Peter Schneider

On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads them to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief Elsa Wilbrodt put them on the cover of Sibylle, the fashion magazine of the GDR. In the Berlin underground scene she made the acquaintance of the gay fashion designer Rudi and the photographer Coyote. Suzie must decide if she's brave enough to leave the old strands behind forever.

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep going.

Andi's life is a constant battle for his home, his three children and the woman he still loves. He only has two weeks to pay her back the borrowed 5,000 EUR. When he loses his job, an amateur boxing tournament looks like the only solution.

During her internship in a remote clinic in the Allgäu region, the young psychology student Lea immerses herself in a mysterious world of unorthodox therapy methods and demonic traditions.

In Hamburg's Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to discover abandoned places first. The investigators suspect an act of revenge by a competitor.

After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the pressure on them, Ursel and Abel decide to kill him.

아홉 살 베니가 사랑을 찾아가는 거친 여정. 길들지 않은 그녀의 에너지는 주변에 있는 모든 사람을 절망에 빠뜨린다. 베니는 끝없이 집으로 돌아가고 싶다. 그러나 베니의 소망은 허락되지 않는다.

Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the children's intensive care unit.

동독의 주요 음악예술가 제라드 “군디” 군더만의 삶을 감성적이면서도 애정과 유머를 갖고 살펴본다. 1998년 43세의 나이로 세상을 떠난 그는 꿈꾸고, 희망하며, 사랑하고, 투쟁한다. 스파이를 당하는 스파이, 선을 모르며 선을 실천하는 자. 음악영화이자 사랑 이야기인 이 영화는 죄책감과 얽힘, 억압과 대립에 관한 드라마이다.​

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing is how it used to be. The whole family has to struggle with the anger and sorrow of the people around them. They need to deal with the assassination and the circumstances, how it could come to the disaster out of nowhere.

Inge and Ludwig are full-time farmers in the Black Forest, with dairy cows and a dairy. Everything organic, all the highest quality. Despite the hard work, it is a fulfilling life. Would not it be the financial situation. As much as the two work, the debts devour them, the farm is endangered. Inge decides to look for a part-time job. When the opportunity arises to start with an escort service, she gets involved. And the plan works. But the relationship is put to the test when one of Inge's clients falls in love with her and the situation escalates.

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.

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

다니는 마약 중독자가 된 마크를 오래전 극장이었던 곳에서 찾아 영화를 보고 음악을 들으며 같이 꿈을 꾸던 그 시절을 회상한다. 베를린 장벽이 무너지고 통일이 되자 다니, 리코, 마크, 파울 4명의 친구들은 새로운 삶을 찾아 테크노 나이트클럽을 연다. 그러나 그들은 계속 문제에 부닥친다.

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.

Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow is released from prison after several years in prison. She had once shot her husband with her daughter Julia's service weapon because he had slept with another woman. To the surprise of her probation officer and her daughter, she does not move into a new apartment in Rostock as planned, but returns to her home in Usedom in the "Mörderhus". Not only to the displeasure of her daughter, who has not yet been able to forgive her mother for what she did. Karin has to put up with derogatory looks and comments from the islanders. She herself sees Usedom as a second chance for her life and soon has a good connection to her environmentally conscious granddaughter Sophie, who supports her with legal tips during a protest. Karin also finds work in a bison enclosure, takes care of the animals and controls entry. Julia has to clear up the death of Thomas Krenzlin. The young paraplegic man is found drowned in the water.

몰락한 귀족집안의 두 딸 카롤린과 샬롯은 서로를 자신처럼 아끼는 둘도 없는 자매다. 쓰러져 가는 가문을 살리기 위해 17세의 어린 나이에 부유한 귀족의 아내가 된 장녀 카롤린은 원치 않았던 결혼이었음에도 불구하고 어머니와 샬롯을 위해 모든 걸 이겨낸다. 그런 언니의 모습을 안타깝게 지켜보던 동생 샬롯은 어느 날, 가난하지만 장래가 촉망되는 시인 프리드리히 쉴러를 운명처럼 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 그러던 중 결혼 승낙을 받기 위해 노력하던 두 사람 앞에 언니 카롤린이 나타나면서 세 사람의 운명은 예측할 수 없는 길을 향해 흘러가는데...

Short film about family relations.

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.

Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.

David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.

베를린에서 활동하는 언더그라운드 테크노 DJ이자 작곡자인 마틴(DJ 이카루스)은 매니저이자 여자친구인 마틸드와 함께 전세계의 클럽을 돌며 공연 중이고 그의 커리어에서 가장 큰 규모의 앨범을 발매하기 직전이다. 그러나 이 모든 계획은 그가 공연이 끝난 뒤 약에 중독되어 정신과 병동 응급실로 실려가면서 위기에 처한다.

혁명을 꿈꾸었던 테러리스트 현대사를 뒤흔든 테러리스트, 그들의 이야기! 1967년 6월 2일 서독. 이란의 전제군주 방문 반대집회에서 한 대학생이 경찰의 총격에 죽는 사건을 기점으로 정부의 정책과 베트남전쟁에 반대하는 혁명 단체들의 움직임이 과격해진다. 열혈청년 ‘바더’는 동료들과 함께 백화점 폭탄테러를 일으키고, 좌파 언론인 ‘마인호프’가 이들을 옹호하고 활동에 동참하게 되면서 ‘바더 마인호프’ 테러집단이 결성된다. 정상적인 방법으로는 정부에 대항하는 게 힘들다고 판단한 이들은 테러라는 극단적인 선택을 통해 세상을 바꾸려 한다. 갈수록 대담해져가는 테러활동에 세상은 등을 돌리지만, 아이러니하게도 이들과 싸우는 연방경찰국장 호르스트는 이들을 이해하게 된다. 도대체 무엇이 그들을 역사상 가장 악명 높았던 테러리스트로 만든 걸까? *독일 적군파 (RAF: Red Army Faction) ‘안드레아스 바더’와 ‘울리케 마인호프’가 주축이 되어 결성한 급진적 혁명단체. 나치 잔재 청산과 반자본주의를 기치로 폭탄테러와 방화, 비행기 납치 등을 일으켜 전세계에 큰 충격을 주었다. 역사상 가장 급진적이고 파괴적인 테러단체로 손꼽힌다.

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.

Making of documentary from the 50th Anniversary.

Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.