Lars Rudolph

Brenda is pregnant. Ale compiuto has just turned 19 and is about to become a father. Kevin fills the city with his name. Everyone tries to make their mark on the world. Always connected to each other, they buzz between the coastal countryside and the eternal city, trying to resist in their own way the inexorable advance of time and heat.

The focus is on a relationship between a couple, played by the directing duo, and Daniel, with whom they end up in bed one after the other. It's an open-hearted game of love, fascinating to look at, and at the same time it's true, it questions everything.

The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

A história real de Freddy e Walter - dois jovens judeus eslovacos, que foram deportados para Auschwitz em 1942. Em 10 de abril de 1944, após um planejamento meticuloso e com a ajuda e a resiliência de seus colegas internos, eles conseguiram escapar. Os dois homens são movidos pela esperança de que suas evidências possam salvar vidas. Feridos, eles voltam pelas montanhas para a Eslováquia. Com a ajuda de estranhos pelo caminho, eles finalmente conseguem cruzar a fronteira e encontrar a resistência e a Cruz Vermelha. Eles compilam um relatório detalhado sobre o genocídio sistemático no campo. No entanto, com a propaganda nazista e ligações internacionais ainda em vigor, seu relato parece ser muito angustiante para acreditar.

Final do século XIX. Pedro chega à Terra do Fogo para fotografar o casamento de um latifundiário. Ao fotografar a beleza da noiva, Pedro trai o poder dominante e é forçado a participar de uma nova sociedade que está sendo construída em torno do genocídio do povo Selknam.

Once upon a time, there's been an epidemic on earth: People float away due to fear and petty criminal brothers Rémi and Widu are fighting the whole time while trying to accomplish their biggest mission yet.

When his two mature children Anton and Linda start leaving the house, after graduation, father Michael stops taking care of his body. Anton sacrifices his body for a bed-rest-study to contribute to spacetraveling, while Linda is in search of her first sexual experience.

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Sweet Porridge“ or “The Magic Porridge Pot“.

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark in advertising with his irreverent aesthetic and punk sensibility. It was his spontaneous, imperfect images shot for an MTV campaign in 1994 that first made him famous.

Christoph begins his year of civil service at a nursing home as the personal caretaker for 28-year-old Sven. The seriously ill young man is suffering from muscular dystrophy and his nursing room has become his own little microcosm which he has been sovereignly controlling for years.

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working altered the public’s perception of this theater. The chronological history of the Castorf era between 1992 and 2017 is told here in excerpts from the productions and in a series of conversations conducted on the long sofa in the theater's foyer.

In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to live their version of freedom and independence - everybody for themselves and all together. But that's hard work, since the joined theatre production puts the groups' idealism to a hard test.

Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.

The first day of the holidays at the campsite. Mimi wants to make friends with the other children, Karl wants to go swimming with the crocodile, Dad’s hungry and Mum left the sandwiches on the kitchen table. All of a sudden, the caretaker’s little rabbit Fernando goes missing. Not until the medieval tourists arrive does a sense of order return. One thing is for sure: the world is in turmoil.

Alma and Jan are having an affair and yet Jan does not want to admit it. In order to force him to recognize their relationship, Alma secretly takes Jan's small son, Juri on a trip. Accompanied by the delivery man Bruno, the two drive in the direction of Berlin. At a rest stop, he tries clumsily to get closer to Alma but she rebuffs him. In doing so, Alma unwittingly injures him in such a way that he drops all his inhibitions. Whereas Bruno until now was acting covertly in the hope of establishing contact, he now wants to take for himself what has been denied him.

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.

Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power.

After Lucy (17) finds out that she was conceived during a porn shoot she sets out to find her father and meets Udo, a has-been former porn star. Together this unlikely couple go on a journey during which both find more than they bargained for…

Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things...

Na Alemanha, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, na década de 1940, o casal de operários Otto (Brendan Gleeson) e Anna (Emma Thompson) recebem a notícia de que seu filho único foi morto em combate. Inconformados com o fato, eles decidem tomar providências contra os nazistas e resistir da sua forma, mas, logo eles caem na mira da Gestapo. No coração do terror a resistência é uma questão de honra. Baseado em fatos reais.

Adolf Hitler desperta no mesmo local em que ficava o seu bunker há 70 anos, mas vira um fenômeno da mídia ao ser confundido com um comediante.

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.

Três georgianos precisam limpar um castelo onde a coleção de arte de um fabricante de armas está em exibição. Na festa de abertura, eles são banidos para o sótão, mas no andar de baixo o esplêndido bufê os atrai. Por que não ignorar a proibição injusta e passar do limite da sociedade de classes?

The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.

Canadá, verão de 1898. Um grupo de colonos alemães viaja para o extremo norte, em vagões cobertos, com cavalos de carga e seus poucos pertences no reboque. Os sete viajantes partiram de Ashcroft, a estação ferroviária final. Junto com o seu lí­der, o extravagante empresário Wilhelm Laser, eles esperam encontrar sua fortuna nos garimpos recentemente descobertos de Dawson, mas não têm idéia das tensões e perigos que estão í frente em sua jornada de 2500 km. Antes da longa incerteza, o tempo frio e o cansaço começam a cobrar seu preço e os conflitos vão aumentando. A viagem leva estes homens e mulheres cada vez mais fundo, rumo a um deserto ameaçador.

Séc. XIX. Heinrich Faust é um filósofo e alquimista que vive frustrado pelas limitações do conhecimento humano. Tudo o que mais anseia é conhecer a natureza do mundo e o verdadeiro sentido da vida. Até que conhece Moneylender, que lhe dá a conhecer um lado mais obscuro e sórdido da realidade. É então que o seu novo amigo lhe propõe algo irrecusável: a sua alma em troca do amor de Margarete, a mulher que Faust deseja. E, claro, o conhecimento supremo.

Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery.

A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer Gerhard Weiss argues that the bloody fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were based on authentic models. Is the Hamburg fairy tale murderer inspired by Weiss's novel?

Zinos Kazantsakis é proprietário do restaurante Soul Kitchen. O negócio não anda bem, pois os clientes não aprovam a comida feita pelo novo chef. Para piorar, sua namorada resolveu se mudar para Xangai e uma terrível dor nas costas o atormenta. Zinos decide ir atrás da amada mas, para isso, precisa deixar o comando do restaurante nas mãos do irmão, que acaba de sair da prisão.

Tiuri é quase um cavaleiro. Ele só tem de passar em um teste e ele vai ser condecorado. Ele só tem de dormir uma noite na capela, sem falar e sem abrir a porta. Então, alguém bate à porta da capela e pede ajuda. Arriscando seu título, Tiuri abre a porta e ajuda o indivíduo. Tiuri tem que entregar uma carta a um cavaleiro na floresta, que contém uma mensagem importante para um rei aliado. Quando Tiuri encontra o cavaleiro, o cavaleiro é mortalmente ferido e pede Tiuri para entregar a carta. Tiuri hesita, mas aceita a missão. A aventura começa …. Tiuri conseguirá entregar a carta na hora? Qual o conteúdo da carta?

Jan is an absolute heartthrob and a diehard Hertha fan. Katrin is attractive, just as successful and an incorrigible romantic. Chance makes the two the ideal couple. At least almost. Everything would be perfect if the two flagship models of their species did not lapse into primeval behavioral patterns. And so Jan sinks a little too deep in the cleavage of his secretary Melanie, and Katrin can not resist the adventurer Jonathan's lead role.

A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.

Do outro lado, novo filme do diretor alemão Fathi Akin, nos mostra como os destinos podem mudar dependendo de pequenos momentos, de pequenos acontecimentos. São três famílias, duas turcas e uma alemã. Seus membros estão espalhados entre os dois países. Yeter é uma prostituta quarentona turca que vive na Alemanha. Ela envia dinheiro para sua filha, Ayten, uma ativista política que vive em Istambul, na Turquia. Nejat é um professor numa universidade Alemã, seu pai, Ali, é um turco aposentado que inicia um romance com a prostituta Yeter. Lotte é uma jovem estudante universitária que vive com sua mãe, Susanne, na Alemanha. Os destinos dessas três famílias se cruzam de uma forma dramática e inesperada.

Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list.

O ator mais aclamado da Alemanha é contratado pelo propagandista Nazi Joseph Goebbels para preparar o líder do Terceiro Reich para fazer um discurso.

33 x Around The Sun is a dreamlike journey into a world where nothing is quite what it seems. It follows the story of a man who wakes up in an apparently abandoned hospital then walks out into the night in search of answers. As our hero wanders the mysteriously empty streets he encounters a series of characters who emerge from the shadows like the lost and the damned. These moonstruck individuals all seem to share a connection - a connection that might lead him to the truth he seeks.

Fanny (Nathalie Boutefeu) has a small grain. Even the children tease. She lives in the home of her brother, she discovers that his beautiful sister having an affair. She decided to go to Germany, find its roots...

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle.

Set on the farm in Gribbohm where the artist was born and raised, Meechfieber recounts the grotesque adventures of a farm couple who must come to grips with surreal machines, bric-à-brac spaceships, costumed animals and frenetic dances.

Após quase ser atingido por um raio, Martim Lutero (Joseph Fiennes) acredita ter recebido um chamado. Ele se junta ao monastério, mas logo fica atormentado com as práticas adotadas pela Igreja Católica na época. Após pregar em uma igreja suas 95 teses, Lutero passa a ser perseguido. Pressionado para que se redima publicamente, Lutero se recusa a negar suas teses e desafia a Igreja Católica a provar que elas estejam erradas e contradigam o que prega a Bíblia. Excomungado, Lutero foge e inicia sua batalha para mostrar que seus ideais estão corretos e que eles permitem o acesso de todas as pessoas a Deus.

Frank and Paul are best friends forever and raised Frank's daughter Lilli after a tragic car accident. The two men scrape a living by working as barmen and bouncers in a strip club while Lilly has grown into a lively and self-confident teenager. The disaster unfolds when Lilli seduces Paul and gets pregnant.

A series of poems.

A portrait of Bruno S., who became famous as an actor in Werner Herzog's films The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek and was forgotten all too quickly.

“The Antman” is a lovingly-made but sluggish monster-movie parody, done with German-speaking actors on a sparse soundstage standing in for 1950s Mexico. Promising concept is bolstered by colorful performances by Gotz Otto and Lars Rudolph, and the filmmakers have fun with pic’s look, right down to tacky lighting worthy of Roger Corman. But Marc Meyer’s script isn’t fast or funny enough to keep pace with energetic visuals. The first in a projected series of B-movie homages grouped as “Planet B,” the producers might want to call in Joe Dante to supervise the rest, as “Antman” seems unlikely to crawl very far beyond its native borders

Fala sobre as atividades enganadoras de um grupo de soldados estadunidenses, na Alemanha Ocidental, durante o período da queda do Muro de Berlim.

A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Murnberger.

Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "The Four Righteous" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More "honorable" personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the "honorable personalities" as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.

Tirana Year Zero (Tirana, année zéro), is a 2002 Albanian film that tells the story of a young couple in post-communist Albania, at a time when many Albanians left the country in search for a better life abroad. The protagonist of the movie is Nik, who lives in the capital of Albania, Tirana, along with his mother and father. He is in love with a beautiful girl named Klara, who wants to move to Paris to be a model. Nik makes his living with an old truck that belonged to his father, who is now sick, and seemingly dying. Amidst the criticisms of his mother, the confusion and desperation covering the country, and the desire of his girlfriend to leave, Nik is still unsure whether he wants to leave. The film explores the way Nik handles the events of his life.

Esta história se passa em uma pequena cidade na planície húngara. Em uma cidade provincial, que é cercada com nada mais do que gelo. É tempo muito frio - sem neve. Mesmo neste confuso frio centenas de pessoas estão em pé ao redor da tenda de circo, que é colocar-se na praça principal, para ver - como o resultado de sua espera - a principal atração, a carcaça empalhada de uma baleia verdadeira. As pessoas estão vindo de todos os lugares. A partir dos assentamentos vizinhos, mesmo de muito longe as partes do país. Eles estão seguindo esse monstro desajeitado como um mudo, sem rosto, pano vestindo multidão. Este estranho estado de coisas - o surgimento dos estrangeiros, a geada extremo - perturba a ordem da pequena cidade. Ambiciosos personagens da história acham que podem tirar proveito desta situação. A tensão crescente com o insuportável é trazido a explosão, a figura do príncipe, que está fingindo ausência de face.

An experimental study about the love between Franz Kafka and his adored Felice based on their correspondence.

Quando a tímida e bela enfermeira Sissi sofre um terrível acidente de carro, um charmoso criminoso milagrosamente salva a sua vida. Ao se recuperar, Sissi sai em busca de seu salvador e descobre um homem violento, com um passado conflitante e um futuro perigoso. Logo, eles voltam a se encontrar em meio a um perigoso assalto a banco, quando ela percebe que seu destino está pré-determinado. Ou não?

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.

A moonstruck comedy about lovers and robbers.

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.

Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally, he finds her place and stays with friends of hers while she is abroad. Now Lukas falls in love with Alice, but does not want to admit it. And while his relationship with Alice is in doubt, Nathalie comes back home. Trouble had been breeding all along.

O namorado de Lola é mensageiro de um gângster. Quando as coisas se complicam para ele, Lola tem vinte minutos para levar uma quantia de dinheiro para o outro lado da cidade, ou o namorado morre. Em sua corrida contra o relógio, Lola é constantemente atrasada por mendigos, freiras, bebês e armas. A cada passo, os segundos escapam, e as minúsculas decisões que ela toma podem fazer toda a diferença.

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.

Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell.

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?