Peter Kurth

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson’s sophisticated literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from.

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.

Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...

크리스마스를 앞두고, 하룻밤을 보낸 여자와 시골 여행에 나선 남자. 숲에서 살인 미수 현장을 목격하고 도망자 신세가 된다. 여자와도 헤어진 채, 아무도 모르는 촌구석에서 살인 미수범들에게 쫓기는데. 이런 죽이는 크리스마스는 처음이야.

결혼식 당일, 약혼녀의 전 여친 로빈을 맞닥뜨린 로이. 신부를 향해 경주하는 대결에서 이 여자한테 1등을 뺏기고, 약혼녀도 뺏긴다. 연인을 되찾을 방법은 하나. 유명한 독일 뉘르부르크링 트랙에서 레이스로 로빈을 이겨라.

Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more peaceful working life. But that is not how the cookie crumbles. The place is grey and bleak, it rains continuously, and the locals are not very enthusiastic in welcoming him. He also finds his new colleagues, Jenni Holstenbeck and Malte Schuster, somewhat suspect. And then things go from bad to worse. Mayor Hinrichs is found dead in his stables. Sörensen quickly realises that there is a lot of bad blood hidden behind the small town's tranquil facade and some well-founded reasons for anxiety...

1950년대, 남아프리카의 무법자 존 케페는 인종 차별 정책이 법으로 지정된 후 흑인 민중의 영웅이 된다. 케페는 백인 농부에게 약탈한 것들을 굶주린 지역 사회에 되돌려 주는 활약을 한다. 이를 통해 명성을 키우며 식민국을 위협한 케페의 활약을 그린 영화.

A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.

슈퍼마켓의 신입직원 크리스티안은 자상한 동료 브루노의 도움으로 새로운 세계에 적응해간다. 어느 날 동료인 마리온을 보고 한 눈에 반한 그는 커피 자판기 앞에서 서로를 알아가며 조금씩 가까워진다. 그러나 그와 그녀에게는 각각의 비밀이 있었는데…

Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earlier sends his new life spiraling out of control.

전쟁의 폐허에서 만나는 올가, 줄스, 헬무트의 강렬한 이야기. 올가가 생각하는 천국은 과연 그대로 있을까?

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusations and recriminations at each other, Anja allegedly surfaces in Spain, raising a strange suspicion against Lavinia.

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

Dark comedy about a german probation officer and some of his clients...

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

1898년 여름의 캐나다. 독일 이주자들이 마차에 짐을 싣고 북쪽으로 이동하고 있다. 최근 발견된 금광으로 향하는 골드 러쉬. 에밀리도 전 재산을 털어 합류한다. 앞을 내다볼 수 없는 험난한 여정에 사람들은 우왕좌왕하지만 돌아갈 곳이 없는 그녀는 중도에 포기할 수 없다. 광활한 스펙터클이 서부극 장르의 새로운 해석과 함께 신선하게 다가오는 작품. [17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제]

A german film about a rampage and the consequences in society.

막 교도소에서 출감한 트로얀. 그는 불빛이 명멸하는 밝은 도시를 뒤로 하고, 다시 범죄자의 삶으로 복귀한다. 오랜 동료들과 현금수송차량 탈취를 계획하는 그. 그러나 부패경찰 메이어가 이들을 미행하고, 이전 동료인 바우어는 부하들에게 트로얀의 제거를 지시한다. 불신과 배신, 폭력이 거미줄처럼 엮인 비열한 어둠의 세계. 이제 트로얀은 그 속에서 스스로를 지켜야만 한다.

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When the miller died, the three sons shared the inheritance. The oldest, Hermann, got the mill, the second, Hubert, the donkey, the third, Hans, the tomcat Minkus.

The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by the friesian princess Okka. In the very moment that the crew have mutinied and co-captain Michels is literally at the end of his tether, they discover on board their ramshackle old tub a most unique wonder weapon. Glory days are quickly revived - until the mighty Hanse consolidate their power and weaponry and go to war against the pirates. Störtebeker and Michels are forced to decide: To live as a farmer or to die as a pirate.

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.

A weekend in the Bavarian Alps. 25-year-old Hannes meets his father after 8 years of separation in a little mountain hut. By the influence of their very different girlfriends Ann and Lavinia, the stage-director-father and his actor-son cautiously try to make a new start. A bold venture, leading all of them to an abyss of unforeseen cruelty.

An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two young men from a small town, and a cuckolded policeman from the sticks all find their way to Berlin on May Day, where, in the district of Kreuzberg, emotions come to the boil every year.

An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.

A security guard catches a young woman stealing in a supermarket, but something about her makes him do something he has never done before.

Ben lives with his father in a dreary highrise housing estate, earning a bit of money delivering leaflets. The young man′s big dream is to one day write travel logs as a journalist. His unemployed father has been thrown hopelessly off balance with the death of his wife. Ben has since then been carrying all responsibility, taking care of the household, and making sure that all ends meet on his own. The financial pressures he increasingly stands under finally lead him to become criminal.

잃어버린 딸을 찾아 베를린을 정기적으로 방문하는 프랑수아즈. 청소년 보호소에 몸을 의탁하게 된 니나와 보호소에서 만난 토니. 세상과의 소통을 간절히 희망하는 소외된 세 여자는 불안정해 보이지만 친밀함으로 연결되어 있다. 우연히 프랑수아즈는 니나를 만나 그녀에게서 신기할 정도로 자신을 닮은 모습을 발견한다. 또한 잃어버린 딸의 어린시절 얼굴에 난 상처와 같은 상처를 니나의 얼굴에서 발견하고 새로운 희망을 찾는다.

동독의 열혈 공산당원이자 교사인 크리스티아네는 베를린 장벽 제거를 주장하는 시위대에서 아들이 끌려가는 모습을 보고 그 충격에 쓰러져 혼수 상태에 빠진다 . 그 후 8개월 후... 그녀는 사회주의 동독이 이미 사라진 통일 독일하에서 의식을 되찾게 된다.. 아들 알렉스는 기뻤지만 그 기쁨도 잠시, 엄마는 심장이 약해져 조금의 충격이라도 받으면 목숨이 위험하다는 의사의 경고를 받게 된다. 이때부터 엄마를 위한 아들의 지상최대 거짓말 프로젝트가 시작된다. 우선 엄마가 사는 아파트를 과거 동독 시절의 모습으로 되돌려 놓는 것은 물론, 쓰레기통을 뒤져가며 엄마가 찾는 구 동독 시절 오이피클 병을 구하고, 급기야는 엄마를 위해 동독의 발전과 서방의 붕괴를 담은 TV 뉴스까지 친구와 함께 제작하기에 이른다. 알렉스의 거짓말 시리즈가 매일 부풀어가는 무렵 엄마는 심장마비에 걸리게 되고 알렉스에게 소원을 부탁 하는데...