Florian Panzner

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred ...

A condemned man comes out of prison and does his utmost to find the true murderer of his wife in order to get his children back. This is the ...

Matthias is hopelessly overwhelmed when suddenly his mother Gisela is at the door. After a thigh fracture she sits in a wheelchair and needs ...

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was ...

Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or “Kundschafter des Friedens” as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, ...

Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracted to. But will their marriage survive it?

Jasper finally wants to meet his dad! To fulfill his wish, Mother Maike first has to find out who that is. Three teenage acquaintances come into ...

Germany in the “Swinging Sixties”: the Bundeswehr is equipping itself with the ultra-modern “Starfighter” fighter jet. ...

When she was a child, Ludmilla was the treasure of her parents, She worked, sewed, washed, and spun as much as seven ordinary people, and ...

Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, ...

Heinz Gödicke is the chief commissioner of the People’s Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two ...

In her former life, Eva Bernhardt was called Evelyn Frank and was a notorious brothel owner in Berlin. But then she decided to testify as a key ...

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of ...

One room situation thriller between a journalist and a serial killer.

Pink is a punk-poet. She’s young, beautiful, successful – but whom of her admirers should she marry? She makes a decision with the help of ...

Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and ...

Eternal daydreamer Mel can’t wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: Portugal. Things change when the ...

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt’s resignation ...

Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely by the private sector from now on. The ...

The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. ...

Three young women from the country go to Berlin to find true love.

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a ...

A slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother and daughter and her boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray.

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and, ...

Police officer Eva Meyer re-visits the orphanage where she grew up with the intent of unraveling her confused identity. Stasi archives reveal ...

Berlin Kreuzberg: Veit Bischoff keeps his head above water with a dry-cleaning business and reluctantly looks after his mentally disturbed mother ...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief ...

After escaping from youth-prison during a fire-alarm, young MAREK hitch-hikes into an unknown future. Suddenly there’s a new chance: He ...