Matthias Habich

Summer, 1918. Two young women, Luise and Elsa live alone on a secluded farm in Alsace. As young German deserter Hermann comes along, a new relationship forms between the three, filled with love, competition and hate.

When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.

The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation.

En plena Edad Media, el rebelde Goldmundo es enviado a un monasterio por orden de su padre. Allí el joven conocerá a Narciso, un novicio inteligente, erudito y distante, dedicado por completo a la vida ascética. A partir de su encuentro, nacerá entre ambos una amistad única, eterna, puesta a prueba por el destino cuando éste tienda a separar sus caminos por formas de vidas opuestas.

Flo tiene 12 años y Lassie es su mejor amiga. Desde el instante en que tiene memoria, y su leal can han vivido en un pequeño pueblo sosegado en el sur de Alemania. Un día, no obstante, el padre de Florian, Andreas, pierde su trabajo, lo que quiere decir que la familia debe mudarse a un piso más pequeño, donde Lassie ya no puede vivir pues no se dejan perros allá. Prácticamente le rompe el corazón a Flo.

25 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the USA at the time, she is now returning and wants to live in the former common house, which puts the relationship between Cornelius and Frank to the test.

Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel there.

Clare es una fotógrafa australiana que se encuentra de vacaciones en Berlín. Allí conoce a Andi, un joven carismático que pronto se gana la atención de la chica. La atracción entre ambos es instantánea y terminan pasando la noche juntos. Sin embargo, Clare se despierta a la mañana siguiente sola y atrapada en el apartamento de Andi.

After getting his cancer diagnosis, Holm decides to die in Switzerland. With a last big appearance he wants to say goodbye to his family. Holm invites family members and close friends to a dinner to review his successful life. But the evening is not a wistful-emotional family reunion, but a settlement with the head of the family. Old wounds break open, long kept secrets come to light, the different views of the people, the others and the life leads to hard argument and to many a surprise.

Cuando Paul Kromberger y su hija Sophie descubren por Internet la foto de una cantante de ópera estadounidense que es clavada a Evelyn, padre e hija se van a estremecer. Evelyn era la difunta mujer de Paul y la madre de Sophie. Sophie decide viajar a Nueva York para encontrar a la cantante, cuyo nombre es Caterina Fabiani. Tratará de buscar respuestas a este misterioso parecido.

Six numbers in the lottery! If that's not good luck for Georg Freudenreich and fellow winner and brother-in-law Heinrich. This distracts from the feelings Heinrich has suppressed all his life. He has fallen in love with Edward. But now, at over 70, how is he supposed to live a love he has always denied himself?

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, conflicts and problems. What unites them is the longing for closeness - for a loving, lovable partner and the somewhat unusual way they have chosen to escape their loneliness: a speed dating. So you dare to an event in which each face a man and a woman and only have seven minutes to get to know each other and open courageously in ever new constellations to a foreign counterpart.

Rosemarie es una joven mujer trabajadora que vive en un pequeño pueblo inglés en los años 50. Junto con su padre, abandonó Austria durante la guerra para escapar de la opresión de los nazis y, desde entonces, a pesar de la pobreza y la soledad en la que está viviendo, Rosemarie mantiene la fe en que vendrán días mejores. Cuando conoce a Antón, uno de los amigos de su padre, inmediatamente cae enamorada y comienza a creer que su suerte puede estar cambiando.

Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four of the girls and the organist David.Sie were on a hike in a cave of the Ith - the fabled mountain, in which 700 years ago the Pied Piper is said to have led the children. Seeking help, Johanna turns to her ex-boyfriend Jan Faber, head of the police station in Hameln.

Cuando Bertha muere, su nieta Iris hereda su casa y se encuentra nuevamente en la casa donde ella y su prima solían jugar a disfrazarse en las vacaciones de verano. Mientras pasea de una habitación a otra, recorre los recuerdos y las cosas que había olvidado: ¿qué hizo realmente su abuelo antes de ir a la guerra? ¿De qué hombres estaban enamoradas las hijas de Bertha?

After the death of his wife, respected writer Henrik Agdestein won't let anyone get close to him, neither the kind-hearted teacher Sonja nor the feisty policewoman Laura. And certainly not top politician Leif, whose homosexuality he disapproves of.

More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and must discover that she lives as a nun in a Protestant monastery. At first she refuses to contact him, the pain is too deep that he has not been alive throughout the years. Only when she learns the true reason for his supposed silence does she let Harry back into her life. With the memory of the past times, the two also return to the old feelings. Elly gets into a deep moral conflict

Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to the country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in the ruins of an old church. A once-renowned Swiss director is using this week of rehearsals to find the lead for this production of “Hamlet”. The director is staying privately at the home of an old woman, but the actors are being put up at a run-down hotel with very thin walls.

Reinhold y Günther Messner decidieron escalar la cara Rupal de la montaña Nanga Parbat, en Pakistán, en los años 70. En el camino de vuelta Günther sufre un accidente y muere, su hermano Reinhold es acusado de asesinarlo.

A 24 hours ceasefire. The situation in Falluja is devastating- no food, no medications, no help. A group of five people sets out with the plan to help- they end up fighting for the lives of the helpless and wounded and eventually - their own.

Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is not quite over.

A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.

Alemania después de la II Guerra Mundial. Michael Berg (David Kross), un chico de 15 años, pierde el conocimiento mientras regresa del colegio. Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), una mujer seria y reservada que le dobla la edad, lo recoge y lo lleva a su casa. Entre ambos surge un apasionado y secreto idilio que se ve interrumpido por la misteriosa desaparición de Hanna. Ocho años más tarde, siendo estudiante de Derecho, Michael vuelve a verla, pero en una situación que nunca hubiera podido imaginar.

Caótica Ana es la historia-viaje de Ana durante cuatro años de su vida, de los 18 a los 22. Una cuenta atrás, 10, 9, 8, 7… hasta el 0, como en la hipnosis, a través de la cual Ana comprueba que no vive sola, que su existencia parece la continuación de otras vidas de mujeres jóvenes que murieron de forma trágica y que habitan en el abismo de su memoria inconsciente. Ese es su caos.

Catherine y su esposo Roberto, cazador, viven en Tanzania, en Africa Oriental. A ella le desagrada la caza, pero los safaris que organiza Roberto para sus ricos clientes les permiten vivir holgadamente. Un día él es atacado por un leopardo y resulta gravemente herido. Ante la necesidad de ser evacuado urgentemente, Catherina contacta con Gordon Coburn, un piloto de una avioneta que se encuentra cerca de la zona, y consiguen salvar a su marido. La personalidad arrolladora del piloto, un hombre enigmático y de carácter posesivo, despierta en Catherina una incontrolada pasión que le impulsa a abandonar a su marido para vivir una nueva vida con su amante.

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.

Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.

Berlín, abril de 1945. En las calles de Berlín se libra una encarnizada batalla. Hitler y sus fieles se han atrincherado en un búnker. Entre ellos se encuentra Traudl Junge, la secretaria personal del Führer. En el exterior, la situación se recrudece. A pesar de que Berlín ya no puede resistir más, Hitler se niega a abandonar la ciudad y, acompañado de Eva Braun, prepara su despedida.

Calígula está trastornado. Obsesionado con una supuesta conspiración de su hermano contra él, ordena que lo maten y condena a Agripina al exilio en una isla remota, muy lejos de su hijo Nerón. Asesinado por sus generales, el emperador Calígula es sustituido por Claudius, cuyo objetivo será que Nerón gobierne el imperio romano.

Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.

Regina, de cinco años, empieza una nueva vida junto a sus padres en una destartalada granja de Kenia, donde han llegado huyendo del nazismo alemán. La niña pronto se adapta a las nuevas condiciones de vida, pero a sus padres les cuesta más.

Mientras los ejércitos de Alemania y la Unión Soviética luchan encarnizadamente y el mundo espera con ansiedad el desenlace de la batalla de Stalingrado, un francotirador ruso, Vassili Zaitsev, persevera en la empresa de eliminar a sus enemigos uno por uno. Modesto y reservado, Vassili es un hombre corriente que simplemente cumple con su deber con una destreza extraordinaria. Danilov -el oficial encargado de la propaganda soviética- se da cuenta del enorme valor de este antiguo campesino, y convierte al sencillo pastor de los Urales en un héroe nacional

Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld has betrayed him and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed and desperate, he rents a hotel room on the 32nd floor. He writes a farewell letter to his wife and opens the window to jump into the depths. A young woman is standing on the window sill next door, apparently up to the same thing. With the promise to spend the last evening of the year with her, he manages to save her and himself for the time being. This is the beginning of a strange, romantic, comical story that takes place on a single New Year's Eve and in which two people change their lives

The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about.

A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass.

The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and her mother Ida. She spends half a year with each one alternately. But neither parent can provide Maisie with the warmth and affection she so desperately needs.

Una niña llamada Garance es secuestrada y asesinada. Casi veinte años después del trágico suceso, sus padres se han separado, y la madre se ha casando con otro hombre y ha tenido otra hija. Sin embargo, no ha podido superar el dolor y los recuerdos la atormentan constantemente. Un día, los testigos de la desaparición de Garance empiezan a ser brutalmente asesinados.

The story tells of a love which after ten years is beginning to grow old, and of the attempt to turn the imminent end into a new beginning. After ten years of eventful relationship, man and woman have finally decided to say yes to each other in an abandoned railway station on the edge of town. It is the first evening in their new home. Everything is temporary, nothing is finished. The furniture has not yet been delivered, the heating is not functioning yet, the telephone is not connected, neither is the television. They are inescapably confronted with their own selves and with each other. And although, at least at the beginning, they fervently strive for love and harmony, the past catches up with them. When he, as always, seeks to withdraw by taking flight, he discovers that his key does not fit. He is at her mercy. Ruthlessly, they call each other to account.

El 15 de Abril de 1945 partió desde el puerto noruego de Kristiansand submarino alemán de transporte U-234, de la clase XB, rumbo a Japón, bajo ordenes expresas del Jefe de la Gestapo, Heinrich Müller, y del propio Adolf Hitler. El 13 de mayo del mismo año el submarino alemán decidió rendirse. Por la zona del Atlántico en que se encontraba debía entregarse a los canadienses. Inexplicablemente, sin embargo, el capitán del navío decidió engañar a los canadienses dando sucesivas falsas posiciones, mientras se acercaba al puerto de Portsmouth (USA). El 16 de mayo de 1945 el destructor americano "USS Sutton" tomó el control del U-234 que sería entregado a las autoridades de Portsmouth el 19 de mayo de 1945.

In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris.

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.

Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.

Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her trust as she regains her health. However, he soon discovers she's wanted by the law, and circumstances become difficult for him as he tries to hide her from the authorities.

A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.

A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becomes obsessed with finding out more information about him.

Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where the question concerning happiness is taken very seriously. A man comes and is drawn into a confusing game. A child an a mysterious woman play an important role in the game. He is mistaken for someone else and gradually sees the possibility of leaving his former life behind and finding happiness on the island. Is this only an illusion which should be rejected?

Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Un comando de la Legión Extranjera tiene que transportar un cargamento de lingotes de oro al Norte de África para evitar que caigan en manos de los alemanes. Pero, tras una serie de peripecias y escaramuzas con el enemigo, uno de los soldados decide quedarse con el oro.

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.

The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years.

Latvia, 1919: final de la guerra civil rusa. Una joven aristócrata se enamora de un oficial prusiano sexualmente reprimido. Al ser rechazada, la joven se hunde en la depresión, la promiscuidad y la colaboración revolucionaria. (FILMAFFINITY)

The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong side of the law.