Harun Farocki
Directing Born Jan 9, 1944 Died Jul 30, 2014 Neutitschein, Sudetenland 233 credits
Biography
Harun Farocki works in directing. Born January 9, 1944 in Neutitschein, Sudetenland. Died July 30, 2014. Archytele tracks 233 screen credits across canonical film and television databases.
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Frequent co-stars
Harry Carter
19 shared titles
Pavel Kadochnikov
12 shared titles
Robert Adler
9 shared titles
Hwang In-youp
7 shared titles
Amélie Hoeferle
6 shared titles
Alessandro Siani
6 shared titles
Vitali Solomin
5 shared titles
Boryslav Brondukov
5 shared titles
Sergey Shakurov
5 shared titles
Chet Brandenburg
5 shared titles
Career timeline
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
About NarrationAbout Narration · DirectorThe Words of the Chairman · DirectorThe Words of the Chairman · WriterSingle. A Record is Being Produced · Director
Labour in a Single Shot · Director
Confusion · Director
EXPRMNTL
A German YouthAs If We Were Somebody Else · Dramaturgy
Phoenix · Co-WriterHarun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).Parallel I–IV · Director
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects · Director
Barbara · WriterA New Product · WriterA New Product · EditorA New Product · Director
Serious Games 1–4 · Director
Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" · WriterSerious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" · DirectorSerious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" · EditorSerious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow · WriterSerious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow · Director
In Comparison · DirectorIn Comparison · WriterIn Comparison · ProducerIn Comparison · Still Photographer
Feasting or Flying · Director
Übertragung · DirectorYella · Script EditorDeep Play · DirectorRespite · DirectorRespite · Writer
Am Rand der Städte · ProducerDubbing · DirectorOn Construction of Griffith’s Films · Director
Ghosts · ScreenplayGhosts · DramaturgyPalette revisitedWho is Helene Schwarz?A Way · Director
KulturplatzCounter-Music · DirectorNothing Ventured · DirectorNothing Ventured · Screenplay
War at a Distance · ScreenplayWar at a Distance · DirectorEye / Machine III · ScreenplayEye / Machine III · Director
Starbuck Holger MeinsEye / Machine II · DirectorEye / Machine II · Screenplay
The State I Am In · WriterThe Creators of the Shopping Worlds · DirectorThe Creators of the Shopping Worlds · WriterThe Creators of the Shopping Worlds · ProducerThe Creators of the Shopping Worlds · Director of Photography
Prison Images · DirectorPrison Images · ScreenplayI Thought I Was Seeing Convicts · ScreenplayI Thought I Was Seeing Convicts · Director
Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe · Producer
What Farocki Taught · WriterWords and Games · ScreenplayWords and Games · Director
Still Life · WriterStill Life · EditorStill Life · DirectorDocumenta X - Die Filme · DirectorThe Expression of Hands
The Appearance · DirectorCuba Libre · Screenplay
Workers Leaving the FactoryWorkers Leaving the Factory · DirectorWorkers Leaving the Factory · WriterWorkers Leaving the Factory · ProducerInterface
Re-education · DirectorRe-education · WriterThe Leading Role · Director
Navy CutA Day in the Life of a Consumer · Director
Videograms of a Revolution · DirectorVideograms of a Revolution · WriterVideograms of a Revolution · ProducerThe Warm Money · Script EditorCamera and Reality · Director
Images of the World and the Inscription of WarImages of the World and the Inscription of War · DirectorImages of the World and the Inscription of War · WriterImages of the World and the Inscription of War · ProducerImages of the World and the Inscription of War · Editor
Full Filmography
233 titles- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- About Narration (2025)
- About Narration (2025) Director
- The Words of the Chairman (2025) Director
- The Words of the Chairman (2025) Writer
- Single. A Record is Being Produced (2025) Director
- Single. A Record is Being Produced (2025) Script
- Make Up (2025) Director
- Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2025) Director
- Labour in a Single Shot (2020) Director
- Confusion (2017) Director
- EXPRMNTL (2016) as Himself
- A German Youth (2015) as Self (archive footage)
- As If We Were Somebody Else (2015) Dramaturgy
- Phoenix (2014) Co-Writer
- Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011). (2014) as Harun Farocki
- Parallel I–IV (2014) Director
- Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013) Director
- Barbara (2012) Writer
- A New Product (2012) Writer
- A New Product (2012) Editor
- A New Product (2012) Director
- Serious Games 1–4 (2011) Director
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" (2010) Writer
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" (2010) Director
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" (2010) Editor
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010) Writer
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010) Director
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010) Editor
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010) Writer
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010) Director
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010) Editor
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion (2010) Writer
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion (2010) Editor
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion (2010) Director
- The Silver and the Cross (2010) Director
- Repouring, Variation 1 (2010) Director
- In Comparison (2009) Director
- In Comparison (2009) Writer
- In Comparison (2009) Producer
- In Comparison (2009) Still Photographer
- Feasting or Flying (2008) Director
- Übertragung (2007) Director
- Yella (2007) Script Editor
- Deep Play (2007) Director
- Respite (2007) Director
- Respite (2007) Writer
- Respite (2007) Producer
- Memories (2007) Director
- Memories (2007) Story
- Memories (2007) Editor
- Memories (2007) Producer
- Comparison via a Third (2007) Director
- Am Rand der Städte (2006) Producer
- Dubbing (2006) Director
- On Construction of Griffith’s Films (2006) Director
- Ghosts (2005) Screenplay
- Ghosts (2005) Dramaturgy
- Palette revisited (2005)
- Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005) as Self
- A Way (2005) Director
- Aufstellung (2005) Director
- Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki (2005) as Self
- Kulturplatz (2004) as Self
- Counter-Music (2004) Director
- Nothing Ventured (2004) Director
- Nothing Ventured (2004) Screenplay
- War at a Distance (2003) Screenplay
- War at a Distance (2003) Director
- Eye / Machine III (2003) Screenplay
- Eye / Machine III (2003) Director
- Starbuck Holger Meins (2002) as Self
- Eye / Machine II (2002) Director
- Eye / Machine II (2002) Screenplay
- The State I Am In (2001) Writer
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) Director
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) Writer
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) Producer
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) Director of Photography
- Eye / Machine I (2001) Director
- Eye / Machine I (2001) Screenplay
- Prison Images (2000) Director
- Prison Images (2000) Screenplay
- I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000) Screenplay
- I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000) Director
- Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe (1999) Producer
- What Farocki Taught (1998) Writer
- Words and Games (1998) Screenplay
- Words and Games (1998) Director
- Still Life (1997) Writer
- Still Life (1997) Editor
- Still Life (1997) Director
- Documenta X - Die Filme (1997) Director
- The Expression of Hands (1997)
- The Expression of Hands (1997) Director
- The Expression of Hands (1997) Writer
- The Interview (1997) Director
- The Appearance (1996) Director
- Cuba Libre (1996) Screenplay
- Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) as Narrador
- Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) Director
- Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) Writer
- Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) Producer
- Interface (1995) as Self
- Interface (1995) Director
- Interface (1995) Writer
- Interface (1995) Producer
- Pilots (1995) Script Editor
- Re-education (1994) Director
- Re-education (1994) Writer
- The Leading Role (1994) Director
- Navy Cut (1993)
- A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993) Director
- Videograms of a Revolution (1992) Director
- Videograms of a Revolution (1992) Writer
- Videograms of a Revolution (1992) Producer
- The Warm Money (1992) Script Editor
- Camera and Reality (1992) Director
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) as Self (uncredited)
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) Director
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) Writer
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) Producer
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) Editor
- What’s Up? (1991) Director
- Kinostadt Paris (1990) Director
- How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990) Director
- Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen? (1989) Director
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988) as Self
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988) Director
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988) Writer
- Indoctrination (1987) Director
- Indoctrination (1987) Writer
- Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen (1987) Director
- Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen (1987) Editor
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986)
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986) Director
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986) Writer
- Filmbooks (1986) Director
- As You See (1986) Director
- As You See (1986) Writer
- Betrayed (1985) Director
- Betrayed (1985) Screenplay
- Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985) Director
- Class Relations (1984) as Delamarche
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984) Director
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984) Writer
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984) Producer
- Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations" (1983)
- Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations" (1983) Director
- An Image (1983) Director
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983)
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983) Director
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983) Screenplay
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983) Editor
- Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982) Director
- Filme von Peter Weiss (1982) as Self
- Filme von Peter Weiss (1982) Director
- Filme von Peter Weiss (1982) Writer
- Filme von Peter Weiss (1982) Editor
- Zeit der langen Nächte (1981) as Günter
- "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics (1981) as Self
- Henry Angst (1980)
- Putting Things Straight (1979)
- Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss (1979) Writer
- Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss (1979) Director
- The Taste of Life (1979) Director
- Industry and Photography (1979) Director
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann (1978) as Self / Interviewer
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann (1978) Director
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann (1978) Writer
- Cinématon (1978) as N°1068
- "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. (1978) as Film director
- Between Two Wars (1978)
- Between Two Wars (1978) Director
- Between Two Wars (1978) Writer
- Bedtime Stories: Cat (1977) Director
- Bedtime Stories: Railways (1977) Director
- Bedtime Stories: Bridges (1977) Director
- Bedtime Stories: Ships (1977) Director
- Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (1976)
- Die Schlacht - Szenen aus Deutschland (1976) Director
- Kampf um ein Kind (1975)
- Bent or Broken (1975) Screenplay
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright (1975) as (voice)
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright (1975) Writer
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright (1975) Director
- Moderatoren im Fernsehen (1974) Director
- Moderatoren im Fernsehen (1974) Script
- The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television (1973) Director
- Brunner is Next (1973) Director
- Brunner is Next (1973) Writer
- Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen (1973) Director
- Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen (1973) Writer
- Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971)
- Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971) Director
- Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971) Writer
- Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
- Die Teilung aller Tage (1970) Director
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)
- The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
- The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Director
- The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Producer
- The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Screenplay
- The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) Editor
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets (1969) Producer
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets (1969) Editor
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets (1969) Director
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets (1969) Writer
- Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma (1969)
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin (1969) Producer
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin (1969) Writer
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin (1969) Director
- White Christmas (1968) Writer
- White Christmas (1968) Editor
- White Christmas (1968) Director
- Their Newspapers (1968)
- Their Newspapers (1968) Director
- Their Newspapers (1968) Writer
- Their Newspapers (1968) Editor
- Break the Power of the Manipulators (1968)
- Three Shots at Rudi (1968) Director
- Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students (1968) Director
- 3000 Houses (1967)
- The Campaign Volunteer (1967) Director
- The Campaign Volunteer (1967) Screenplay
- Farocki dreht (1967)
- Two Paths (1966) Writer
- Two Paths (1966) Director
- Everybody a Berliner Kindl (1966) Writer
- Everybody a Berliner Kindl (1966) Director
- Grimme Award (1964) as Self
- Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
- Häuser 1–2 Director
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Harun Farocki best known for?
Harun Farocki is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Phoenix (2014), Barbara (2012), Hope and Gloria (1995), Hope and Gloria (1995).
When and where was Harun Farocki born?
Harun Farocki was born on January 9, 1944 in Neutitschein, Sudetenland. They passed away on July 30, 2014.
How many credits does Harun Farocki have?
Harun Farocki has accumulated over 233 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1964 to 2026.
What is Harun Farocki's background in cinema and television?
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Harun Farocki by the numbers
233credits
231films
2TV series
1964–2026active years
Age in their best-rated roles
- Class Relations (1984) as Delamarche — aged about 40
- Kulturplatz (2004) as Self — aged about 60
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