Elisabeth Trissenaar

Sonia’s nightmare is never ending. Her super-rich husband Frederic is now locked in a psychiatric unit after he attempted to kill her. But her ...

A German TV drama

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique ...

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it ...

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to ...

Lona Vogt is a target investigator and, together with her friend and colleague Simon Katzer, has been on the trail of the murderer Manuel Bove ...

Gordon and Catherine are happy. He feels safe with her, she divorces him for him. The couple buy a farm in Tanzania, and soon Catherine is ...

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. ...

Berlin public prosecutor Susanne Marquardt wakes up in hospital after an accident. The patient, who is suffering from a tumor, can’t ...

A love story between a former Olympic swimmer turned jewel thief and a pastry chef/sex worker.

Dramatic life of Gustav “Bubi” Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a ...

Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is ...

The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann’s ...

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening ...

A mockumentary – after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred Edel is sent in to film an obituary.

After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant ...

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his ...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover ...

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist’s play “Penthesilea”. Like from a distance Kleist observes the ...

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents’ villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, ...

An abstract look at the changes in a woman’s inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.