Michael Gwisdek

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany’s biggest post-war stars.

Werner Blücher is what you’d call a real thoroughbred crook: not a second seems to go by without the cunning rascal coming up with an idea ...

It’s the 24th of December: The emergency department of a district hospital is preparing for a turbulent night: head physician Professor ...

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. ...

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

While out Nordic walking at night, Alma observes a young woman being choked and thrown into the Isar.

Marriage or not, that is the basic question! For Felix is marriage more like a game of roulette, but his wife Pola don’t agree with him and ...

From beautiful Bavaria to a backyard apartment in Berlin – Helga feels surrounded by all sorts of darklings. One night, Helga thinks she ...

Felix Rath is a small and lovable rogue . When he finds handwritten love letters from John F. Kennedy to his aunt Agnes in the estate of his ...

Die deutsche Fotojournalistin Katharina macht eine Reportage auf einer texanischen Ranch. Dabei verliebt sie sich – trotz aller Gegensätze ...

Marga Engel, the likeable and self-confident cook, has built up a new life for herself with a lot of energy and love: she works as a cook and ...

Lars and Annette want to get married. They invite their parents to a get-to-know-you weekend and want to use this opportunity to announce their plan.

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

Alex Kerner’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as ...

Marga Engel, a soulful woman, has been a member of the household of shrewd estate agent Siegfried Ohrmann for a year, where she is indispensable ...

Based on an autobiographic novel by Anita Lenz, the movie focuses on a apparently happy couple whose marriage turns out to be a big lie. Maja, ...

Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.

Marga Engel, a cook in a Bavarian country inn, has had a little house built with money she inherited. But the topping-out ceremony ends in ...

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

Opening in remote Kurdistan, Eine Hand Voll Gras introduces us to the impoverished family of 10-year-old Kendal (Arman Inci). In desperate need ...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the ...

In her mid-fifties , Elisabeth Hallstein found her marriage in tatters overnight : her husband Klaus left her with the family fortune. Elisabeth, ...

Nils, Tayfun and Caro were best friends as children. When love came along later, the friendship fell apart. Nils became a policeman and ...