Burghart Klaußner

Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.

It's been 25 years since they graduated from high school or could have done it if they had not left before, made honors rounds or simply failed. Now they meet again at the class reunion, the former best of class, the former genius, the ex-class brat, the ex-class-ass, in their mid-40s, and suddenly face the people with whom they dreamed their future life , But what actually happened in the meantime?

A walk by American writer Paul Auster’s world, his past —his family, his youth, his work—, and his present, which is the publication of his novel 4321 in January 2017, an exploration of human identity and a glimpse to the soul of New York, a city that Auster has depicted as nobody has ever done.

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.

Painter Freddy lives with his wife and child on Lake Tegernsee and is working on his comeback until one day his life suddenly turns upside down: He is accused of beating up his wife and as a result of which he is said to have custody of his eight-year-old son withdrawn . But Freddy can not remember having committed the alleged acts and protests his innocence. In this grave crisis, Eddy appears, Freddy's childhood friend. Both look confusingly alike and Eddy immediately begins to interfere in Freddy's life, in which worse things happen. Only Freddy knows that he has a doppelganger, an imaginary one at that - how is he supposed to convince those around him that it is Eddy who is to blame for all the disasters? Freddy is slowly losing control of his life...

A hijacker threatens to bring down a passenger plane to a crowded football stadium. Fighter pilot Lars Koch decides to shoot down the machine. The court of Berlin should decide whether Lars Koch is a hero or a murderer. The viewers become jurors, and their decision determines the outcome of the film.

Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he hides her away from the world in their apartment. However, Eva’s nanny fights for her right to be treated like everyone else.

The family of Katharina Krohn is shocked when they learn that she is a member of a Swiss organization that helps people who have decided to leave this life, even though she has no life-threatening disease like many of the other members, but because she has lost the will to face life after the death of her husband.

It starts with "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story", which tells of a man travelling the world in seven-league boots. Adelbert von Chamisso wrote the tale before setting off to Russia on scientific expedition in 1815. He analysed the flora of Alaska and then explored the Northwest Passage, just like Cook and voyager Bering had done previously, the latter with physician and naturalist Steller in tow. A porthole reveals the view. Thus begins Ottinger's journey from Alaska to Kamchatka via Chukotka, with her predecessors’ log books to accompany her on her way.

미국과 소련의 냉전으로 핵무기 전쟁의 공포가 최고조에 오른 1957년, 보험 전문 변호사 제임스 도노반은 소련 스파이 루돌프 아벨의 변호를 맡게 된다. 당시 미국에선 전기기술자 로젠버그 부부가 원자폭탄 제조 기술을 소련에 제공했다는 혐의로 간첩죄로 사형된 사건이 있었다. 미국의 반공운동이 극에 달했던 단적인 예로 적국의 스파이를 변호한다는 것은 자신의 목숨은 물론 가족의 안전까지 위협받는 일이었다. 여론과 국민의 질타 속에서도 제임스 도노반은 “변론의 기회는 누구에게나 주어져야 한다”며 자신의 신념과 원칙에 따라 아벨의 변호에 최선을 다한다. 때마침 소련에서 붙잡힌 CIA 첩보기 조종사의 소식이 전해지고 제임스 도노반은 그를 구출하기 위해 스파이 맞교환이라는 사상 유래 없는 비밀협상에 나서게 되는데...

1957년 독일, 검사장 프리츠 바우어는 수많은 유대인을 수용소로 보내 학살시킨 나치 중령 아돌프 아이히만의 행방에 대한 결정적 증거를 넘겨받는다. 독일의 사법제도를 불신한 그는 이스라엘 정보국 모사드와 접촉한다. 반역죄를 저지른 그를 독일 당국은 주시하는데...

히틀러는 매년 동일한 시간에 이 연설을 해 왔으나 폭탄은 히틀러가 떠난 13분 후 터졌고, 폭발로 인해 그 자리에 있던 8명이 사망하고 수십 명이 부상을 입었습니다. 또한 히틀러가 서 있던 자리 바로 위에 위치한 천장이 무너져 내린다.

The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orders, to blow up the French capital. The descendent of a long line of Prussian military men, the general has never had any hesitation when it came to obeying orders. This is what’s on Swedish consul Raoul Nordling’s mind as he takes the secret staircase that leads to General von Choltitz’s suite at the Hôtel Meurice. The bridges on the Seine and the major monuments of Paris (including the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower) are mined with explosives, ready to be detonated. Armed with all the weapons of diplomacy, the consul will try to convince the general not to follow Hitler’s order of destruction.

Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.

오랜 시간 고전문헌학을 강의 하며 새로울 게 없는 일상을 살아온 ‘그레고리우스’(제레미 아이언스)는 폭우가 쏟아지던 어느 날, 우연히 위험에 처한 낯선 여인을 구한다. 하지만 그녀는 비에 젖은 붉은 코트와 오래된 책 한 권, 15분 후 출발하는 리스본행 열차 티켓을 남긴 채 홀연히 사라진다. ‘그레고리우스’는 난생 처음 느껴보는 강렬한 끌림으로 의문의 여인과 책의 저자인 ‘아마데우 프라두’(잭 휴스턴)를 찾아 리스본행 야간열차에 몸을 싣게 되는데…

Joseph is in his mid-sixties and has just lost his beloved wife. Everything in his big old mansion reminds him painfully of the years they spent together. One day several visitors turn up unexpectedly. They seem to be relatives of his deceased wife. In the beginning, the uninvited guests treat Joseph with loving care, but bit by bit the situation begins to change. The visitors slowly, almost unnoticably, become aggressive, even hostile, invaders. They try to get rid of Joseph and take over his house, his world, his thoughts. Is this just the paranoia of an old man or really a ruthless invasion?

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vanished. Is living in freedom. Because the state is protecting him, keeping him safe. He in turn has supplied information concerning other terrorists. Erika Welves considers this blatant injustice. But now, finally, there is a chance at revenge...

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

문학가를 꿈꾸는 괴테(알렌산더 페링)는 법관 시험에 떨어지고, 아버지에 권유로 시골에서 변호사 견습을 받게 된다. 유능하고 엄격한 변호사 케스트너(모리츠 블라이브트로이)의 지휘에서 잠시 벗어나 친구 예루살렘과 함께 파티에 간 괴테는 우연히 만난 로테(미리엄 스테인)에게 마음을 빼앗긴다. 로테는 괴테의 문학적 재능을 한눈에 알아보고, 두 사람은 걷잡을 수 없는 사랑에 빠져든다. 그러나, 가족을 위해 케스트너와의 약혼을 약속한 로테는 괴테에게 이별을 고하고, 괴테는 그녀를 향한 마지막 편지를 적어내려가는데…

3살의 소녀가 사라지는 사건이 발생한다. 공교롭게도 소녀가 사라진 곳은 23년전 같은 나이 또래의 소녀가 강간, 살해된 장소다. 곧 경찰의 수사가 시작 되지만 쉽게 단서를 찾아내지 못한다. 성폭행 살인범 이라는 심각한 주제를 잔잔하고 현실적인 톤으로 전개 시키는 감독의 연출력이 인상적인 작품. (2010년 제15회 부산국제영화제)

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.

1913년, 독일의 한 시골마을에서 연쇄적으로 발생하는 기이한 사건들의 근원을 쫓는 영화로 고요하고 평화로운 보이는 작은 마을에서 드러나지 않은 사람들의 추악한 본성과 그것이 어떠한 제재도 없이 되물림 되는 것의 공포가 무엇인지를 보여주는 작품이다. 누군가의 의도적 장치로 동네 의사가 부상을 입는 사건을 시작으로 마을 사람들과 아이들에게 의문의 사건들이 연이어 발생한다. 누가 자행한 짓인지 밝혀지지 않은 사건들은 점차 강도 높게, 연쇄적으로 일어나며 마을 사람들을 공포에 빠뜨린다.

An ill man’s dying wish reunites four old friends.

10대 소년 마이클은 우연히 30대 여인 한나를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 마이클이 책을 읽어주는 것을 좋아하던 한나는 어느 날 홀연히 자취를 감춘다. 한나에 대한 그리움을 간직하고 살아가던 마이클은 법대생이 되어 8년 후 우연히 피의자 신분으로 법정에 선 한나를 보게 된다. 무기징역을 선고 받은 한나와 또 다시 20년의 이별을 맞아야만 한다. 그 후 10년간 한나에게 책을 읽은 녹음 테이프를 보내면서 인연의 끈을 놓지 않으려 한다. 하지만 인생을 송두리째 흔들어 놓은 사랑은 너무나 큰 비밀을 감추고 있었는데…

Georgia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008

옐라는 실패한 결혼생활과 부서진 꿈을 뒤로한 채 새로운 삶을 찾아 고향을 떠나기로 결심한다. 무엇도 그녀를 막을 수 없다. 심지어 정신이상자인 전 남편이 그녀가 떠나던 날 교통 사고를 일으켜도, 그녀의 앞을 막지는 못한다. 젊은 이사 필립에게 비서직을 제안 받은 후 옐라의 인생은 바뀌기 시작한다. 투자 사업 쪽에는 전혀 경험이 없지만, 아름다운 외모와 도도함을 무기로 협상에 능력을 발휘하는 옐라. 이사 필립과의 애정 관계도 희망적이다. 하지만 허공에서 이상한 소리가 들리고 기묘한 사건들이 옐라를 괴롭힌다. 그녀의 새 인생은 현실이라고 하기에는 너무 완벽했던 걸까? 베를린영화제에서 여우주연상을 수상한 배우 니나 호스의 열연이 빛나는 작품.

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...

For ten years Lena Drömer has been traveling to Tuscany alone for four weeks every November - at least that's what her husband, the Protestant pastor Hermann, and her daughter believe. But this time it will be a journey without return. Shortly after her departure Lena is killed in a bus accident near Bremen. Her death gives up Hermann Rätsel. Why did she die in the north, when she wanted to go to the south? When, as every year in November, a postcard from Lena arrives from Italy, Hermann sets off in search of the truth.

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

Ausreißer [The Runaway] is a 2004 German short film directed by Ulrike Grote, with Peter Jordan and Maximilian Werner. It follows Walter, an unemployed architect, who is getting ready to go for an interview. But just as he is about to leave his flat, an eight-year-old boy, Yuri, approaches him at the door, claiming to be his son. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Autobiographical movie about the publicist Carola Stern.

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

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...

Benjamin is a 16 year old with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age, when he falls in love to the school's dream girl Malen.

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.

After the death of their parents, the sisters Astrid and Britta want to make the Winkelmann fashion house number one in their hometown. Astrid accepts that her already troubled marriage to Bernd suffers from the ambitious goal - until Bernd agrees to have a relationship with Britta. When she gets pregnant, there is a scandal between the sisters.

By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a group of high-ranking military and political figures in Germany decided to assassinate him and take over the government. Unfortunately for them, their assassination attempt failed, and the knives were out to find all the people involved in the attempt. The most wanted person in the coup was Carl Goerdeler (Dieter Schaad), a respected figure in German public life for many decades. Twenty years earlier, a girl by the name of Helene Schwärzel (Katherina Thalbach) met Goerdeler. After the coup attempt, during the nationwide manhunt, Helene recognized him and notified the authorities. In addition to receiving a huge reward, she became the focus of a nationwide propaganda campaign, and was widely resented for her "success."

When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...

Black comedy about a lucrative business. Grandmother, mother and daughter live together in a love-hate-relationship and run their business with divided responsibilities: via marriage ads they are looking for candidates. It’s the daughter that gets dressed and styled according to the new mission: no matter if vamp or tree-hugger she twists the men around her little finger until they clear their accounts from all the savings. The money ends up in coffee tins stored in grandma’s fridge. But where do the men end up when they discover the secret of the trio?

Here is the third and last of three self-contained shorts by Helke Sander from her series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services . BTW the numbering of the parts is a bit confusing, the only existing parts of the series are No. 1,5 and 8.

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women.

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.