Matthias Fuchs

Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of space, with Bianca as the spirit of the rocket guiding the viewer around different aspects of rocket research. It is partly inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow and features dramatization of some selected scenes from the novel.

Clara y Hans, dos terroristas de izquierdas, huyen de la policía desde hace quince años. Cuando su hija Jeanne, una adolescente cada vez más rebelde, se enamora de un muchacho desconocido, se convierte en una amenaza más para la seguridad de sus padres.

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.

After the corpse of the programmer Klaus Pape was found neatly dismantled in a freezer, Commissioner Beate Stein starts the research that will lead her to both the red-light district and the better society of Hamburg.

Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods.

The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.

A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.

Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.

A couple of stories revolve around the last days of a stripclub called 'Mau Mau'.

A group of people meet on board an ambulance aircraft. They are all looking for a mysterious young man for different reasons. A "psychological-poetic" film that explores why people are puzzles to one another in the form of a game.

Año 1997. Una estación euroamericana consagrada a la investigación metereológica, con tan sólo dos tripulantes a bordo, está dando vueltas sobre la órbita terrestre. Max Marek, oficial científico, y Billy Hayes, oficial técnico, tienen el cometido de facilitar diagnósticos metereológicos con la máxima brevedad posible. No obstante, como los efectos de radiación resultan imprevisibles, científicos y políticos se ponen de acuerdo para suprimir la estación orbital metereológica. Marek parece conforme con esta decisión, ya que lleva tiempo temiendo los posibles efectos fatales de esta serie de ensayos en un espacio de ingravidez. Por su parte, Hayes se muestra disconforme ante esta decisión.... Debut en la realización de Roland Emmerich tras codirigir el cortometraje "Franzmann" en 1979. "1997: El principio del Arca de Noé" es un trabajo de estudiante que, dada su solidez y su gran acogida en Alemania, fue distribuida a nivel mundial.

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.

Una chica aspira a la normalidad de una vida burguesa mientras se entrega a los placeres sado-masoquistas.

Lola, una cantante de cabaret, seduce al señor von Bohm, un delegado de urbanismo. Al honrado funcionario se le plantea un grave conflicto moral cuando descubre que el cabaret es la tapadera de un burdel y las cantantes, prostitutas. Se inspira en 'El ángel azul' de Josef von Sternberg y forma parte de la trilogía de Fassbinder sobre la Alemania de la posguerra junto con 'El matrimonio de Maria Braun' y 'La ansiedad de Veronika Voss'.

“Death is my Trade” centers on the life of Rudolph Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz II-Birkenau for the majority of its existence. The main character's name in the film is Franz Lang. This name change was deliberate to ensure that the character is not automatically viewed as being some sort of villain or demon. Franz is an average German kid growing up during World War I. The film follows Franz as he grows up and becomes a hard, efficient, organized worker who eventually joins the National Socialist party in Germany. Impressionable young Franz takes orders as one of the utmost points of honor and duty, so when he is eventually asked by Heinrich Himmler to become commandant of the largest extermination camp built during WWII he barely hesitates to consider how heavy such a burden will be.

Un obrero de una planta química, inesperadamente, en un acto de rebelión, asesina al hijo de su jefe, suicidándose a continuación. Este hecho transformará por completo la vida de su mujer (Emma Küsters) quien, con la falta de apoyo que recibe de un hijo (dominado por su mujer) y de una hija (que sólo busca su propia gloria), iniciará una odisea personal en la que tendrá que enfrentarse a manipulaciones mediáticas e ideólogos políticos que buscan utilizarla para sus propios fines, ignorando la única razón que a ella le mueve: defender y devolver la dignidad a la memoria de su marido.

Hebrew leader Lot (Stewart Granger) leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera (Anouk Aimée). When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

Un sacerdote de Boston comienza a ascender en la jerarquía eclesiástica. Sin embargo, tendra que superar situaciones muy delicadas y peligrosas, como cuando se enfrenta a los nazis en Austria.

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.

A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann.

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowing that Dalli has added some embellishments to the text.

The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning.

Granny Jantzen lives with her three granddaughters Dick, Dalli and Angela on the small pony farm Immenhof in Northern Germany. Since the breeding of ponies isn′t profitable anymore, Granny Jantzen is struggling to keep the family property. During the summer break , young Ethelbert is spending his holiday with his cousins at Immenhof. While Angela has fallen in love with the wealthy land owner Jochen von Roth, Dick and Dalli have to put up with bigheaded urbanite Ethelbert.