarabien
In search of the president - Bessarabian biographies.
Written & directed by Peter Grimm
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
Music: Dominik Schiefner, Karina Bellmenn, Frieder
Zimmermann
2007, documentary, 85 minutes
Portrait of a community in Switzerland.
Director & editor: Eckart Reichl, 2009, portrait,
documentary, 30 minutes
At the Grassi Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig.
Director: Tamara Whyss, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2009,
documentary, 124 minutes
Director: Peter Förster, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2008, documentary, 90 minutes
The glass secret of the Blaschkas.
Director & editor: Eckart Reichl, 2006, portrait,
documentary, 30 minutes
3 biographies of indomitable people in the GDR.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2009,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
Childhood in a Soviet special camp.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2008,
documentary, 30 minutes
Pastor Taatz rocks the province.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2007,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
Condemned as asocial in the GDR.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2006,
documentary, 30 minutes
Diagnosis schizophrenia - 5 portraits of affected people.
Director: Norbert Göller, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2006,
documentary, 70 minutes
Training search dogs in Iran.
Director: Maike Böhm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2006,
documentary, 35 minutes
Encounters at a mass grave in Moscow.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2005,
documentary, 30 minutes
Journey to the old homeland.
Written & directed by Peter Grimm, cinematography &
editing by Eckart Reichl, co-production Grimm, Reichl 2005,
documentary, 51 minutes
Melanie Weber sold political prisoners from the former GDR to
West Germany.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2005,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
The three lives of Georg Dertinger.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2004,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
Rescue of persecuted Jews in Cottbus.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2004,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
Child labor under the specific conditions of Nepal.
Director: Volker Schmidt, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2003,
documentary, 30 minutes
Clinic boss Peter Nawka, a former patient himself, is the
initiator of psychiatric reform.
Director: Norbert Göller, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2003,
portrait, documentary, 45 minutes
Resocialization of killer elephants.
Director: Volker Schmidt, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2002,
documentary, 30 minutes
Life in a retirement community.
Director: Anne Ruby, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2002,
portrait, documentary, 60 minutes
Erwin Kowalke and the war dead.
Director: Peter Grimm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2002,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes
Teenagers with traumatic brain injury.
Director: Volker Schmidt, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2000,
portrait, documentary, 30 minutes (MDR, 3sat)
From the letters and diaries of Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto
Modersohn.
Director: Gabriele Gorgas, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 1998,
documentary, 20 minutes
Oskar Kokoschka's work in Dresden.
Director: Heidrun Sünderhauf, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl,
1996, documentary, 45 minutes
Documentaries
Films for foundations and social projects to raise donations
The documentary reports on the background to human trafficking and the situation of women and children in forced prostitution and shows authentic film sequences on the planning and execution of raids and the direct rescue of victims from the clutches of human traffickers. To protect the rescued girls in India, no film excerpts can be shown here.
Idea & writer: Harald Röder, Director & editor: Eckart Reichl, 2017, documentary, social film, 60 minutes
About sowing and harvesting
Harald Röder, the founder of the pro vita foundation, is accompanied in his search for suitable aid projects in Peru. The pro vita foundation helps young people in Peru with vocational training.
Director: Eckart Reichl 2013, documentary, social film, 35 minutes
Eyes of hope
Harald Röder, the founder of the pro vita foundation, is accompanied in his search for suitable aid projects in Nepal.
Director & editor: Eckart Reichl
2010, documentary, social film, 47 minutes
Ngoba likusasa ngelami - because tomorrow is mine
Help for AIDS orphans in Swaziland.
Director: Maike Böhm, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2006,
documentary, social film, 40 minutes (cinema)
Essays
Film essays are my secret love, they listen to rules other than the conventional dramaturgical and visual language rules and in this way unfold a magic all of their own.
Moving into the infinite
A dancer follows her unusual calling to dance for God. She explores what this means and invites you on a mystical journey to distant countries and cultures. She dances in consecrated and unconsecrated places and meets people of different origins, traditions and religions. It is dance that reveals to her an unexpected closeness.
Writer & director: Paramjyoti C.G. Stieber /Cinematography
& editing: Eckart Reichl
Music: Yaron Pe'er, Mark Eliyahu, Shahar Kaofman
2018, film essay, 122 minutes
Worth living for - Dresden moments
Paths of Happiness - a film essay about 5 people who found happiness in Dresden.
Written & directed by Peter Förster
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl
Editing: Thomas Bonke
Music: Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
2006, film essay, 105 minutes
Le Cercle
Images of the Chinese poem "The Lords"
Written & directed by Anne-Christine Loranger
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2013, film essay, 7 minutes
Observation of the residents in the Erlwein-Karree
Dresden-Altpieschen.
Director: Bernd Kilian, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2001,
documentary, film essay, 45 minutes
Portrait of a Venetian island.
Director: Gabriele Gorgas, Eckart Reichl, Cinematography:
Eckart Reichl, 2000, film essay, 42 minutes
Portraits
Portraying people and telling their stories, capturing their perspectives and thus conveying my empathy for them on film is my great passion.
As long as I dance, I live
Unimpressed by her 92 years, Lona Jacob continues her life dancing.
Written, directed and edited by Christin Rössler
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl,
2013, documentary, portrait, 45 minutes
Else Kalisch - The Bessarabian
Else Kalisch talks about her eventful life. A film that provides an insight into the history of the Bessarabian Germans.
Written & directed by Peter Grimm
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl
2005, portrait, 90 minutes
Portrait of the artist Alfred Hrdlicka.
Director: Heidrun Sünderhauf, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl,
1997, portrait, 45 minutes
Conversation on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
Director: Gabriele Gorgas, Eckart Reichl, Cinematography:
Eckart Reichl, 2000, portrait, 42 minutes
Memories of a Dresden painter.
Director & editor: Eckart Reichl, 2005, portrait, 38
minutes
Dance movies
I dance along as a cinematographer and thus become part of this dance group.
Mandala
A dance-film project, a growing dance community and the manifestation of a place dedicated to sacred dance. (infinite.dance)
Idea & director: Paramjyoti C.G. Stieber
Cinematographer & editor: Eckart Reichl (BVK)
2023, dance film, 7 minutes
The dance within me
A portrait film in which 5 young people from Berlin find their passion and a special approach to themselves in dance.
Written, directed and edited by Christin Rössler
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl
2014, dance film, 45 minutes
Architecture and dance.
Director: Yvonne Bahn, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl, 2004,
dance film, 15 minutes (co-production)
Dance of the miners of Andalusia and the passion of the dancer
Adela Rabin.
Director: Christin Rössler, Picture: Eckart Reichl, 2003,
portrait, dance film, 20 minutes (co-production)
Choreography of an outburst.
Director: Christin Rössler, Cinematography: Eckart Reichl,
1999, dance film, 9 minutes (co-production)
Music films
My rhythm as an image creator and the rhythm of the music come together in my music films.
The journey of the water
Idea & director: Duo Flying Tree
Cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl (BVK)
All music composed by Duo Flying Tree, CD: Im Flug der Schwalbe
die Freiheit, music recorded by Julian Rabius,
Spielberg/Germany, 2022, 19 minutes
Duo Flying Tree
Flute: Stephanie Lepp, Cello: Levan Andria, Sound: Music composed by Duo Flying Tree, film clip from: Trip to Varanasi, The New & Faraway Mountains, Music recording by Julian Rabius, Heinade-Hellental, Germany, 2019
Film: Director: Manoj Mauryaa, cinematography & editing: Eckart Reichl, 2019, 7 minutes
Healing Mantras
A music film by Felix Maria Woschek.
Director & editor: Eckart Reichl 2011, 11 minutes
Overtones with voice and steel.
Director: Valerie Madoka Naito, Cinematography & editing:
Eckart Reichl, 2007, portrait, 9 minutes
Short films
... everything, but shorter
Healing with sounds
Gloria Hildegard Frenz's sounds are so profound, her approach to the person seeking help so loving and her ability to respond to the specific situation so convincing that I can wholeheartedly recommend her as a sound therapist.
Direction & cinematography & editing: Eckart
Reichl
Sounds: Gloria Hildegard Frenz
Shintai
Katrin Rössler practices Shintai with love and dedication. She is a wonderful companion for the journey inwards. Practice LebensArt
Direction & cinematography & editing: Eckart
Reichl,
Music: Kuma-Um
Concerts & Operas
Live projections & recordings
Corsamusa
The Scottish-Irish show highlight continues its success story - Cornamusa - every concert an experience with heart and soul, offering non-stop entertainment. ( IRISH DANCE + SCOTTISH HIGHLIGHTS ) World-class dancers with a 7-piece live band.
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl
Live, 2023, 3:35 minutes
The nightingale
Karsten Gundermann librettizes Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" for a "Peking Opera".
Direction & composition: Karsten Gundermann
Cinematography: Eckart Reichl
Sound: Frieder Zimmermann
Editing: Harald Schluttig
2012, 90 minutes
Making of >>Turandot<<
Scenes from the production by Marie-Eve
Signeyrole (director)
Heiko Hentschel (co-director)
Turandot - Semper
Digital (Trailer)
Giacomo Puccini "Turandot" //
Semperoper Dresden (Trailer)
A production of the Semperoper Dresden.
2023, 1:45 minutes
Promotion videos & Image films
On my own behalf