Wilhelm Hein

Directing

February 12, 1940 — March 15, 2025

Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

3 movies

Biography

Wilhelm Hein was born on February 12, 1940 in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for To Those Who Found No Graves (1994), Kali-Filme (1988) and Der König der Froschschenkel (1997). He was married to Birgit Hein. He died on March 15, 2025 in Germany.

🎬 Wilhelm Hein's Filmography

3 movies sorted by popularity

7.0

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.

Birth of a Nation

1997

An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners

4.0

Tangier, Morocco. December 2019 87-year-old American character actor Bruce Glover (Chinatown) goes missing from a film set on the first day of shooting.

An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners

2021

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).

Political Portraits

1969