Axel Prahl

Enero de 1990. Alemania está a punto de ser reunificada. El régimen moribundo de la RDA se vuelve contra su propio líder: el exjefe de Estado Erich Honecker quien enfrenta cargos de traición. Abandonado a su suerte, encontrará refugio en casa de un pastor protestante con quien confrontará moral y política.

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illness, his life gets into imbalance. Thereby Marko has only one goal: his studying son should have it better one day. Lawyer or judge, that would be something. The main thing is no work where you have to wear a name tag. The decease of an old female customer unexpectedly opens up a whole new business model for Marko. Unfortunately, he reckoned without the nosy neighbors. To make matters worse, his own son also finds out about it. Marko's house of cards threatens to collapse. Then he meets his idol Roland Kaiser at the bar.

Together with his students, Ralph is faced with an unpleasant task: The evening school is moving to an innovative educational center. Ralph thinks this is a bad joke.

La Agente 00-Cat, Marnie, es una divertida gata doméstica, muy querida por su familia, que jamás ha salido de su casa. Aunque es muy curiosa, lo único que conoce del mundo es lo que ha visto por televisión y cree que todas las historias que aparecen en la pantalla son reales. Admirando las grandes aventuras que les pasan a los protagonistas de las películas, Marnie desea vivir una propia y alejarse de su rutina: dormir, comer, volver a dormir.... Un día, el hermanastro de su dueña, que quiere deshacerse de Marnie, decide asignarle una importante misión, que la llevará al mundo exterior. Durante el viaje, la caja donde viajaba Marnie, se queda “accidentalmente” abandonada en medio de una carretera desierta. Aunque no conoce el mundo, Marnie se propone cumplir la misión.

Martin Behrens es un experto en Medio Oriente para la agencia de inteligencia alemana BND. Obtiene información que conduce a un ataque con aviones no tripulados de EE. UU. Contra un terrorista buscado en Zahiristán. Unos días más tarde, hay un ataque terrorista contra un restaurante: el video que reclama responsabilidad lo llama venganza por el ataque con aviones no tripulados. La periodista independiente Aurice, con quien Martin estaba teniendo una aventura, está entre las víctimas: estaba investigando la corrupción en el corazón del BND. Martin pronto debe darse cuenta de que en un mundo donde las grandes corporaciones se benefician de los tratos de armas y de los contratos de seguridad nacional, el bien y el mal a veces son difíciles de distinguir.

The whole country wants an end of the drought. Maren has even more reason to wish for rain, her austere father,the rich hay farmer Iven, will approve her marriage with her beloved Andrees only if the rain falls before the next sunset.

The worn-out ex-journalist Ralph has to work as a substitute teacher at an evening school and in the end learns more than his protegees.

Sharky no puede leer ni escribir, ni siquiera contar correctamente. Pero esas cosas no son importantes para "El terror de los mares" y están compensados por un gran ego. Con Mikey, un joven normal cuya ordenada vida ha estallado debido a la espontaneidad de Sharky, y Bonnie, una problemática chica que tiende a asumir el mando en cada situación para gran consternación de Sharky, disfrutarán de aventuras marineras de saqueo, pillaje y piratería. Lo que comienza como una alianza pura de conveniencia, se convertirá en una exploración de temas como la amistad, la equidad, la lealtad, la tolerancia y lo que significa ser un héroe.

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

La pequeña bruja sólo tiene 127 años, y es demasiado joven para poder acudir a la asamblea nacional de brujas. Además ella no quiere ser simplemente una bruja, ¡quiere ser la mejor de las brujas! Esta decisión le traerá más de un problema en su mundo mágico.

On the North Sea coast, jack of all trades Knud tries his hand at crab fishing, betting on sports and small-time cons. He’s just trying to score an award for his Shanty Choir, which has seen better days, when his son Lenny shows up for the first time in a decade.

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

After eight years Udo Lindenberg started his comeback in early 2016 with the new album "Stärker als die Zeit". After the release of his new album the panic rocker No. 1 went on a big tour, where he - among other locations - also stopped in Leipzig. The live recording “Stärker als die Zeit - Live” documents this gigantic show. The recording from Leipzig is a colorful mix of Udo classics and hits from his new album, including "Cello", "Wozu sind Kriege da", "Der Greis ist heiß", "Ich mach mein Ding" and "Durch die schweren Zeiten". At least as impressive as the tracklist is the list of guest singers who were at Udo's side during the various appearances. Participants include Clueso, Helge Schneider, Till Brönner and Stefanie Heinzmann, Gentleman, Daniel Wirtz and Ole Feddersen, Axel Prahl, Otto Waalkes, Johannes Oerding, Jan Delay, Stefan Raab, Klaus Doldinger, Adel Tawil, Max Herre, Bülent Ceylan and many more.

Un día antes de la gran fiesta de cumpleaños de Waldemars, la emoción aumentó en Mullewapp. Waldemar puede retener el pastel de fresa cremoso de chocolate que es para celebrarlo, para comer ya, pero luego apareció inesperadamente caminando por la tranquila granja apenas. La grosera cerda de jabalí Horst y su pandilla están atentos a las golosinas de cumpleaños y toman a los residentes de Mollywoop acaparando. Los tres amigos Waldemar, Franz von Hahn y Johnny Mauser adivinaron de inmediato: ¡Aquí está mal! Pero son engañados por el ventoso jefe de jabalí Horst y con un truco los envía involuntariamente en un recorrido en bicicleta particularmente aventurero. ¿Cómo pueden liberar ahora su amado hogar solo por los invasores?

El más grande sueño de Trenk es convertirse en caballero. Un deseo complicado, ya que pertenece a una familia campesina que no tiene mucho dinero. Armado de valentía y determinación, Trenk y su cerdito Piggeldy viajan al castillo de Hohenlob, donde conocen a Sir Hans y a su hija Thekla. Con ayuda de sus nuevos amigos, el pequeño Trenk aprenderá a ser un caballero.

Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller gradually increases its level and excitement.

KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man (Axel Prahl), who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to keep the outside world at a distance, he gets more and more entangled in his own web of fear and paranoia: those outside know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth, and they are inevitably going to get him ...

The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life.

After a series of catastrophically failed marriages, Apple is single again. Blame on Apple's attachment is in her opinion, her mother Ingrid. Because this Apple has punished not only with her hippie name, but was in every way a raven mother. When Ingrid spends an All Inclusive vacation in Spain, her mother and daughter are confronted with a dramatic event from their past.

After 16 years in jail is Harms attracted by the big bucks: a raid on the central bank, 70 to 100 millions in cash. A former staff member can arrange access to the bank. However, the team needs to be careful - too many bills, too many problems. One third of the money should suffice but Harms underestimated the deadly power of greed. The project gets out of control...

The North Sea, the largest sea on our doorstep, has many faces: wide tidal environments, high dunes, flat holms and rugged coastlines. Its beaches attract every season not only tourists but also countless seals. And beneath the cool sea surface hides a varied and fascinating underwater world: whether majestic basking before the chalk cliffs of Dover or combative gray seals on the beach of Helgoland, whether mighty squid on the Dutch Oosterschelde, or creepy Greenland shark in the Fjords of Norway.

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.

Mina, a poor girl with a big heart sees stars falling from the sky and turning into Gold Talers before they land. With that money the girl can ask the king to let her parents go home.

A teacher's colleague is critically wounded by a student. Traumatized, she attempts to cope.

Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to communicate without auxiliary means, even across great distances. Their love is so great that Eva even follows her boyfriend into heroin addiction. But now this has to come to an end: Eva is pregnant and the two of them plan to go cold turkey in the solitude of New Zealand.

El joven proefsor Konrad Koch es elegido para enseñar inglés en una regia y disciplinada escuela alemana de finales del siglo XIX. El reformador director de la institución Von Merfeld ha contratado a Koch como uno de los primeros profesores de inglés dentro de la caduca institución, con el fin de introducir un nuevo vigor en ella. Pronto, Koch se da cuenta de lo necesario que es introducir muchas otras reformas.

A nine-year-old girl who has just moved with her parents to Hamburg, Germany, is desperate for finding a best friend. The daughter of a Brazilian father and German mother, Lola is a little girl who dreams she's a rock star, but mostly dreams of having a best friend.

It is the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt, in the middle of Holstein Switzerland, directly on the Baltic Sea. The 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who calls himself Roddy Dangerblood, lives with his elderly parents in a farmhouse, is trained as a potter and has discovered for himself the punk that has made its way into Schmalenstedt with some delay.

Berlín 36 es una película alemana de 2009 que cuenta el destino de la atleta judía Gretel Bergmann en los Juegos Olímpicos de verano de 1936. Fue reemplazada por el régimen nazi por un atleta que más tarde se descubrió que era un hombre. La película se basa en una historia real y se estrenó en Alemania el 10 de septiembre de 2009.

Based on one of the most spectacular series of bank robberies in Germany, Zwölf Winter tells the story of Klaus and Mike, two criminals who became friends in prison. When they happen to meet each other again after they have been released they begin to plan the perfect bank robbery, and it seems to work. For twelve years the two keep on robbing banks, always in winter. The police are in the dark for years. But they won't stick to their guns...

Sommersonntag (Summer Sunday) is the dramatic story of Bruno Hansen, a bridge guard of a huge lift bridge in Hamburg. As his 7-year old deaf-mute son climbs down into the restricted area of the lifting equipment while a train is approaching, he has to decide whether to sacrifice his son or to let the fully occupied train drown in the river.

What child doesn’t dream of finding some secret door to the past! For Stella, a sassy 10-year-old, this dream comes true when she finds a magic wardrobe that transports her back to the early 20th century. There she must find a precious stone, the “Star of the Orient”, and ward off criminals who also want the treasure. Both haunting in its dream-like atmosphere and rousing through its spirited young protagonists, the film sweeps youngsters into a magical story of friendship and discovery.

El Baron Manfred Von Richthofen es el más temido y celebrado piloto de la fuerza aérea alemana en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Para él y sus compañeros, los combates aéreos son eventos de naturaleza deportiva, desafíos tecnicos y actos honorables, ignorando las terribles consecuencias de la guerra. Pero después de enamorarse de la nurse Kate, Manfred se da cuenta de que el sólo es usado como medios de propaganda. Atrapado entre su rechazo a la guerra y su responsabilidad hacia sus compañeros de escuadrón, von Richthofen sale a volar de nuevo.

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.

Berlín, año 1940. El padre de Michael es deportado a un campo de concentración donde muere. Tres años más tarde, Michael, de 10 años, y su madre Anna deciden huir de su hogar con papeles e identidades falsas. Pero alguien les descubre…

Sprotte is about 12 years old and has a "gang" with her three friends Frieda, Melanie and Trude. Together the girls take Care of Sprottes grandmothers chickens. The new girl in School, Wilma, wishes to join the group, which Melanie is very unhappy about, and on top of all of that they have an on going revalisasion with a group of boys. Sprottes grandmother is planning on slaughtering the chickens! Will the Wild Chicks put Down their war with the boys? And Will they be able to save the chicken?

Verano en Berlín. Katrin y Nike son dos amigas que viven en una casa antigua de lo que fue Berlín Este. El piso de Nike tiene un balcón, donde pasa noches enteras charlando con Katrin, que vive con su hijo en la planta baja. Suspendidas entre el cielo y la tierra, se instalan en el balcón y observan la existencia diversa y compleja de los hombres, reflexionando acerca de sus propias vidas y de sus deseos.

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.

Robert, a recently widowed engineer from Cologne, decides to change his life. He invests all he has in a new business in Southeast Germany - a network of coin operated telescopes, hoping to profit from the breathtaking vistas of the Saxon "Switzerland" area of the East. Once in that region, Robert meets Christiane, who uncanningly resembles his deceased wife. Christiane is also at a crossroads. She has a secret plan to recover something of great value lost after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Passport Forger Ricki must appease a principal Rickis parolee sister Jenny and the German-Russian Mitja should help. But everything turns out differently: The outsider Jenny and Mitja discover their common ground - and a lot more ... The delicate and excellently staffed love story gets under your skin.

A financially devastated German town receives an encouraging boost with the arrival of a popular soccer star, though a heated love triangle threatens to overshadow the good vibes in this sexually liberated comedy from filmmaker Norbert Baumgarten.

Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of military service, doesn't have many friends and leads a boring life, until he meets Isabella. The fascinating girl soon becomes his best friend, but Lukas learns she has a sexual relationship to her stepfather. Thus, he is obsessed with the idea of delivering Isabella by killing the man..

Varsovia, 1939. El pianista polaco de origen judío Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) interpreta un tema de Chopin en la radio nacional de Polonia mientras la aviación alemana bombardea la capital. El régimen nazi ha invadido el país, y como hace en otros países invadidos, lleva a cabo la misma política con respecto a los judíos. Así Szpilman y toda su familia -sus padres, su hermano y sus dos hermanas- se ven obligados a dejar su casa y todo lo que les pertenece para trasladarse con miles de personas de origen judío al ghetto de Varsovia. Mientras Wladyslaw trabaja como pianista en un restaurante propiedad de un judío que colabora con los nazis, su hermano Henryk (Ed Stoppard) prefiere luchar contra los nazis. Pero tres años más tarde, los habitantes del ghetto son trasladados en trenes hacia campos de concentración.

Chris es locutor de radio y está casado en segundas nupcias con Katrin. Uwe, propietario de un pequeño restaurante al paso está casado con Ellen. Los cuatro rondan la cuarentena y viven en una ciudad tan insulsa como deprimente, Frankfurt-Oder, en la antigua Alemania Democrática. Chris es íntimo amigo de Uwe. Y Katrin, amiga íntima de Ellen. Lo cual no impide que un buen día Chris y Ellen comiencen una aventura sentimental que, al ser descubierta, hará saltar por los aires el aparentemente perfecto universo pequeño burgués de las dos parejas. Pero, al mismo tiempo, este hecho invitará a los cuatro a replantearse sus existencias, a analizar los aciertos y los errores del pasado, a aprender a valorar más lo que se tiene que lo que se desea, a descubrir los pequeños y sencillos placeres cotidianos… en una palabra, a volver a vivir. Y al final resulta que Frankfurt-Oder no era una ciudad tan deprimente y que una simple gaita puede cambiarlo todo.

Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films can also be wild, new, modern, funny, political and entertaining. And all that in 80 minutes. 12 young German filmmakers come together, inspire exciting young actors and go: have an idea and simply film it. Just do it and be independent.

A female teenager witnesses a murder in a desolate high density housing area on the outskirts of Berlin and is henceforth in danger.

Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.