I Want It All

I Want It All

Direction: Luzia Schmid

DocumentaryMovieCinema

Germany, 2025
98 Min.

For the Money MASTERPLAN

zero one film in Coproduction with rbb.
Funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF..

Rental: Piffl Medien
World Distribution: Magnet Film

World Premiere: 16. Februar 2025, Berlin
Cinema premiere: 3. März 2025

Content

Hildegard Knef: global superstar, style icon, grand dame of chanson, the last German diva. Strong of opinion, controversial, simultaneously an archetype and antitype of her time. As an actor, singer and writer, she revelled in international success, experienced crushing defeats and was creatively active for more than five decades. She became a public figure in Germany at the age of 20 and was never allowed to return to anonymity. Her favourite topics of being successful, failing, constantly reinventing oneself and – against all odds – always getting back on one’s feet, made her an expert in survival.
Ich will alles. Hildegard Knef portrays a highly talented, ambitious, laconic and astute woman who showed the world how to master both fame and failure.

News

“I Want It All” tours Australia

Festival

“I Want It All” tours Australia

Our Berlinale entry and audience favorite 'I want it all' is heading to Australia! Luzia Schmid’s documentary will be screened in cinemas across eight cities this May as part of the HSBC German Film Festival: Adelaide, Ballarat, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. 
A big thank you to the festival and to all the movie lovers who will now have the chance to discover Hildegard Knef and her remarkable story on the other side of the world.

For all dates and further information, visit the festival website.

Team and audience celebrate the premiere of ‘I want it all’

Berlinale

Team and audience celebrate the premiere of ‘I want it all’

On 16 February, the time had come: the world premiere of ‘I Want It All’ at the Berlinale. Hildegard Knef's daughter Christina and her husband Paul von Schell joined the team led by director Luzia Schmid to celebrate a reunion with Hilde on the big screen. The audience in the sold-out Haus der Berliner Festspiele applauded the film and celebrated the immortal Hildegard Knef.

Also in cinemas from 3 April!

Credits

Director  Luzia Schmid
Editing Yana Höhnerbach
Score Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke
DoP Hajo Schomerus
Sound Ralf Weber
Sound Design Holger Buff
Production Manager Conny Ziller, Günter Thimm (rbb), Dennis Münch (rbb)
Executive Producer Ulli Pfau
Producer Thomas Kufus