FICTION FACTORY ROBERT FISCHER FILMPRODUKTION
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FICTION FACTORY is a Munich-based film production company specializing in documentaries and DVD/Blu-ray special features.

This website offers a complete chronological listing of every documentary produced by Fiction Factory since the start of the company in 2002, currently more than 320 titles. (Also included are earlier documentaries by Robert Fischer produced for German television in 1999-2000 and Fischer’s contributions to The Criterion Collection. Please note that most of the latter are produced and owned by Criterion.) The DVD/Blu-ray section lists, in alphabetical order, every published DVD or blu-ray that contains bonus features produced by Fiction Factory and/or Robert Fischer, with currently over 570 entries from all over the world. A search by director (either as subject or contributor) is possible either by clicking on a director’s name in the column on the right, or by using the search bar. If you are looking for films, names or subjects NOT listed in our database, please contact us! We are constantly working on new productions, shooting in Europe or the USA. We have also gained exclusive access to a large collection of archival interviews, and are in the process of making these available. See here for a selection of these mostly unedited and unpublished filmed interviews with directors, actors, film historians and other experts or crew members. Among the subjects covered are the films of Budd Boetticher, Federico Fellini, Jerry Lewis, Louis Malle, Francesco Rosi, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh, William A. Wellman, Fred Zinnemann and many others.

12.11.24 | Release Calendar: Coming Soon

  

DIE KATZE | UK | Radiance | 24 February 2025

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries GOOD TIMES: DOMINIK GRAF ON DIRECTING THE CAST (62 min), BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: CHRISTOPH FROMM ON WRITING THE CAST (32 min), and AGAINST ALL ODDS: GEORG FEIL ON PRODUCING THE CAT (32 min).

 

  

LAST TANGO IN PARIS | Australia | Imprint | 8 January 2025

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI ON LAST TANGO IN PARIS (16 min).

21.10.24 | Release Calendar: Just Added

THE WHITE BUFFALO | Germany | Wicked Vision | 27 December 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary KIM NOVAK: LOOKING BACK (13 min).

THOMAS MANN JAHRHUNDERT-EDITION | Germany | Fernsehjuwelen | 5 December 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries ERINNERUNGEN AN »FELIX KRULL«: BERNHARD SINKEL IM GESPRÄCH MIT ROBERT FISCHER (74 min), TEUFELSBÜNDE: DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT IN THOMAS MANNS »DOKTOR FAUSTUS« (55 min), and AM SET VON »DOKTOR FAUSTUS«: ERINNERUNGEN VON PETER SETZ (15 min).

30.9.24 | Release Calendar: Truffaut’s Adèle H. Coming Soon

THE STORY OF ADELE H. | UK | Radiance | 18 November 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary WORKING WITH FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT: NESTOR ALMENDROS, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (29 min).

13.09.24 | Release Calendar: Just Announced

UNDER CAPRICORN | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 14 November 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary KINO DER ZEICHEN: CLAUDE CHABROL ÜBER ALFRED HITCHCOCK (30 min).

THE MECHANIC | Germany | Wicked Vision | 8 November 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries AMERICAN SAMURAI: DWAYNE EPSTEIN ON CHARLES BRONSON AND »THE MECHANIC« (30 min) and THE HIRED HAND: HOW MONTE HELLMAN ALMOST DIRECTED »THE MECHANIC« (11 min).

03.07.24 | Release Calendar: Latest Addition

TESIS | Australia | Umbrella | 9 October 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary TOUCHING DEATH: ALEJANDRO AMENÁBAR ON TESIS (40 min).

10.06.24 | Coming Up: Summer Releases

JESSICA | Australia | Imprint | 28 August 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary ANGIE DICKINSON: LOOKING BACK (47 min).

ENDSTATION FREIHEIT | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 22 August 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary KATJA RUPÉ ERZÄHLT, TEIL 2: DEUTSCHLAND IM HERBST, ENDSTATION FREIHEIT UND THEATER IN PARIS (26 min).

JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 15 August 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary DALTON TRUMBO: REBEL IN HOLLYWOOD (59 min).

SMOKE | Australia | Imprint | 31 July 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary AUGGIE’S CORNER: WAYNE WANG ON SMOKE (13 min).

07.03.24 | Release Calendar: Just Added

STERNSTEINHOF | | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 10 May 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary KATJA RUPÉ ERZÄHLT, TEIL 1: VOM NEUEN THEATER ZUM NEUEN HEIMATFILM (32 min).

WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE | Germany | 25 April 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary TED KOTCHEFF’S GOURMET CINEMA: THE MAKING OF “WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE” (60 min).

22.01.2024 | Release Calendar: Jacques Rivette

L’AMOUR FOU | UK | Radiance | 6 May 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary LE CINEMA EN JEU: L’AMOUR FOU DE JACQUES RIVETTE REVISITÉ (94 min), a film by Robert Fischer.

L’AMOUR FOU | France | Potemkine | 2 April 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary LE CINEMA EN JEU: L’AMOUR FOU DE JACQUES RIVETTE REVISITÉ (94 min), a film by Robert Fischer.

VA SAVOIR + | France | Potemkine | 2 April 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary TEMPUS FUGIT, MANET AMOR: JACQUES RIVETTE À PROPOS DE «VA SAVOIR» (19 min).

04.12.2023 Release Calendar: Just Added

OPERATION GANYMED | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 21 March 2024

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: OPERATION GANYMED (1977) (7 min) and RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: VON DER BAVARIA ZUR PENTAGRAMMA (1952-1973) (39 min).