Angela Winkler

The story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma Sztáray. Far from the kitschy “Sissi” cliché, she portrays a woman who, for years without her husband, surrounded only by women, ventured on journeys throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor’s unique art and also provide an exciting insight into the world of theatre and filmmaking.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

As trevas tomam conta de uma renomada companhia de dança, envolvendo a diretora artística do grupo, uma ambiciosa jovem dançarina e um psicoterapeuta de luto. Alguns irão sucumbir ao pesadelo. Outros irão finalmente despertar.

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air.

Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the airport. Finally Sin realizes she has to go the way out of heroin addiction all alone.

The Ballade of Tubbie, Tim, Jojo, Birdie and Marie, tells in seven chapters the story of five teenagers, who have found a substitute family in each other.

In the German gangster comedy, Jan Josef Liefers and Justus von Dohnányi play two petty criminals who are supposed to do a job on Mallorca, but who can't stand each other.

Six numbers in the lottery! If that's not good luck for Georg Freudenreich and fellow winner and brother-in-law Heinrich. This distracts from the feelings Heinrich has suppressed all his life. He has fallen in love with Edward. But now, at over 70, how is he supposed to live a love he has always denied himself?

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, conflicts and problems. What unites them is the longing for closeness - for a loving, lovable partner and the somewhat unusual way they have chosen to escape their loneliness: a speed dating. So you dare to an event in which each face a man and a woman and only have seven minutes to get to know each other and open courageously in ever new constellations to a foreign counterpart.

Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) é uma famosa atriz que fica perturbada com o fato de que Joann (Chloë Moretz), jovem estrela de Hollywood, irá interpretar o papel que a fez famosa há vinte anos. Convidada a dividir o palco com a novata, uma insegura Enders viaja até os Alpes para ensaiar e conta com o apoio de sua assistente (Kristen Stewart) no confrontamento com seu passado.

How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth birthday, but with an operation looming, Linda nonetheless feels a deep need to spend what might be her last weekend with her two sisters: Katharina who is older, and Clara who is younger than her. Linda must use their journey, which begins at their family’s weekend house and ends in Paris, to examine the ways in which her family has been fundamentally affected by her illness; she must also consider how much she can expect from herself and her sisters – faced as they are with the possibility of her death.

Em um futuro próximo. O mundo, tal como o conhecemos não existe mais. Nos últimos quatro anos o sol tem brilhado com uma força imensa, criando um calor insuportável e dividindo a terra em duas partes: uma com tempestades furiosas, a outra com uma terra seca onde nenhuma planta sobrevive. Ambas insuportáveis para a raça humana. Devido à fome, a maioria da população está extinta, os poucos sobreviventes estão vivendo com o fornecimento de alimentos estocados. As cidades estão sendo invadidas e saqueadas.

In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural images, of wonderful music and powerful lyricism, which, among others was flawlessly recited by star actors such as Corinna Harfouch, Angela Winkler and Ulrich Matthes. The work treats of the consciousness-defining echoing thunder of modern rock music, of the rock inscriptions of the ancient Egyptians, of the Merseburg magic spells, the author’s childhood impressions, in the latter’s homeland in the forests of the Upper Palatinate, and the ghosts of the Nazi era, who today continue to haunt us in the most vivid manner.

Hanna e Simon estão casados há 20 anos. Vivem em Berlim e são atraentes, modernos, cultos, práticos. Não têm filhos e dão-se bem um com o outro mas a paixão desapareceu há muito da sua relação. Ambos desejam conhecer novas pessoas. Um dia, Hanna conhece Adam, um jovem cientista, e apaixona-se por ele. Ao mesmo tempo, e em circunstâncias diferentes, Simon conhece Adam, e também se apaixona por ele. Hanna e Simon não sabem que estão apaixonados pela mesma pessoa.

The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.

All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten to wreck the family’s fragile unity forever.

Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.

Portrait of German actress Angela Winkler.

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife and with his three children, hears one day that an accident has happened in a chemical plant nearby. All of a sudden, he finds himself face to face with one of the victims. The man, whose face has been eaten away by the sour gas that escaped from the plant, is staring at him in despair. Does Georg really see the man or is this a mere hallucination? Is he becoming insane or is he more alert to the dangers of the world than the common man?

Benny é filho único de uma família rica, e compensa a solidão que sente assistindo filmes e produzindo ele mesmo seus próprios vídeos; seu filme favorito é um feito no sítio dos pais, onde o caseiro dispara uma pistola pneumática contra a cabeça de um porco. Em um final de semana em que seus pais viajam Benny fica sozinho em casa, e convida uma garota que conheceu na locadora para assistir um filme em sua casa. A menina aceita, e o que poderia terminar em algum tipo de romance converte-se em um desastre.

Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of vignettes that are mixed-up in time and in location, thereby dashing any hope of following the story. A journalist goes to a southern European country to interview a well-known terrorist who has refused to stop his activities even though the revolution he fought for ended successfully five years earlier. Questions are raised about adopting violence as a way of life without at first realizing it and about the seeming impossibility of raising the consciousness of backwater cultures. Perhaps because of the way the story has been filleted into fragments, characters like the journalist and terrorist do not have enough continuous screen time to build up their individuality, a second factor that makes it difficult to become involved in the drama.

Edith runs a left-wing journal and when her marriage starts to fall apart (her husband is unfaithful), she can find no solace in her son who is more of a problem than an asset. On top of heading toward a divorce and being unable to handle her son's asocial tendencies, her neurotic uncle moves in, demanding personalized care. Just to keep her sanity intact, Edith starts writing in her diary to vent her own feelings and ambitions. As her son goes from bad to worse over a five-year period, it turns out that Edith's diary may be of more benefit than she could have ever imagined. In this adaptation of Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith, director and writer Hans W. Geissendoerfer has maintained Highsmith's psychologically tormented characters while changing the location and time of her story from the U.S. of the 1960s to Germany in the early 1980s.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd imagined it to be, the girl manages to retain her dignity. It is only after she is thoroughly disillusioned by her experiences there that she returns to her country life.

Depicts a murky masochistic relationship.

Adaptação do romance homónimo do Prémio Nobel Gunther Grass. Conta a história da primeira metade do século XX na Alemanha através da odisseia de uma criança precoce que aos três anos decide voluntariamente não crescer, lançando-se pelas escadas, e que com o tambor de que nunca se separa, se torna a testemunha dos sobressaltos da história alemã.

Uma noite, procurando sua ex-esposa, Hoffmann vai ao centro de jovens onde ela trabalha. A polícia está cercando os radicais que frequentam o centro. Hoffmann corre para dentro do prédio e acaba sendo baleado na cabeça. Ele acorda com traumatismo cerebral, parcialmente paralisado e incapaz de falar. A polícia o acusou de esfaquear um oficial; os radicais afirmam que é uma vítima inocente da brutalidade policial. Durante sua lenta recuperação no hospital, Hoffmann deve juntar os pedaços de sua vida e lutar para relembrar os acontecimentos daquela noite. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

A viagem solitária de uma mulher após decidir separar-se do marido, ficando sozinha em casa com o seu pequeno filho. O filme descreve a sua redescoberta do mundo, entre o silêncio da solidão e a liberdade de uma nova independência.

Katharina Blum e Ludwig Göette se apaixonam à primeira vista em uma festa de carnaval e passam a noite juntos. Na manhã seguinte, o apartamento da jovem é invadido pela polícia. Ludwig desapareceu, mas Katharina é levada presa. Ela não sabia que tinha acabado de se envolver com um dos suspeitos de terrorismo mais procurados pela inteligência alemã. De um simples caso de polícia, a história de Katharina vira um escândalo nacional quando o repórter Werner Töetges, do jornal sensacionalista Zeitung, passa a cobrir o caso. Sem escrúpulos e em busca apenas de fatos chocantes para publicar – sendo verdade ou não – o jornalista passa a perseguir todas as pessoas que faziam parte da vida pessoal da jovem.

While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers instead...

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.