Peter Schneider

Siblings Rose and Heinrich navigate a world that has lost its sense of togetherness and humanity.

After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of ...

On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal ...

It’s 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker ...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is ...

Andi’s life is a constant battle for his home, his three children and the woman he still loves. He only has two weeks to pay her back the ...

Summer 1990, Germany in the celebratory frenzy of reunification: In Brandenburg, Andy’s youth clique uses the title win at the World Cup ...

The Graz chief investigator Sascha Bergmann and his colleague Eva Merz from the Spusi try to combine the official with the romantic, but ...

In Hamburg’s Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to ...

After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the ...

Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call ...

“Kruso” tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized ...

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a ...

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city – happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes ...

Inge and Ludwig are full-time farmers in the Black Forest, with dairy cows and a dairy. Everything organic, all the highest quality. Despite the ...

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 ...

A supermarket operator from Ahlbeck (Usedom) is found dead, naked, in the spa gardens of neighboring Swinemünde in Poland. Inspector Julia Thiel ...

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming ...

Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow is released from prison after several years in prison. She had once shot her husband with her daughter ...

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters — one who became his wife, and the other, his ...

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married ...

Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for ...

Monika, 20, nearsighted and dependent on her family, fails a risky eye laser operation and loses her sight. Her mother, Birgit, overwhelmed, ...

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to ...