
Harun Farocki
Directing
January 9, 1944
Died July 30, 2014 (70 years old)
Neutitschein, Sudetenland
42
Acting Credits
95
Directed
Biography
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Known For
Filmography

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

About Narration
2025
8

EXPRMNTL
2016
as Himself

A German Youth
2015
as Self (archive footage)
7.1

Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
2014
as Harun Farocki
4
Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
2005
as Self
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
as Self
7

Palette revisited
2005

Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
6
Starbuck Holger Meins
2002
as Self
5.3

The Expression of Hands
1997
6.2

Interface
1995
as Self
6.5

Workers Leaving the Factory
1995
as Narrador
6.4
Navy Cut
1993

Images of the World and the Inscription of War
1991
as Self (uncredited)
6.7

Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
1988
as Self
6.3

Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
1986
6.5

Class Relations
1984
as Delamarche
6.8

Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983
6.4
Filme von Peter Weiss
1982
as Self

"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
1981
as Self
Zeit der langen Nächte
1981
as Günter
Henry Angst
1980
10

Putting Things Straight
1979

A Picture of Sarah Schumann
1978
as Self / Interviewer
9
"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
1978
as Film director
6

Between Two Wars
1978
6.5

Cinématon
1978
as N°1068
4.9

Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
1976
7.1

Kampf um ein Kind
1975
7

About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
1975
as (voice)

Something Self Explanatory (15x)
1971
10
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970

Die Teilung aller Tage
1970

The Inextinguishable Fire
1969
6.2
Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
1969

Their Newspapers
1968
7

Break the Power of the Manipulators
1968
Farocki dreht
1967

3000 Houses
1967
9
Grimme Award
1964
as Self

