Josef Bierbichler

Scene of the Crime

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

German Film Award

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Through the Night with...

Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German televisi...

Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

The White Ribbon

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by...

Crime Stories

A respected small-town physician has brutally killed his wife, thus ending a four-year martyrdom from which he...

Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five ch...

Das Konto

Heart of Glass

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works di...

The Bone Man

Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing c...

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs arou...

Exit Marrakech

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through...

A Birthday to Remember

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or t...

Hamlet_X

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet a...

Winter Sleepers

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her...

A Year Ago in Winter

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commission...

Winter Journey

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and f...

Deadly Maria

40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take...

Landauer

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the m...

Dicke Freunde

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and A...

The Architect

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every co...

Beer Chase

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform...

Daughters

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha...

Kochschule Schwarz

Munich, 1938: After his traditional Jewish restaurant was destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, restaura...

The Farewell

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares...

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police s...

Mein Freund der Scheich

Ohne einander

Wilhelm Tell

Claus Peymann's production of Schiller's play about oppression, rebellion and human rights is less a flaming po...

Don't Look at Me That Way

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sofia by herself. The two women start a relationship a...

Außer Kontrolle

Wedding Shower

The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.

Brand

Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous...