After completing a commercial and graphic training course, Rischert became head of an animation studio. In 1959, at the age of 23, he founded his own production company for industrial, educational and advertising films. He now operates in Schwabing , the Christian Rischert film production .
Since the 1960s he has mainly been making documentaries. He became known to the general public with his documentary series Die Weinmacher . Christian Rischert made many films about Italy, including Venice - The Islands of the Blessed on the Edge of Fall with Michael Ballhaus on camera.
1967: Place 219 (45min TV film about a working couple at the Agfa company in Munich)
1969: Deutschland 69 (TV film about the political climate in Germany in 1969. Was rejected by the broadcaster for political reasons.)
1969: Solitary confinement (Fuhlsbüttel) TV film
1969: I was at Caudillo, Franziska (The first "film correspondence" on television)
1970: The adaptation (An elaborate television fiction film for ZDF in 35 mm B / W, produced by Bavaria-Filmkunst-Produktion. Director: C. Rischert)
1971: touches
1971: Middle school leaving certificate (80 min. A girls class in a secondary school in Munich)
1972: La Bouffe (pilot film for the following series A la carte )
1974: The death of the fisherman Marc Leblanc (100 min. Theatrical documentary fiction. Distributor: Filmverlag of the authors.)
1975: The monastery of Vedana (45 min. The first television film about a Carthusian monastery near Beluno.)
1976: Paradise Garden (45 min. Film about Torcello with the painter and lagoon nomad Carlo Memo.)
1976: Venice - the island of the blissful on the verge of extinction (100 min. Movie. Awarded the German Prize for Monument Protection 1975)
1980: Lena Rais (cinema film. Awarded three federal film prizes and best German film from the Gilde Deutscher Filmkunst-Theater. Official German contribution to the film festival on the Lido in Venice)
1981: An orchestra (90min television documentary film)
1984: When I'm afraid ... (Feature film. Starring: Horst Buchholz and Franziska Bronnen. Official German contribution to the Montreal Film Festival)
1984: Islands behind the Sea ( 100 min. Film about the Venetian Islands, TV cinema film)
1984: In the shadow of Venice (film about Chioggia with Elio Balarin)
1986: In the ocean of longing (film about King Ludwig II of Bavaria 105 min. ARD)
1987: Die Weinmacher (ARD 16 films about European winemakers. Awarded the "Kulturpreis der Sommelierunion Deutschland eV")
1994: Wiener Lust (90 min. Film about Vienna. Awarded the Bavarian Television Prize 1995)
1996: Lago di Garda - A view of the lake
1997: Song of the Birds (film about the State Philharmonic in Minsk-Belarus under the Franco-German chief conductor Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle.)
1998: La Scala and the magic of gold ( TV cinema. La Scala in Milan with its opening program on December 7, 1998.)
2003: Italy - Land of Promise (Seven film novels each 45 min.)
2009: Il Diavolo: My Venetian Friend (His fifth film about Venice. World premiere at the Five Lakes Film Festival in Upper Bavaria.)
