Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck

출생 : 1961-09-14, Munich, Germany

약력

Martina Gedeck  (born 14 September 1961) is a German actress. She came to international fame as the main character in the German films Mostly Martha and The Lives of Others.

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Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck

참여 작품

Die Verteidigerin - Der Gesang des Raben
Anna Notrup
Dark Satellites
Christa
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.
Wo ist meine Schwester?
Dorothee Reinhard
Can twin sisters sense each other? In any case, Marie feels Amelie. While the one sister is already on her way home from their birthday party, Marie, who stayed longer, suddenly collapses on the dance floor. That night, Amelie never arrives home and disappears without a trace. Her friend Jonas alerts the police the next morning, worried that something must have happened. Chief Inspector Ingo Thiel immediately begins the investigation, but for the time being he and his SOKO team are groping in the dark: no witnesses, no enemies, just an earring found in the park. But then Marie notices that something is missing from the couple's apartment: a striking patchwork blanket that Marie had given her sister. Thiel is certain: Jonas is hiding something. So does he have something to do with the disappearance of his girlfriend?
Endlich Witwer - Forever Young
Petra Schultheiss
Wunderschön
Frauke Abeck
After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...
Und wer nimmt den Hund?
Doris Lehnert
After 26 years of marriage there is a divorce on the way between Georg and Doris. While Georg is having some fun with a much younger co-worker, Doris want the divorce be silenced. Thats why the couple is taking a separation therapy and there will be some rough sessions.
Augsburger Puppenkiste - Geister der Weihnacht
Ghost #1 (voice)
Herzjagen
Caroline Binder
Zwei Herren im Anzug
Theres
Killing Stella
Anna
KILLING STELLA is an ice-cold examination of a failed marriage and the self-reproach of a wife and mother. It is a prequel to THE WALL in both literary and cinematic terms.
Original Bliss
Helen Brindel
Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.
The Verdict
Staatsanwältin Frau Nelson
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.
Seit du da bist
Clara
For a job, Alina has to accept longer working hours and long business trips. The single mother has to reorganize her everyday life with her daughter Lilia and asks her ex-boyfriend Jarek to teach her the violin lessons. While Lilia finds it difficult to come to terms with the new situation, Jarek soon finds pleasure in contacting violin teacher Clara and her sons - much to the dismay of Clara's husband. When Lilia gets the chance to change to another teacher as a master student, the contact with Clara breaks off. Until Jarek and Clara meet again by chance a few months later.
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Edith Frank-Holländer
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
나의 산티아고
Stella
최고의 전성기를 누리며 부와 명예를 거머쥔 인기 코미디언 하페가 과로로 쓰러지면서 큰 수술을 받게 된다. 수술 후 갖게 된 긴 휴가가 낯설기만 한 그는 곧 무력감에 시달리게 되고 돌연 산티아고 순례길에 오르기로 결심한다. 첫 날부터 폭우와 허름한 숙소, 불면의 밤까지. 하페는 고통이 동행하는 여정을 시작하는데…
걸 킹 크리스티나
Maria Eleonora
스웨덴의 여왕이었던 크리스티나의 이야기다. 크리스티나는 관습에 저항하고 전통에 도전하며 역사를 새롭게 썼다. 그녀는 이성적 사고와 열정, 여성의 몸 과 왕자로 길러지며 받은 교육, 중세사회와 근대사회, 교양 인의 탁월함을 가진 자아와 복합적인 감정으로 인해 두려움 을 느끼는 자아 사이에서 괴로워한다.
Das Ende der Geduld
Corinna Kleist
Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a 'problem area' in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from being turned into vicious criminals.
Am Hang
Valerie
Felix is on the edge. He has got just one thing on his mind: Valerie - his wife, who has recently left him. He returns to the place of their final break-up. Valerie's ex-lover Thomas is also here, but not for sentimental reasons. By chance the two men meet in a restaurant. By chance Felix discovers who he is facing. And then starts the inscrutable game.
Those Happy Years
Helke
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.
Blank
Judith Furmann
An aging renowned art history researcher falls in love with a younger woman who struggles and tries to cover his ongoing Alzheimer's's.
Halbe Hundert
Anne Kater
At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn’t fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them stand before decisive changes. Anne is successful in her professional life as a hand surgeon who is acclaimed all across Germany. The victim of her flawless career is her marriage to Klaus, who had her back with regards to children and household for years and now has left her unexpectedly. Anne reacts with wounded vanity and books a young, attractive male escort for a congress. But the relationship, considered to be professional, throws Anne out of the loop emotionally. Charlotte has worn down herself for the family for years as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With the illness in front of her eyes, Charlotte finds the courage to break out of old confinements…
리스본행 야간열차
Mariana
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…
베일을 쓴 소녀
Mère de Suzanne
18세기 프랑스. 유복했던 집안이 몰락하면서 가족들의 강요로 수녀원에 들어가게 된 수잔. 낯선 생활에 적응하지 못하는 수잔은 수녀가 되는 것을 거부하지만 자신이 어머니의 외도로 나온 딸이라는 비밀을 알게 된 후 어머니의 죄를 대신해 수녀원에 있게 된다. 하지만 유일한 안식처였던 원장수녀가 갑작스레 세상을 떠나고, 새 원장수녀로부터 갖은 모욕과 핍박을 당하자 그녀는 친부를 찾아 수녀원을 탈출하기로 결심하는데…
도어
Magda
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
더 월
Frau
A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.
Bastard
Meinert
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.
아그노시아
Prevert
The protagonist is a young woman, Joan Prats suffering from agnosia, a strange, primary visual disease that is one of the neuropsychological disorders of perception. Although her eyes and ears are in perfect condition, her brain is not able to correctly interpret the stimuli it receives. Joan is the only person to know an industrial secret left behind by her late father and becomes the victim of a sinister plan to extract this information. Her captors plan to use her sensory condition to help extract the information that they so desperately want.
쥬 수스: 라이즈 앤 폴
Anna Marian
This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
Aghet
Alma Johansson
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.
Sisi
Erzherzogin Sophie
The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with the young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve this love.
Bets & Wedding Dresses
Josephine Campanella
클라라
Clara Schumann
A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
바더 마인호프
Ulrike Meinhof
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.
Messy Christmas
Sara
A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi and Erich, and she and Jan are raising children from each of their previous marriages. Jan is less than thrilled with the prospect of spending the holidays with Sara's mother, but things get worse when he learns his wife has planned a surprise for Christmas eve -- they'll be joined by Gunnar, Andi and Erich, as well as Erich's new wife Pauline, Andi's current spouse Rita and his own ex-wife, Eva. To call the atmosphere uncomfortable is an understatement, and things only get worse when Sara announces she's pregnant, which is quite troubling for Jan since he's been waiting for the right time to tell her he had a vasectomy several months before.
Verlassen
Claudia
굿 셰퍼드
Hanna Schiller
1961년 4월 쿠바 반 혁명군 침공작전에 실패한 미국 정부는 CIA 내부 첩자로 인해 정보가 유출되었음을 알게 된다. 정치적으로 큰 타격을 받은 대통령의 지시에 의해 CIA는 내부 첩자를 비밀리에 조사하기 시작한다. 그러던 중 CIA 초창기부터 첩보 업무를 담당한 베테랑 요원 에드워드 윌슨(맷 데이먼)에게 익명의 녹음 테잎과 흑백사진이 도착한다. 첩자를 알아낼 수 있는 유일한 단서인 이 증거물의 정체를 하나씩 밝혀나가면서 윌슨은 자신의 CIA 활동을 거슬러 올라간다. 1939년. 명문가 출신의 예일대 학생 에드워드 윌슨(맷 데이먼)은 비밀 서클인 Skull and Bones에 가입하면서 첩보세계에 발을 들여놓는다. 그의 명석하고 냉철한 두뇌, 무엇보다 국가에 대한 흔들리지 않는 믿음은 미 정부 비밀요원이 되기에 최적의 요소였던 것. 윌슨은 이 단체에서 만난 클로버(안젤리나 졸리)와 하룻밤을 보내고 그녀가 임신하자 책임감으로 결혼에 이른다. 결혼식 직후 윌슨은 국가의 첩보요원으로 유럽으로 발령, 그곳에서 영국 첩보원들과 교류하며 점차 CIA 요원으로 자리를 잡아간다. 그러나, 그가 최고의 요원이 될수록 그는 주변의 모든 사람들, 가족조차도 불신하게 되고 이것은 결국 크나큰 희생을 불러오게 되는데…
Summer '04
Miriam
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
Auf ewig und einen Tag
Paula Schmitt
A Perfect Friend
Marlène
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
타인의 삶
Christa-Maria Sieland
1980년대 중반 동독에서는 9만명이 넘는 비밀경찰(슈타지)과 약 17만명의 정보원이 활동했다. 만인에 대한 만인의 밀고로 유지되는 세계에서는 더 끈덕지게 의심하는 자가 유능한 멤버다. 주인공 게르트 비즐러(울리히 뮈헤)는 탁월한 감시 및 심문 실력과 정치적 신념으로 무장한 비밀경찰. 비즐러는 동독 최고의 극작가 드라이만과 그의 애인이자 인기 여배우 크리스타를 감시하는 중대 임무를 맡는다. 그러나 시간이 지날수록 드라이만을 체포할 만한 단서는 찾을 수 없다. 비즐러는 오히려 드라이만과 크리스타의 삶으로 인해 감동받고 사랑을 느끼며 이전의 삶과는 달리 인간적인 모습으로 변화하기 시작하는데...
Liebe nach dem Tod
Life of Greta Bücking and Paul Markwart seems to be in perfect order. Both are happily married - until they find out that their spouse died in a plane crash. But increasingly compacted suspected that Lutz Bücking and Karin Markwart were not traveling on business, but on the way to their common love nest, is a cozy hotel on Amrum.
소립자
Christiane
이부(異父)형제 미하엘과 브루노는 전혀 다른 성격의 소유자들이다. 어머니는 할머니에게 아들을 맡기고 섹스와 마약을 탐닉하는 공동체로 떠나버렸고, 둘은 각기 다른 방식으로 그 부재를 견뎌냈다. 분자생물학자가 된 미하엘은 이렇다할 성생활을 갖지 않고 연구에만 몰두한다. 반면, 브루노는 정신병원을 드나들 정도로 성에 탐닉하지만 아직 한 번도 자신을 충족시키는 여자와 만나지 못했다. 하지만 두 사람이 서른에 접어든 어느 날, 인생은 급변한다. 미하엘은 첫사랑 애나벨과 다시 만나게 되고 브루노는 마침내 자신의 성적 강박을 함께 즐길 수 있는 상대 크리스티안과 만나게 된 것이다. 드디어 행복을 거머쥐었다고 생각한 순간, 짓궂은 운명은 두 여자를 병에 걸리게 만들어 버린다. 미하엘과 브루노는 사랑을 위해 함께 고난을 이겨낼 것인지, 고통을 피해 외로움으로 점철된 본래의 삶으로 돌아갈 것인지를 결정해야 할 순간을 맞이하는데….
Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas
Greta Steinwendner / Ladiner
Spiele der Macht – 11011 Berlin
Prof. Sara M. Kardow
Giacomo Casanova
Madame De Roll
Sergeant Pepper
Martha Klein
A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his wealth.
Feuer in der Nacht
Paola Winkler
A live broadcast TV-thriller by Kai Wessel.
Der Stich des Skorpion
Anne Stein
Hunger auf Leben
Brigitte Reimann
Geheime Geschichten
Das Blaue Wunder
Thea Eiselt
Ins Leben zurück
Clara Lorenz
Unsre Mutter ist halt anders
Paula
Andreas Hofer
Lebzelter-Mariandl
Verlorenes Land
Maria Kaindl
Jenseits der Liebe
Helen Dubbs
마사의 부엌
Martha Klein
독일의 한 고급 프랑스 레스토랑에서 완벽주의자 셰프로 일하고 있는 마사. 언니의 사고로 그녀의 딸 리나와 지내게 되고, 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 직장에 들어온 새 동료마저 거슬리기만 한다. 인생의 전환점에 서 있는 그녀는 과연 완벽한 요리를 계속 만들 수 있을까?
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
Sarah
Romeo
Lotte Zimmermann
O Palmenbaum
Katarina „Kati“ Treichl
Kati and Jonas have planned to get married secretly during their Christmas trip to Mauritius - but in the end, Kati's entire family gets wind of the plan and shows up at the airport to accompany them.
The Queen – Marianne Hoppe
Werner Schroeter's lovely and touching portrait of the great German actress Marianne Hoppe, whose career spanned from the glory days of the Weimar era through the Nazi years to a postwar return to the stage in Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and experimental productions by Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller.
The Green Desert
Doris
Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.
Ich habe nein gesagt
Doris Wengler
Jew-boy Levi
Fräulein Neuner
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever. Now, Levi and Lisbeth are targets of hate in this provocative and shocking drama.
Your Best Years
Vera Kemp
All About Bob
Barbara
Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. He forces Bob to marry his daughter and behave like the perfect husband, or else... Unfortunately, Bob meets "The One" just a few days before the wedding and had also told her what she wanted to hear, all of this unbeknownst to his future wife. Then right as he's trying to extricate himself from those dilemmas, two very protective Turkish brothers of one of his past affairs are after him to take revenge for taking her virginity!
Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich
Frau Czerni
Frauen lügen nicht
Hannah
Single Bells
Katharina "Kati" Treichl
Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...
Life Is All You Get
Lilo
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Das wilde Kind
Lea Katz
Rossini
Serafina
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.
Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns
Lea Katz
Harald
Rica Reichmann
The alien Harald has booked a package holiday on Earth and is trying to find shelter at science fiction editor Rita Reichmans flat. Her admirer Frido Lipinski so not amused because Rita seems to succumb to Haralds charm. But Harald also has quite a few problems in learning the rules of conduct of the earthlings and that he cannot lie, complicates the situation.
Der schönste Tag im Leben
Waltraut
Wer Kollegen hat, braucht keine Feinde
Sylvie Schmidtbauer
A thriller about mobbing.
Talk of the Town
Sabine Kirsch
Comedy about a woman who hosts a radio talk-show who turns thirty and worries about not having a husband. With the help of her gay brother, she places an personal advert in the local paper and meets a charming dentist. Unfortunately, she finds out he is married, and her brother also falls for him.
Hölleisengretl
Hölleisengretl
Das Schwein – Eine deutsche Karriere
Wanda Weißenfels
Man in Search of Woman
Woman in Park
A group of men, addicted to pornography, have a chance to live out their fantasies but find that the reality is far different from what they expect.
움직이는 남자
Jutta
젊고 잘생긴 악셀은 여자친구 도로가 있으면서도 항상 여자 뒤꽁무니를 쫓아다닌다. 어느날 도로는 악셀과의 결별을 선언하고 자신의 아파트에서 그를 내쫓는다. 새 집을 찾아다니던 악셀은 게이인 발터를 소개받는데 발터는 악셀에게 매력을 느끼고 있다. 발터는 악셀을 게이 파티에 데려가고, 그들은 그곳에서 노베르트를 만나게 된다. 큰 아파트의 소유자인 노베르트는 악셀을 유혹하기 위해 그를 자신의 집에 머무르게 한다. 한편 도로는 악셀의 아이를 임신한 사실을 알게 되고, 악셀이 게이들과 함께 살고 있는 것을 모른 채 그를 다시 돌아오게 하려 하는데..
Barmherzige Schwestern
Klara
Krücke
Bronka
Schulz & Schulz IV: Neue Welten, alte Lasten
Britta
Endstation Harembar
Vicky
Mutter und Söhne
Susanne Stoller
Leo und Charlotte
Sylvie
Hausmänner
Helen
Schulz & Schulz II: Aller Anfang ist schwer
Britta
Der doppelte Nötzli
Hard Days, Hard Nights
Goldi
Schulz & Schulz
Britta
Tiger, Löwe, Panther
Nicoletta / Löwe
Eine Frau für Alfie
Odette Ritter
Golden Boy
Brigitte Katzbach
Die Beute
Nelly
Aquaplaning
A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.
A Winter's Journey
Maria
Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice and snow, on a dangerous journey which will either lead him to death or to a new life.