Hans Helmut Prinzler was a film lover without a rigid canon, he liked going to the cinema, including the new action cinema, he let himself be seduced and always saw the pictures on the screen in the context of their society, their history. He liked listening when filmmakers talked about their experiences, with old King Vidor as well as with Klaus Wildenhahn. In 2007 he made the film "Eye in Eye" with Michael Althen: ten filmmakers are confronted with ten works from German cinema history.