Martin Umbach

The unemployed dictator Udo Schmitt is looking for a new country to rule. He begins his journey like any other unemployed person: at the employment office.

"Snowblind" is set in the black forest in the ice cold winter of 1946. Peter, a 16-year old, blind boy is trying to get out of Germany together with his father Heiner – a former SS officer. They carry the fatally wounded soldier Karl, who promised to guide them across the border to Switzerland. By the time they reach his families remote farm house, Karl has died and Peter and Heiner hope for Karls father to fulfill his sons promise. A snow storm forces them to stay at the farm house, causing highly sensible dynamics between the contradicting characters - sparking a chain of fateful events.

A Chinese Superstar attends the Berlin Film Festival. Soon she finds out that sometimes reality can be far more frightening than any Hollywood script.

A young couple seeking for refuge. A beautiful couple - but it can't be what may not be.

After the death of his parents an apathetic young man travels to a foreign country to live in their house and look after their turtle.

A documentary that delves into the creative, often humorous world of audio dubbing a Hollywood motion picture for the international market.

The former professional footballer Alex Brehm has taken care of his daughter Charlie since the accidental death of his wife. The girl suffers greatly from the loss of her beloved mother, but is an avid footballer and finds distraction from her grief, at least for a short while. Also, she is "completely the daddy" - until Alex learns one day after a blood test of his daughter that neither he nor his deceased wife Charlie's biological parents can be.

A stubborn, atmospheric and brutal view of the great love between father and daughter.

Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

After the tragic accidental death of her sister, which she has not seen since a dispute 18 years ago, the architect Sarah suffers from guilt feelings: She believes she could have saved Susanne with a liver donation. To at least do something for Susanne's husband Max and the three children, Sarah drives to the family's farm in the Vogelsberg. And has to cope with a tragedy whose cause lies in her old love for Max. Sonja Kirchberger and Jochen Nickel play the lead roles in the quietly told, melancholy TV drama about the destructive dynamics of family relationships.

Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...

Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter Tanja to keep him company. As romance blooms between Leon and Roula, his daughter approves. Unfortunately, Roula is carrying heavy emotional baggage stemming from the incest she suffered at the hands of her father.

A science fiction comedy directed by Nico Hofmann.

한 집안의 4대에 걸친 서사극으로 칠레의 정치적 격동기를 배경으로 했다. 쿠테타로 희생된 대통령의 가정, 한 사람의 남편, 가장으로서의 그의 몰락과 붕괴를 보여준다. 정치가의 딸 클라라(메릴 스트립)는 심령의 능력을 타고 났다. 그녀는 언니 로사가 독살당하자 로사의 약혼자였던 에스테반(제레미 아이언스)과 결혼한다. 그러나 에스테반은 결혼 후에도 바람을 피워 가르시아(빈센트 갈로)라는 아들을 낳아오고 성격은 점점 포악해진다. 그는 딸 블랑카(위노나 라이더)가 인디언 혈통의 사회주의자 페드로와 사귄다는 사실을 알고는 딸의 애인을 죽이려고까지 한다. 더 이상 견디지 못한 클라라는 딸 브랑카를 데리고 에스테반 곁을 떠난다. 그 사이 블랑카는 페드로(안토니오 반데라스)와 결혼해 예쁜 딸을 낳고 살지만 사회주의자라는 이유로 군부에 수감되는데...

A group of young people draws straws to see who'll steal some cigarettes. With this theft, Sebastian starts a bizarre, symbolic odyssey through a sclerotic world, in search of himself and of truth and justice. When he tries withdrawing from one social paradigm, he finds himself caught in another.

바스티앙(Bastian Bux: 조나단 브랜디스 분)은 아버지와 둘이 사는 겁많은 소년으로 겁먹고 다이빙을 못해서 수영팀이 되지 못한다. '끝없는 이야기'라는 책의 세계로 다시 가게된 바스티앙은 위험에 빠진 환타지아를 구하려 하고 그러기 위해 이름을 찾아 소년 전사 아트레이유(Atreyu: 케니 모리슨 분)와 나르는 용 펠코와 함께 떠난다. 마녀 자이드(Xayide: 클레어리사 버트 분)는 환타지아가 인간들의 꿈으로 존재함을 이용. 바스티앙의 기억을 없앰으로써 결국에는 자신의 임무조차 망각하게 만들려 한다. 이름은 찾았지만 자신의 실수로 아트레이유가 위험에 처하자 바스티앙은 마녀의 음모를 깨닫고 마지막 소원을 지혜롭게 활용하여 마녀를 소멸시킨다. 바스티앙의 아버지 바니(Barney Bux: 존 웨슬리 쉽프 분)는 아들을 찾다가 집에서 '끝없는 이야기' 책을 읽으며 아들을 응원하고 바스티앙은 아버지의 목소리를 듣고 용기를 발휘하여 모험을 끝내고 집으로 돌아온다.

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.