Herbert Fritsch

The local theater in Armstadt has to take a step back; the budget gets cut due to less audience. However, the actors try their best to prepare for a new piece.

A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track…

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

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating.

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.

A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.

Tells the story of a group of gangsters hiding out in a vacation-bungalow who get more than they bargained for.

Friedrich, a successful Berlin cinema tycoon, marries Frangipani, the daughter of a retired Berlin cinema chain owner, to become the king of the city's cinema. After two years of marriage, the relationship between Frangipani and Friedrich has finally reached its lowest point.

Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois.

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.

남루한 행색의 소년이 어두운 동굴에서 홀로 지낸다. 어느 날, 검은 옷을 입은 남자가 소년을 밖으로 데리고 나간다. 말은 물론, 잘 걷지도 못하는 소년은 편지 한 장을 든 채 마을 한복판에 서 있게 된다. 소년의 이름은 카스파르 하우저. 사람들은 하우저에게 관심을 보이지만, 소년은 그저 호기심과 조롱의 대상일 뿐이다. 한 교수가 하우저를 데려가 교육시키려 하는데, 어느 날, 하우저가 괴한의 공격을 받고 만다. 실제로 1928년 뉘른베르크에 나타나 세간의 관심과 논란을 불러일으켰던 소년 카스파르 하우저의 이야기를 그렸다. 배우가 아닌 거리의 악사였던 브루노 S.의 실제를 방불케 하는 연기가 깊은 인상을 남긴다. * 1975 칸영화제 심사위원대상 등 3개 부문