Felix Moeller

Biography

Felix Moeller was born in Munich in 1965. As a historian, he has written and published several works on German film history, which deal with subjects like Nazi propaganda cinema or individuals like Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl and Hildegard Knef.

Moeller also frequently worked as an advisor on feature films and documentaries, including "Die Macht der Bilder – Leni Riefenstahl" ("The Power of the Image: Leni Riefenstahl", 1992) and "Ein Tag im September" ("One Day in September", CH/DE/GB 1999). With his company Blueprint Film, he co-produced releases like "Die Schachspielerin" (FR/DE 2009), "Small World" (FR/DE 2010) and "Diplomatie" ("Diplomacy", FR/DE 2014).

As author and director, Felix Moeller created several TV documentaries: "Die Verhoevens" ("The Verhoevens", 2003), which portrayed three generations of the Verhoeven film dynasty, the actor portraits "Hildegard Knef – Die frühen Jahre" (2005) and "Katja Riemann" (2006), as well as the feature film documentary "Harlan – Im Schatten von Jud Süß" (2009), which was nominated for German Film Award for Best Documentary. In 2014, his documentary "Verbotene Filme", in which he explores the controversial discussion surrounding films from the Nazi era was released in Germany.

In 2016, Moeller began work on the documentary "Sympathisanten - Unser Deutscher Herbst", which features interviews with artists and intellectuals that, for various reasons, were considered to be sympathetic towards the terrorist actions of the Red Army Faction in the 1970s. The film was released in May 2018. The same month saw the premiere of the documentary "Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman" ("Searching For Ingmar Bergman", DE/FR 2018) by Moeller and his mother Margarethe von Trotta at the Cannes IFF.

In the years that followed, Moeller continued to engage deeply with the subjects of National Socialism and antisemitism. As a producer, he helped launch the television documentary "Als Botschafter bei Hitler" (DE/FR 2021), a unique look at 1930s Berlin seen through the eyes of foreign ambassadors who observed the rise of the Nazi regime and the transformation of society at close range. As writer and director, he created the award-winning documentary "Jud Süß 2.0" ("Jew Suess 2.0," DE/AT 2021), which examines antisemitic propaganda in films of the Nazi era as well as the persistence of antisemitic tropes in contemporary cinema and the digital sphere.

With "Weltkarriere einer Lüge" (2025), Moeller returned to feature-length documentary filmmaking. The film investigates the origins, dissemination, and enduring impact of the antisemitic tract "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." It was released in theaters in December 2025.