Manfred Zapatka

In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.

Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole ...

When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem ...

Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius ...

Naive, talkative Hoffi and mouthy Lehmi are as different as can be. But this doesn’t dampen their friendship. When they wake up one morning ...

Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe ...

Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS ...

In a vision, the pianist Anna witnesses a murder.

While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar “Das ...

A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his ...

A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man’s lover is convicted on the basis of ...

Rudy actually wanted to become one of the greats as a boxer – but when he gets knocked out again and the money is so tight that he has to ...

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news ...

A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years ...

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager ...

The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property. ...

Ruth lies to her husband Karl about visiting her sister to sneak away with her lover Andreas. Meanwhile, Karl invites colleague Daniela over. ...

The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The ...

TV recording of a production of the play of the same name in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five ...

A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man.

Brussels, 1568: Under Spanish rule, Regent Margaret of Parma seeks leniency, but King Philip II sends the brutal Duke of Alba. Beloved noble ...

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. ...