Burkhard Althoff

Películas

Noche de fuego
Co-Producer
En un pueblo de montaña, donde crecen maíz y amapolas, las niñas usan cortes de pelo juveniles y tienen escondites bajo tierra para escapar de la amenaza de ser robadas. Ana y sus dos mejores amigas crecen juntas, afirmando los lazos de su amistad y descubriendo lo que significa ser mujer en un pueblo rural marcado por la violencia. Sus madres los entrenan para huir de la muerte, para escapar de quienes los convierten en esclavos o fantasmas. Crean su propio universo impenetrable, pero un día una de las chicas no llega a su escondite a tiempo.
Behind the Headlines
Commissioning Editor
Two years after the Panama Papers scandal, two investigative journalists at Germany’s largest newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, are ready with a series of new revelations while researchin the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia and a mysterious arms dealer linked to the Iranian nuclear missile programme. When a secret video gets leaked to them in 2019, the journalists have the opportunity to uncover a new scandal, today known as ‘Ibiza-Gate’, involving the Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.
80.000 Schnitzel
Producer
Battering, breading, frying – Berta has prepared thousands of schnitzels in her old cast-iron pan over the years. This 83-year-old landlady’s life on the family farm with adjoining guest house in the Upper Palatinate has been marked by constant hard work. A life that her granddaughters Monika and Hannah never wanted to lead. Now, the deeply indebted farm is on the brink of collapse. Despite having an academic background and contrary to her intentions, Monika, in her early thirties, decides to give up her modern life and save the family business. The two women join forces and give themselves a year to sort out the farm’s problems.
Born in Evin
Commissioning Editor
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
Many Happy Returns
Commissioning Editor
The story of a married but separated couple Matthias and Anna, although the wounds are still open, together planning the birthday-party of their son Lukas. When, at the end of the party, little guest Julius isn't picked up by his parents, a rapid chain of events take place.
Mülheim Texas – Helge Schneider hier und dort
Co-Producer
Helge Schneider's extraordinary talent is his ability to improvise which shows his unfailing creativity. "I paint the everyday-life in the brightest colors myself", he says about himself. Reality and fiction are tough to tell apart in his life. How does a man like him, who doesn't want his audience to know too much about himself, react on a documentary portraying him as a person?
September
Associate Producer
The death of a pet prompts the unraveling of a woman.
Gangsterläufer
Producer
A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and close to realizing his dream when he met the filmmaker Christian Stahl in the stairwell. Yehya wasn't just the nice boy from next door, he was also "the Boss of Sonnenallee" - one of the gangster runners of the Berlin borough of Neukölln. And gangster runners want to make it in the gangster world. In the eyes of the authorities, he is an "intensive offender"; in his own eyes, Yehya is "one of the top ten of Neukölln. I got my own prosecutor!"
El ladrón
Producer
Johannes Rettenberger es una persona introvertida que pasa sus últimas días en la cárcel preparándose como un gran atleta. Cuando sale se presenta a los diferentes campeonatos nacionales en su país, Austria, donde aparece como la gran revelación local. Una misteriosa fuerza, una gran capacidad de sacrificio parece que le empujan a ganar, pero de dónde proviene esa superación es un misterio. Mientras consigue pasar inadvertido en su reintregración en la sociedad, aprovechará sus cualidades para seguir haciendo lo que antaño, robar bancos. Una historia sentimental o la sombra del agente de la condicional serán algunos de los elementos que puedan truncar su camino. (FILMAFFINITY)
Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung
Producer
Frozen Angels
Line Producer
A scientific and social exploration of the future of human reproductive technology. In vitro fertilization, sperm banks' potential repercussions and the ethics of genetically engineering babies are among the issues examined.