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 300 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 500 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 See here for a selection of these mostly unedited and unpublished filmed interviews with directors, actors, film historians and other experts or crew members.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, Edward Dmytryk, Federico Fellini, Richard Fleischer, Alfred Hitchcock, Jerry Lewis, Louis Malle, Otto Preminger, Francesco Rosi, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh, William A. Wellman, Fred Zinnemann and many others.

BLAST OF SILENCE | USA | The Criterion Collection | 5 December 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary REQUIEM FOR A KILLER: THE MAKING OF BLAST OF SILENCE (60 min).

Die abendfüllende, zwischen 2019 und 2022 entstandene Fiction-Factory-Produktion DAS ARTURO-PROJEKT von Robert Fischer wurde als eine von 18 internationalen Beiträgen zum renommierten Berliner Filmfestival DOKUARTS eingeladen, das sich auf die Präsentation von Dokumentarfilmen zum Thema Kunst spezialisiert hat. Die erste Vorführung – am Freitag, 6. Oktober, 19:30 Uhr im Kino der Kulturbrauerei – ist zugleich die Berliner Premiere. Regisseur Robert Fischer und Produzent Wolfgang Hauck werden anwesend sein. (Wiederholung: Samstag, 14. Oktober, 17:30 Uhr, im Klick-Kino.)

»Ein zärtlicher Blick auf die Arbeit des kleinen privaten Theaters Wasserburg in Bayern, dessen Arturo Ui-Inszenierung kurz vor der Pandemie mit außerordentlicher Ausdruckskraft dargeboten wurde. Mit Geduld beobachtet Fischer den Probenprozess der Inszenierung, bei der Schauspieler, Zirkuskünstler, Stelzer und Musiker zum ersten Mal zusammenwirken. Entstanden ist eine einzigartige musikalische und artistische Version eines Brechtstückes, das nichts an Aktualität verloren hat« (DOKUARTS-Programm-Information).

Fiction Factory is pleased to announce that Robert Fischer’s feature-length documentary THE ARTURO PROJECT (2022) has been invited as one of 18 international entries to the prestigious DOKUARTS film festival in Berlin, which specialises in presenting documentaries about art and artists. The first screening – on Friday, 6 October, 7:30 pm at the Kulturbrauerei cinema – is also the Berlin premiere. Director Robert Fischer and producer Wolfgang Hauck will attend. (Repeat screening: Saturday, 14 October, 5:30 p.m., at Klick-Kino).

»A tender look at the work of a small private theatre, the Theater Wasserburg in Bavaria. With commitment and panache, the theater presented its extraordinary production of Arturo Ui shortly before the pandemic. Fischer sensitively observes the rehearsal process of the production, in which actors, circus artists, stilt walkers, and musicians collaborate for the first time. The result is a unique musical and artistic version of Brecht’s famous play that has lost none of its urgency« (DOKUARTS programme information).

Directed by Walter Hill | Australia | Imprint | 26 July 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries OUTLAW BROTHERS: THE MAKING OF THE LONG RIDERS (64 min), THE NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID: ANATOMY OF A SCENE (15 min), SLOW MOTION: WALTER HILL ON SAM PECKINPAH (6 min), and CODES TO LIVE BY: WALTER HILL ON JOHNNY HANDSOME (44 min).

THE RANOWN WESTERNS: FIVE FILMS DIRECTED BY BUDD BOETTICHER | USA | The Criterion Collection | 18 July 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary VISITING… BUDD BOETTICHER: BUDD BOETTICHER ON THE RANOWN CYCLE (36 min).

BLUEBEARD | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 14 July 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries EDWARD DMYTRYK ON THE HOLLYWOOD TEN (25 min) and MAKING A DIFFERENCE: JEAN PORTER-DMYTRYK ON EDWARD DMYTRYK (27 min).

LILLI MARLEEN | Filmjuwelen | 7 July 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary HANNA SCHYGULLA: LILI MARLEEN REMEMBERED (6 min).

FAR FROM HEAVEN | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 21 April 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary A POWERFUL POLITICAL POTENTIAL: TODD HAYNES ON SIRK AND FASSBINDER (15 min).

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO (1954) | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 6 April 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary EIN HANDWERKER DES KINOS: ELKE SEEL-VIANDON ÜBER DAS LEBEN UND DIE FILME VON ROBERT VERNAY (61 min).

PLUTONIUM | Germany | Filmjuwelen | 24 March 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: VON DER BAVARIA ZUR PENTAGRAMMA (1952-1973) (39 min) and RAINER ERLER ERZÄHLT: PLUTONIUM (1978) (8 min).

THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED | UK | Arrow Video | 6 March 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary THIS BOY’S INNOCENCE: JOHN MOULDER-BROWN ON THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMS (24 min).

HURRY SUNDOWN | Australia | Imprint | 22 February 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY OTTO PREMINGER: AN APPRECIATION BY PETER BOGDANOVICH (34 min).

THE MOUNTAIN | Australia | Imprint | 22 February 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentary EDWARD DMYTRYK ON THE HOLLYWOOD TEN (25 min).

THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN | USA | MVD Rewind | 24 January 2023

Contains the Fiction Factory documentaries THE FIRST AMERICAN VIRGIN: BOAZ DAVIDSON ON THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (36 min), MEMORIES OF A PIZZA BOY: LAWRENCE MONOSON ON THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (26 min), BABE OF THE EIGHTIES: DIANE FRANKLIN ON THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (21 min), and IN PRAISE OF SMALLER MOVIES: ADAM GREENBERG ON THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (21 min).