- I would like to be your friend. But friendship isn't possible. - That makes me feel very comfortable.

DEAR MR. WONDERFUL

Despite living in Jersey City, where he runs a bowling alley and nightclub, Ruby believes one day he’ll become a big shot in Las Vegas.

DAVID

CALM PREVAILS OVER THE COUNTRY

Filmed in Portugal, Calm Prevails Over the Country is a powerful political parable describing a police crackdown in a resistance-riddled Latin American country.

LA VICTORIA

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.

Peter Lilienthal | Filmmaker

Peter Lilienthal was born 1929 in Berlin and emigrated with his mother in 1939 to Uruguay. He studied art history and law at the University of Montevideo and joined the university film club where he worked on socially critical short films.

Lilienthal returned to Berlin in 1954, and two years later received a scholarship to study at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. He transferred to the HdK in Berlin, where he first studied painting and design, then experimental photography and film. From 1959-1961, Lilienthal worked as a director and production assistant for the Südwestfunk and from 1961-1964 as a director for the same television station. In 1964, he moved to Berlin and worked as a freelance director mainly for the Radio Free Berlin. Peter Lilienthal’s film Malatesta debuted in 1970.