Thorsten Merten

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province ...

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against ...

At the age of thirteen, Monette is already forced to realize that money plays an important role in life. As a result of the economic crisis, her ...

Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His ...

Katja Winzer lives with her eight-year-old son Tobias and her partner Jürgen in a small town near Bremerhaven. When Tobias does not come home one ...

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an ...

Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land. And ...

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

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it ...

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But ...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The ...

Nora is fourteen and lives with her parents in a quiet Berlin suburb. She is a romantic introvert who spends her day retreated into her own ...

Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt star in this drama about a family, trying to start a new life, which fails because of the mother’s mental ...

The Hotel Lunik is a refuge for a group of radical utopists. In the center of it all, are the Siblings Franz and Babette, who through their ...

They want to get away from each other, but they clasp each other even more firmly. They seek to save appearances at all force. The more they ...

Flower seller Leni Bluhm is kind-hearted, but illiterate and not very bright. That’s why the single mother can’t help her son Dominik ...

Annika’s life and experiences as a young woman include peculiar sex, an unfortunately cold best friend, a terrible tutor/boyfriend, and a ...

A metropolis sometime in the future. The entire underground rail system is in the hands of a totalitarian transport corporation. Herold used to ...

A woman travels by train. She is trapped between her memories of a love affair she had ended and her search for freedom. Her destiny depends on ...

Dito Tsintsadze’s drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a ...

In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break ...

Comedy drama about one of life’s perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the ...

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Although ...