Ben Becker

Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last engagement, he decides to take his own life. He ...

A legendary band story began in Münster, Westphalia, in 1973: Udo Lindenberg and the Panikorchester played their first concert and released the ...

Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way ...

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of ...

His name is the symbol of the traitor: Judas, the disciple of Jesus who delivered him to the cross. But is he really seen correctly or is our ...

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a ...

Emma Mayer is a psychologist and advises people in crisis situations. She works at a radio station in Mannheim and does her best to provide ...

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.

Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash and ...

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ...

The Rhine is the center of the European soul, the continent’s largest and most important river. Over thousands of years, it has formed ...

Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. ...

Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads ...

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. “Habermann” is based on true events.

Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone’s death that ...

New Year’s Eve, shortly after five. Ten travelers have missed the last ferry to Copenhagen and are lured aboard the small steamer ...

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate ...

Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany.

Prussian general’s son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, ...

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his ...

Berlin Alexanderplatz; within 24 hours, various stories rotate between the heights and depths of the square, between the television tower and the ...

A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after ...

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is ...

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German ...

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the ...