Eric Friedler

Eric Friedler

1971-06-20 Sydney, Australia 24 Credits
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Stammheim - Zeit des Terrors

Stammheim - Zeit des Terrors

2025

Commissioning Editor

The Stammheim trial against the leadership of the first generation of the RAF was one of the most elaborate in the Federal Republic of Germany. Throug...

From Darkness to Light

From Darkness to Light

2025

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews wi...

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal

2024

Director

8.3
Directing

To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric Frie...

Loriot 100

Loriot 100

2023

Executive Producer

8.5
Producing

Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance

2022

Editorial Staff

4.9

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his l...

The American Führer

The American Führer

2022

Idea

The story of the fascist conman Fritz Julius Kuhn is as unknown as it is terrifying: Kuhn is a German immigrant who pretends to be Hitler’s deputy in ...

Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes

Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes

2020

Editorial Staff

On June 1st, 2019, around 11:30pm, the shoot which represents a turning point in the federal republic falls. In the hessian small town Wolfhagen-Istha...

A Black Jesus

A Black Jesus

2020

Producer

8.0
Producing

In Siculiana, a small Sicilian town full of flaking facades, religiosity is lived out as a matter of course. And of course the figure of Jesus Christ ...

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020

Director, Script, Screenplay

7.7
Directing Writing

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

Die Affäre Borgward

Die Affäre Borgward

2018

Producer

6.0
Producing

The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaftswunder. For hundreds of thousands the "Isabella" ...

Lehman. Gier frisst Herz

Lehman. Gier frisst Herz

2018

Commissioning Editor

7.0

On September 15, 2008, the financial world faces its worst crisis since the end of the Second World War. Lehman Brothers, one of the world's largest i...

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

2018

Director, Writer

8.2
Directing Writing

A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany...

Eskimo Limon - Eis am Stiel: Von Siegern und Verlierern

Eskimo Limon - Eis am Stiel: Von Siegern und Verlierern

2018

Writer, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

Eric Friedler, multiple winner of the Grimme and German Television Awards, accompanies the actors from back then on a journey into their past. In inte...

The Clown

The Clown

2016

Director, Writer

8.0
Directing Writing

A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried".

Das Mädchen – Was geschah mit Elisabeth K.?

Das Mädchen – Was geschah mit Elisabeth K.?

2014

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Argentina, 1977: The country is oppressed by a military dictatorship. Thousands of critics of the regime are abducted, tortured and killed. Elisabeth ...

The Voice of Peace

The Voice of Peace

2014

Director

8.0
Directing
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen

Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen

2012

Director

Directing

Germany's most popular punk rock band "Die Toten Hosen" ("The dead pants") celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2012. In his film "Nichts als die Wahr...

Ein deutscher Boxer

Ein deutscher Boxer

2012

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

2012

Director

Directing

Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had called itself "the better Germany" for 40 year...

Aghet

Aghet

2010

Director

8.2
Directing

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness report...

Berlin '36

Berlin '36

2009

Writer

5.6
Writing

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by...

The Silence of the Quandts

2007

Director, Writer

10.0
Directing Writing

A documentary describing the role of the Quandt family businesses during World War II.

The RAF: The Red Army Fraction

The RAF: The Red Army Fraction

2007

Commissioning Editor

From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - ...

Lemon Popsicle - of Winners and Losers

N/A

Director

Directing

The film explores the impact of LEMON POPSICLE, a 1978 Israeli coming of age comedy about the sexual revolution and free love which subsequently found...