Stephan Grossmann

A stage actor’s turn as GDR leader Erich Honecker inspires an outlandish scheme to keep his daughter safe during the Leipzig protests of 1989.

Lara was severely traumatised as a child and every day this trauma catches up with her. During a photo session, she falls in love with Conrad, a ...

Baby belly or scholarship in the US – in Ella’s Baby, the accidental pregnancy of a 16-year-old student turns the life of a patchwork ...

A shootout, five fatalities and he himself wounded – in the otherwise quiet station of the village policeman Frank Koops, things are just ...

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and ...

Gundula Bundschuh longs for a peaceful vacation under the sun of Mallorca. However, her mother-in-law’s decision to invite the entire ...

At the height of her career, the well-known comedy and TV star Gaby Köster suffers a serious stroke. However, the multi-award winning artist does ...

Anne Grainauer, a celebrated foreign correspondent, suddenly finds herself without a job after 24 years. The charming Gregor König offers some ...

Like every year, Gerald and Gundula celebrate Christmas with the whole family. But Christmas Eve turns into a disaster in which Gundula loses his ...

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media ...

Kishori, unmarried and mother to a daughter, and her sister Sonal live in a house in Berlin. The house and a cafe on the ground floor are led by ...

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for ...

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 ...

A few people decide to found their own little state n the middle of Germany, near Berlin…

“Great, Chinese!” is the first exuberant reaction of Brian, Lisa and Michael Brücker’s son, when the Chinese Wang family move ...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a ...

Now that we’re all living longer and “40 is the new 30,” why can’t 60 be the new 40? That’s what Louise and Frans think when they embark on bold ...

After some back and forth are graphic designers Jan Börner can finally bring himself and his wife Anne and their children Lisa and Luke a ...

How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart ...

Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany – until one day Ralf does not ...

Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.

In April 2009, Colonel Klein takes up his post as commander in Kunduz. The first soldiers move into the camp quarters. Among them are five young ...

Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. ...

When Tina discovers her current boyfriend, Frank, has been cheating on her, she rewrites his text to a competition in a male magazine as a story ...

Munich 1972: The Olympic Games are supposed to show the world a new, different Germany: the spirit of Munich – cosmopolitan, relaxed and ...

In 1967, fate on a North German dike miraculously brings together the Black Forest cuckoo clock maker Gottlieb Dobischauf with his chosen one ...

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by ...