Peter Kurth

Music manager Eric quits his job and decides to become a mortician of all things

It’s a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents’ dilapidated ...

An East German community finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless marks during 1990s reunification, and take what they can carry.

Tammi is annoyed. Instead of traveling to Formentera and presenting her followers with dreamy photos, her mother Simone takes her to the middle ...

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust ...

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They ...

Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the ...

A man foils an attempted murder, then flees the crew of would-be killers along with their intended target as a woman he’s just met tries to ...

The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race ...

Not everyone deserves a second chance. The experienced investigator Wallat is sure of that – and certainly not the child murderer Hagenow, ...

Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That ...

Set in South Africa’s rural Great-Karoo region in the 1950s, this epic existential-adventure film chronicles the exploits of the outlaw ...

After the second world war two brothers, Theo and Karl Albrecht take over their mother’s company and change it into a highly profitable ...

Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He’s trained to stocks goods and ...

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the ...

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

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage ...

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed ...

Hotte is a petty criminal on probation. He has two teenage children, but he doesn’t want to know anything about them. When their ...

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind ...

Arne comes into the family of an old friend of his father as a foster child. He hopes to find closeness and security with Harald, his wife Elsa ...

Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions ...

13-year-old Radost lives alone with her father Bruno. But he is not like other fathers; he suffers from oligophrenia: he has roughly the mental ...

Twenty-three-year-old Lena lands a lead in Sartre’s “No Exit” while endlessly seeking love. Her call‐girl friend Becky convinces her to try ...

“In the Shadows” slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan ...

Ex-policeman Eddie is a dedicated private detective blessed with a healthy dose of audacity. His scruffy appearance and unconventional ...

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When the miller died, the three sons shared the inheritance. The oldest, Hermann, got the ...

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than ...

A weekend in the Bavarian Alps. 25-year-old Hannes meets his father after 8 years of separation in a little mountain hut. By the influence of ...

Rodolpho Aranda, head of an Argentinian chemical company, is found murdered in a Berlin bookshop: An elderly librarian named Valerie Steinfeld ...