Elisabeth Trissenaar

After several strokes of fate ends a rage eruption of the otherwise so quiet power engineering technician Felix Grünler with a criminal complaint for assault. A grateful affair for his sister-in-law Karin, who forges an intrigue to gain the inheritance of her mother-in-law. She succeeds in having Felix admitted to psychiatry as incompetent. He is determined not to get into therapy. For doctors, this confirms the picture of the labile patient. But in the other patients Felix gives his consistent anti-attitude in the long run benevolent recognition.

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

Sonia’s nightmare is never ending. Her super-rich husband Frederic is now locked in a psychiatric unit after he attempted to kill her. But her mother-in-law continues to make her life hell by controlling her every move. Getting a job at a wellness spa in the mountains comes at just the rights time. However, on arriving, Sonia quickly realises that the villagers are not particularly sympathetic to newcomers and mysterious things begin to happen, all of them strangely connected to the legend of the devil of Milan. But is it just her mind playing tricks on her? DER TEUFEL VON MAILAND is a thriller based on the novel by Swiss author Martin Suter.

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

A German TV drama

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-historical puzzle from Alexander Moissi to Nicholas Ofczarek. The success story of the phenomenon "Everyman" is told in an unprecedented way.

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a little, including pretty faces. Frank Knöpfel constantly flirts with life with his beguiling bright blue eyes. He buys a complete stranger an expensive coat in a designer boutique just because he feels like it. He disguises himself as a businessman from Oslo, a Mafia boss, a stock exchange specialist and an estate agent, whatever it takes to bring in the cash. He is the type of person who enjoys looking in the mirror, and delights in what he sees there. A flirtation with a customer in a boutique leads to Frank’s undoing.

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds.

A love story between a former Olympic swimmer turned jewel thief and a pastry chef/sex worker.

The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...

파니 핑크는 자의식이 강한 29살의 노처녀. 집, 직업, 친구 등 필요한 모든 것을 다 가지고 있지만, 정작 사랑할 남자가 그녀에겐 없다. 더 늦기 전에 한 남자를 빨리 찾아야 한다고 생각한다. 그녀는 퀼른-본 공항의 소지품 검색원으로 일하며, 비행기 소음이 떠나지 않는 퀼른의 허름한 고층아파트에 산다. 카세트 테이프를 들으면서 마인드 콘트롤을 하고, 죽음의 과정을 연습하는 강좌를 들으며 자신이 잠들 관을 짜서 방에 두기도 하지만, 29살이 되는 처녀에겐 공허할 뿐이다. 파니는 어느날, 아파트 엘리베이터에서 오르페오 드 알타마르를 만난다. 그는 천리안을 가진 사람처럼 심령술에 정통해 있는 신비로운 영혼의 소유자, 파니에게 운명의 한 남자를 예언해 주게 된다. 아르마니 상표의 옷을 입고, 고급 블랙카를 모는 30대 초반의 탐스러운 금발을 한 남자를, 그리고 23이라는 숫자가 그 남자의 징표라고... 망설이며 자신없어하는 파니에게 오르페오는 그 남자가 파니 인생에 있어, 마지막 남자라고 강조한다. 신통치는 않았지만, 기대에 찬 예언에 돈을 지불한다. 아침 출근길에 2323번을 단 로타르슈커의 블랙 재규어를 보았을때 파니는 운명을 믿게 된다. 수줍음 많은 파니는 두눈을 꼭감고 로타르의 차와 충돌하면서, 자신에 마지막 사랑찬스에 정력적으로 달려드는데.

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.

폴란드가 독일군에 의해 점령당하고 있는 전쟁 말기, 조그만 마을의 한 농부는 숲속에서 허기에 지쳐 쓰러진 한 여인을 발견한다. 그는 그녀에게 정성어린 간호를 베풀고 그녀가 유태인이며 독일군에게 쫓기는 신세라는 것을 알게 된다. 그녀를 자신의 집에 숨겨두면서 그는 잃어버린 옛사랑을 느끼기 시작하고 그녀에게 사랑을 고백하는데, 독일군에게 쫓겨 헤어진 남편을 잊지못하는 여인도 차츰 농부에게 관심을 갖게되면서 두 남녀의 슬픈 사랑이 시작되는데...

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa. (www.filmgalerie451.de)

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

마리아는 부푼 꿈을 안고 헤르만과 결혼하지만 남편 헤르만은 곧 전쟁터에서 행방불명되고 만다. 남편의 친구인 빌에게 남편의 사망 소식을 전해듣고 허전해진 그녀는 빌과 깊은 관계로 발전한다. 그러던 어느 날, 죽었다던 헤르만이 살아 돌아온다. 헤르만은 마리아와 빌의 정사 장면을 목격하고 흥분과 분노에 휩싸여 마리아를 고발하는데...

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.

1978년 여름 프랑크푸르트. 여장남자인 엘비라는 강가에서 심하게 얻어맞고 상처투성이로 집에 돌아온다. 집에서는 말다툼 끝에 애인이 짐을 싸 떠나버리고, 애인을 쫓아나가다 거리에서 쓰러진 엘비라를 창녀 조라가 구해준다. 엘비라는 그녀에게 자신의 인생에 대한 이야기를 들려주는데, 한때 그는 에르빈이라는 남자였지만 사랑 때문에 성전환 수술을 받았다.

In this triangle melodrama, a woman shuts herself off from the world, rejects the advancement of her husband in society, and enthrones her own successor.

1920년의 바이에른 주의 소도시. 소도시의 역장인 크사비 볼비저는 맥주 공장집의 딸 하니와 결혼하여 행복과 존경을 얻었다고 생각하며 만족스런 나날을 보낸다. 어느날 하니는 우연히 프란츠 메르클과 불륜의 관계를 맺게 되고 소문이 퍼지지만 볼비저는 이를 확인하려 하지 않는다. 한 명예훼손 소송에서 볼비저는 아내를 위해 위증을 한다.그러나 볼비저와 하니의 관계는 점점 멀어져가고 볼비저는 폭음을 하기 시작한다. 볼비저는 하니에게 개처럼 달라붙고 하니는 남편을 점점 무시하며 그러는 사이 하니에게는 이발사 애인이 생긴다. 결국 볼비저의 위증이 드러나게 되고 그는 직장과 아내를 잃고 감옥에 들어간다.