Nico Hofmann

An intrepid team of 300 scientists spend a year in harsh conditions deep in the Arctic, on a pioneering expedition to secure vital answers to help us deal with climate change.

It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. The mission is to understand climate change, because the changes in the Arctic have an impact far beyond the region. The documentary provides spectacular close-ups of the MOSAiC expedition under the direction of the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and shows the world of the Arctic during the polar night, from which hardly any data and images existed until now. A scientific, logistical and also human adventure of a community of researchers and crew members who let themselves be frozen with the ship for a year in the ice desert near the North Pole in order to use the natural drift of the ice, captured for the audience in impressive images.

Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers too. Last but not least, his success was based on her strength. Hannelore Kohl lived in her husband's iron power system. When she fell seriously ill, Hannelore Kohl retreated more and more from the light of the public to a life in the dark. Until she put an end to her life on July 5, 2001. The documentation chronologically traces the life of Hannelore Kohl using archive recordings from over half a century of German history.

In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.

Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.

다른 사람을 웃게 만드는 특별한 재능을 가진 9살 한스 페테르는 이웃과 가족과 행복하게 산다. 어느날 어머니가 수술을 받게 되는데... 독일 유명 코미디언의 감동적인 어린 시절을 다룬 영화

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.

락뮤지션 프랭크 자파에 대한 다큐멘터리.

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

최고의 전성기를 누리며 부와 명예를 거머쥔 인기 코미디언 하페가 과로로 쓰러지면서 큰 수술을 받게 된다. 수술 후 갖게 된 긴 휴가가 낯설기만 한 그는 곧 무력감에 시달리게 되고 돌연 산티아고 순례길에 오르기로 결심한다. 첫 날부터 폭우와 허름한 숙소, 불면의 밤까지. 하페는 고통이 동행하는 여정을 시작하는데…

An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real life being purely coincidental).

전쟁, 비인간성, 폭력, 희생, 배신, 인류애 등 인간을 극한으로 몰아가는 상황에 대해 완벽히 재연해낸 드라마. [제 10회 서울 드라마 어워즈]

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

의술이라곤 어쩌다 마을에 들리는 이발사의 신뢰할 수 없는 치료가 전부였던 11세기의 영국 한 마을, 어린 롭은 엄마의 갑작스런 복통으로 도움을 요청하지만 끝내 엄마는 사망하고 맙니다. 자신에게 죽음이 임박했을 때를 아는 능력이 있음을 알게 되었지만, 구해낼 수 없었던 자신을 탓하며 이발사를 쫓아 떠납니다. 그리고 청년이 된 롭은 백내장에 걸린 이발사를 치료한 유태인들에게서 페르시아의 위대한 의사 'Ibn Sina'의 존재를 알게 되고, 다시금 그를 찾아 페르시아의 수도 Isfahan으로 향합니다. 당시 페르시아에는 크리스챤은 들어갈 수 없었기에 롭은 자신을 유태인 Jesse로 속여 입성하게 됩니다. 그 곳에서 운좋게 이븐 시나의 클래스에 들어가게 되고, 사막에서 죽은줄로만 알았던 운명의 여인 레베카와 재회합니다. 당시 페르시아는 모든 문물과 문화에 대해 개방하고 있었기에 다양한 종교가 공존하며, 학문의 자유를 통해 가장 앞선 의술을 가지고 있었던 거죠. 평안한 순간도 잠시, 그리고 이제 곧 그들의 운명을 다시 바꿔놓을 흑사병의 창궐과 셀주크와의 전투가 기다리고 있습니다. ...

The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoiselle Bertoux is delighted to stage “Romeo and Juliet” with real boys, both Hanni and her sister Nanni fall for their “Romeo,” Clyde.

After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.

북아프리카 전선에서 사막의 여우 같은 능수능란한 전술을 구사했던 롬멜은 동료들과 함께 히틀러의 광기 어린 통치로 인해 조국이 패망의 길로 치닫고 있음을 깨닫게 된다. 조국을 지킬 수 있는 방법은 오직 히틀러를 제거하는 것뿐임을 인식하고 암살 계획을 세우지만, 실패로 돌아가고, 이어 대대적인 반역자 색출 및 제거 작업이 뒤따르며 결국 반역자로 지목되는데...

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.

독일에서 기자로 활동하던 파울은 모스크바에 있는 타블로이드 잡지사에 새로이 부임하게 된다. 그의 새로운 아이디어와 능력으로 단 시간내에 회사에서 인정 받는 기자로 부각되고 러시아 정치운동가인 카트야를 만나 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 어느 날 카트야로부터 정치적인 기사를 실어 달라는 요청을 받아 자칫 민감할 수 있는 기사를 싣게 되고 그로 인해 상상치 못한 시련이 닥치게 된다. 러시아의 암울한 정치 세계를 파헤친 은 1999년 모스크바에서 벌어진 테러사건을 배경으로 한다. 자칫 너무 무거워질 수 있는 정치적인 소재를 훌륭한 스릴러로 변모시킨 은 정치를 소재로 한 그 어떤 작품에 견주어도 빠지지 않을 만큼 견고하고 훌륭하다. 특히 미스터리를 풀어가는 과정이나 간간이 나오는 액션 등 오락성에 있어서 관객들이 즐길 수 있는 많은 요소들이 갖춰져 있다. 할리우드 액션 스릴러와는 또 다른 재미를 선사할 은 이런 류의 작품을 즐기는 관객들에게 좋은 선물이 될 것이다. (2012년 제17회 부산국제영화제)

A drama centered around twins attending the same boarding school.

After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.

The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.

Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.

Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.

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 science fiction comedy directed by Nico Hofmann.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

Munich Film Festival 1985.