Regina Ziegler

Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the decision of her life: should the widow of the world-famous and revered painter Max Liebermann continue to try to obtain an exit permit from the Nazis or, with the help of a resistance group, should she flee to Switzerland?

Tras un accidente María, la madre de la presentadora de televisión Lisa Wartberg, sufre de pérdida de memoria. Todo lo que puede recordar es que nunca ha estado en Nueva York. Sin más preámbulos, la anciana se sube de polizón a bordo de un crucero.

Martin, un padre de familia que perdió a su mujer y a su hijo durante unas vacaciones, recibe una llamada que aporta nuevas pistas sobre el caso y vuelve al mismo crucero para descubrir la verdad.

El policía forense Paul Herzfeld encuentra dentro de un cadáver una cápsula metálica que contiene una serie de dígitos y el nombre de su hija. Al llamarle para comprobar qué está pasando, esta le pide auxilio, pues ha sido raptada por un asesino en serie sediento de juegos macabros. Aquí empieza una carrera contrarreloj para Paul en afán de rescatar a su hija.

A documentary directed by Eric Friedler.

Gundula Bundschuh anhela unas vacaciones tranquilas bajo el sol de Mallorca. Sin embargo, la decisión de su suegra de invitar a toda la familia frustra sus planes.

Rebecca no cree en las relaciones de pareja. El día que su amigo, Johann, se casa y destierra la Rebecca a la mesa de los solteros, tienen una discusión y ella marcha de la boda a medio convite.

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.

Berlin sometime in the near future: Due to the demographic change, more and more old people are walking confused through the city. In order to avoid accidents and to protect the elderly, there are special task forces that pick up the pensioners and bring them back to the homes. The entrepreneur Sebastian von Werding recognized the potential of customers and developed a new business model.

Germany, mid-1950s. Dr. Gerd Vorweg, Lord Mayor of a district town, can be completely satisfied with his life. A few years after the end of the war, he helped his town to regain prosperity and prosperity by setting up a large textile company. He is popular with the locals and has a showcase marriage with his wife Katharina. When Katharina suddenly disappears without a trace, this idyll is suddenly destroyed.

La detective Pat Wilson sigue la pista de un estafador tan apuesto como escurridizo. Jan Hansen es el principal benefactor de un hospital de cirugía estética infantil y el sospechoso que busca Pat, además la detective tiene la corazonada de que se esconde tras un nuevo rostro.

Hilde Reimer is overjoyed when her three grown-up daughters and their partners move into the old family villa. The only thing that really bothers Hilde is that her three girls are still not married, despite having children and being very much in love.

Peter has a dream job. He’s a popular magician in a posh Prague nightclub, whose act draws more applause than the strippers. He’s got an eye-catching assistant who is ready and willing to cuddle his frayed nerves whenever necessary. But he’s also got Sylvia on his neck: a pert, scatterbrained sister who forgets that a toss in the hay may just be worth a wedding ring. Things take a turn for the better – or worse? – when he discovers he possesses extra - let’s say, supernatural – powers that enable him to see into the future, hear music by rubbing his finger over a CD, and God knows what. The problem? Peter can’t control anything any more like he used to – neither his magic act, nor his love life, nor his sister’s latest erotic fantasy.

Forma parte de la serie de televisión alemana "Cuentos eróticos". Se inspira en algunos sensuales poemas de una colección de poesía japonesa clásica: una joven novia, que ha sido abandonada en una carretera desolada, emprende un viaje de ensueño a las profundidades de la selva. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who deserted the family, a mentally disturbed mother and a violent brother, Carlo. Cora is from a wealthy middle-class family. Cora helps Maya to poison Carlo's friend Detlef, who is threatening to blackmail her. They then kill Carlo when he tries to rape Cora. Cora's family takes Maya in, and a happy time begins for her, particularly when they spend the summer in Italy.

As his wedding day approaches, the architect Yannis keeps having a recurring dream that leaves him shaken when he wakes up. The girl in his reverie is stunningly beautiful, a blithe spirit who taunts him with her smile, her shapely figure, her sensual persona - all that a man would want as a companion for life. The real world, however, offers him someone entirely different. Anna is sweet, attentive, down to earth - all that a man could wish for in a normal marriage. The right decision, it appears, is made. And then it happens: Yannis's dream comes true - on his wedding day.

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

Una gran estación de tren, podría estar en cualquier lugar de una gran ciudad. Esperando pasajeros, algunos se observan con curiosidad, otros están demasiado involucrados con sus pequeños problemas para prestar atención a cualquier otra cosa. Nuestro hombre, seguro de sí mismo, prácticamente desnuda a algunas de las mujeres presentes con los ojos, al menos mientras su esposa esté ausente, tratando de conseguirles un poco de café. Una belleza en azul devuelve su aspecto desafiante, apenas puede creer que sea verdad. Obviamente, es su día de suerte hoy. Cuando su esposa regresa, nuestro hombre ha experimentado algunas cosas asombrosas bajo la atenta mirada de sus compañeros de viaje. Y lo más probable es que sea mucho más reservado la próxima vez que vea a una hermosa rubia.

A young boy receives a mystical motorcycle that transforms into a woman when he rides it at night.

A short directed by Ken Russell.

A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One day, when its new owner is sleeping, the bird convinces a young boy to open the cage door. In return, it shows the boy a secret passage to get into the palace.

Dos mujeres escapan a las montañas donde disfrutan de la compañía del otro, aparentemente decepcionadas con sus parejas masculinas.

The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.

A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.

A crime comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.

A movie directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.

República de Weimar (1919-1933). Una vez terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), se produjeron en Alemania movimientos populares de protesta, al frente de los cuales se hallaban Rosa Luxemburgo y Karl Liebknecht, que fundaron un partido político revolucionario de carácter comunista: los espartaquistas.

A comedy directed by Wolf Gremm.

Territorio alemán, que ha pasado a Polonia tras la II Guerra Mundial. Emilia vive con su madre en condiciones penosas, aguardando el improbable regreso de su esposo, en paradero desconocido desde que servía en el ejército. Un destacamento de soldados estadounidenses investiga crímenes de guerra en la zona. Uno de ellos, Norman, ayuda a las dos mujeres, y enseguida se ve atraído por Emilia, que duda acerca de aventurarse en un romance con él.

The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.

An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.

Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.

Basada en la novela sobre Jacob Fabian, un publicista liberal de Berlin que fue testigo del desmoronamiento de la sociedad alemana durante los años 30.

The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.

In this sequel to Die Bettwurst, Dietmar and Luzi are a somewhat unorthodox couple, who live and fight with tremendous enthusiasm. The unusual nature of their liaison is signalled by the fact that Dietmar is bisexual and is completely unable to remain faithful to Luzi. Dietmar also has his own, personal dialect of German. Luzi, on the other hand, is coziness personified. No matter, in this film they get married at the Memorial Church in Berlin. Infuriated at his playing around, Luzi briefly splits up with him, but when her dog dies of poisoning, he is there to comfort her.

Anna and Edith are colleagues at an insurance company. Their male chef uses the women's business success to his own advances. Anna's husband would prefer her to be at home. Anna and Edith become a couple, but it doesn't end with a romantic rendez-vous. Together, and with the help of their female colleagues, they want to improve their work conditions.

A man lives a quiet live in a big house thanks to the wealth of his ancestors. Then a young woman arrives.

Concebido por una de las productoras más exitosas de Alemania, Regina Ziegler, EROTIC TALES es una serie de cortometrajes de prolíficos directores internacionales, entre ellos Bob Rafelson (EE. UU.), Paul Cox (Australia) y Nicholas Roeg (Reino Unido), que recibieron carta blanca para Crea películas que captan su visión de lo erótico en sus culturas.