Directing
Ottomar Domnick was a German film director, author and psychiatrist.
Self portrait of psychiatrist, filmmaker, musician and art collector Ottomar Domnick.
The mental crisis of an architect whose reflections on his commission to build a prison lead to the realization that the modern Western world is a single prison.
Ottomar Domnick′s experimental feature film is a portrait of the print shop employee Jonas who lives in a large city and suffers from feelings of guilt and fear for his existence. When he finds a hat that bears the initials of a friend that he left during the war when he fled from a detention camp, his sense of guilt becomes a severe paranoia.
A middle aged man got cancer and doesn't know how long he got left to live. He has to undergo therapy.
Short film about modernism in painting.
One day, Gino, a 16-year-old guest worker boy, is hired by his boss, a well-respected owner of a quarry, to keep an eye on his divorced wife. The boy gets involved and one day takes a liking to the much older lady, who successfully tries her hand at writing novels. The affection is soon reciprocated, and yet the writing ex-wife realizes that no blessing can rest on this relationship, the two worlds are too different and the resulting possibility of joint communication is too different. Gino dreams of a sports car, so one day she allows him to get behind the wheel of her expensive car. Eventually there is a serious accident in which Gino dies.
A German Film Award commended documentary.