Hilmar Thate

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries...

ZIBB

DAS!

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily update...

Nachtcafé

Tietjen und Bommes

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Blauer Panther

Lebensläufe

Der König von St. Pauli

Rudi, who operates a striptease club in St Pauli, incurs immense gambling debts. The situation gets worse when...

Veronika Voss

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz,...

Daniel Druskat

Large-scale, five-part film about the relationship between two men caught between friendship, rivalry and hatre...

The Sailor's Song

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, Germ...

The Ninth Day

During WWII, head priest Henri Kremer is mysteriously freed from Dachau. He learns that he can return home to L...

Angels of Iron

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the...

Preludio 11

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary ne...

Mother Courage and Her Children

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and...

The Elective Affinities

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missin...

Zweikampf

Zement

Early 1921: a man is on his way home. Gleb Chumalov, regimental commander, worker and Hero of the Order of the...

Variation

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.

Jahrgang 21

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "fo...

Divided Heaven

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two y...

Hurenglück

Eva’s interactions with men are polite but distant. Grosser, the director of the church choir, is in love with...

Professor Mamlock

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent...

Operation Rubikon

Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78

In a backwater town, opera director Andrej Wischnewsky is supposed to put on a production of Mozart's "Don Giov...

Dom Juan

Filmed for television, this production adapts Molière’s Dom Juan (or The Feast with the Statue), following the...

Optimistische Tragödie

During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist...

Memento

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Marti...

Paths in the Night

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decayin...

Die Tage der Commune

Victory and demise of the first proletarian dictatorship in the history of mankind, about the struggling, bleed...

Die letzte Chance

It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo officer Dr. B...

People with Wings

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the...

Fleur Lafontaine

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor...

The Gleiwitz Case

To justify their invasion of Poland at the start of WWII, Nazi high command hatches a secret plan: six Polish m...

Krieger und Liebhaber

Underworld boss Caesar has a close male friendship with his personal chef Alfons. However, this is put to the t...