Kurt Rosenthal

Through the testimony of a migrant from Cusco, the short film LA PARADA (1974) portrays one of Lima’s main hubs of popular commerce. Amid markets, street vendors, workshops, and the streets of Tacora, the film observes the labor, precarity, and strategies of survival of a migrant population transforming the city while seeking to build a life within it.

A film in three episodes: "Boarding House", "Chaparro Always Pays" and "Little Saturday".

Profile of Roberto Tevés, a traditional herbal healer who longs to return to his native land of Cora Cora (Ayacucho), but has already put down roots in the capital and its comforts.

Bilingual education (Spanish - Quechua and Spanish - Aymara) in Puno.

It showcases the copper prospecting and industrialization systems implemented in the Cajamarca area.

The huatia is one of the ways of cooking in the highlands to share food with the entire population, as seen in Chontayoc.

Through the testimony of a migrant from Cusco, the short film LA PARADA (1974) portrays one of Lima’s main hubs of popular commerce. Amid markets, street vendors, workshops, and the streets of Tacora, the film observes the labor, precarity, and strategies of survival of a migrant population transforming the city while seeking to build a life within it.

A film in three episodes: "Boarding House", "Chaparro Always Pays" and "Little Saturday".

Profile of Roberto Tevés, a traditional herbal healer who longs to return to his native land of Cora Cora (Ayacucho), but has already put down roots in the capital and its comforts.

Bilingual education (Spanish - Quechua and Spanish - Aymara) in Puno.

It showcases the copper prospecting and industrialization systems implemented in the Cajamarca area.

The huatia is one of the ways of cooking in the highlands to share food with the entire population, as seen in Chontayoc.

The problem that forest depletion represents for the native Campas people.

Filming in the town of Barranca about the formation of an artisanal fishing cooperative in Caleta Vidal with support from the German Foundation Neumam 3.

A children's film depicting the consequences of rain in Peru. A WDR production.

The Importance of the Coca Leaf in the Cultural and Magical Life of Peru. A documentary commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne – Germany.

Profile of Don Roberto Teves, a healer who inherited medicinal knowledge from his parents and grandparents, originating from ancient Inca Peru.

Influenced by the gold rush, a peasant from the mountains goes in search of the precious metal.

During the harvest, a farmer has to sleep next to his crops; once the harvest is complete, he returns home to sleep with his family. A documentary commissioned by Transtel in Germany.

The use of the manguaré drum for interpersonal communication. A native explains his ailments to a healer who lives far from his home using the manguaré drum.

A new piñata for a children's party is mistakenly thrown in the trash.

Filming in Satipo depicts the life of a rural child and his family within the social, cultural, economic, and ecological conditions in which their daily life unfolds.

Montage of several photos of the work process of a Turkish guest worker.

Afro-Peruvian dances for Christmas in Chincha.

The technique of making totora reed rafts.

Regarding the work of the Christian peasantry of Bambamarca, who together carry out works that benefit the community.

A Peruvian-German documentary about the gold fever in the Peruvian jungle and the life of the gold diggers.

A Peruvian-German documentary about the gold fever in the Peruvian jungle and the life of the gold diggers.

The farmers of Qhewe are the only community that preserves the Inca tradition of making a suspension bridge from ichu, an Andean vegetable that they collect in large quantities, braid into cords of all sizes and with them weave the bridge over the river.

Record of the life of the Yuyachkani theater group, its component actors and the works they present. Commissioned by the GDR.

The Tirado family's preparations to attend the procession of the Lord of Miracles in Lima. Commissioned CM for the WRF.

Construction of a sports complex carried out by members of the San Mateo peasant community with the support of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Kurt Rosenthal has animated 102 abstract landscape drawings made by Werner Nöfer as frames for this film in such a way that they take on a continual travelling motion, varying the order and detail shown. When the movement – and the accompanying motor noise – stop, the film strip itself becomes the subject of the film. In Oberhausen in 1971, the film was counted as being among the ‘Trip’ films.

The theory of continental drift that causes seismic movements on planet Earth.

The difficulties of an Andean education teacher in fulfilling his mission in a Campa indigenous community.

"Expropriated Springer!" is the motto of the extra-parliamentary movement after the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967. In many cities, demonstrators are trying to prevent the delivery of the Bild newspaper. The film documents the siege of the Springer House in Hamburg in 1968. The police reacted to the protests with unprecedented brutality, leading to a further radicalization of the movement. Like the birth of the Baader-Meinhof group.

"Expropriated Springer!" is the motto of the extra-parliamentary movement after the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967. In many cities, demonstrators are trying to prevent the delivery of the Bild newspaper. The film documents the siege of the Springer House in Hamburg in 1968. The police reacted to the protests with unprecedented brutality, leading to a further radicalization of the movement. Like the birth of the Baader-Meinhof group.

Learning of peasant children in their Basic Labor Education classes - EBL.

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The use of so-called "noble materials" in the construction of homes.

Experiences of an education teacher in a Campa indigenous community.

Didactic process explaining how movement is achieved in cartoons.

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