Nico Hofmann

O Ártico está esquentando mais rápido do que qualquer outro lugar do planeta. Especialistas mostram que um Ártico sem gelo causaria a elevação do nível do mar, ondas de calor brutais, frio polar e tempestades catastróficas.

It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. The mission is to understand climate change, because the changes in the Arctic have an impact far beyond the region. The documentary provides spectacular close-ups of the MOSAiC expedition under the direction of the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and shows the world of the Arctic during the polar night, from which hardly any data and images existed until now. A scientific, logistical and also human adventure of a community of researchers and crew members who let themselves be frozen with the ship for a year in the ice desert near the North Pole in order to use the natural drift of the ice, captured for the audience in impressive images.

Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers too. Last but not least, his success was based on her strength. Hannelore Kohl lived in her husband's iron power system. When she fell seriously ill, Hannelore Kohl retreated more and more from the light of the public to a life in the dark. Until she put an end to her life on July 5, 2001. The documentation chronologically traces the life of Hannelore Kohl using archive recordings from over half a century of German history.

In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.

Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.

A emocionante história da infância de Hape Kerkeling, o comediante mais amado da Alemanha. Em 1972, ele era um menino gorducho que crescia na segurança de sua família e de parentes que adoravam se divertir. À primeira vista, ele pode não parecer o cara mais popular, mas tem um talento peculiar para observar as pessoas à sua volta e fazer imitações hilariantes. No entanto, acontecimentos inesperados causam uma grande reviravolta em sua infância perfeita. Para sobreviver ao tumulto emocional, ele usa seus talentos cômicos para curar suas feridas e fazer as pessoas rirem junto com ele.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.

Frank Zappa conseguiu um impacto inesquecível na música popular do século 20. Conheça sua vida e trabalho através de várias imagens de arquivo tiradas ao longo de décadas. Seu tabu era questionar as primeiras criações.

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

Um famoso comediante e apresentador alemão relata a história dos quase 800 km percorridos por ele pelo caminho de Santiago de Compostela.

An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real life being purely coincidental).

No final de março de 1945, no campo de concentração Buchenwald, o prisioneiro Hans Pippig descobre em uma mala uma criança judia escondida. Se denunciar a criança de 3 anos com certeza morrerá. Por outro lado, a violação de regras do campo ameaçaria a longa preparação para a revolta dos prisioneiros contra a SS.

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

A história se passa na Idade Média e mostra a história de Rob Cole (Payne), um médico que busca explicações científicas para doenças em um mundo dominado pela religião. Kingsley interpretará Ibn Sina, o "médico dos médicos" e Skarsgard será o Barbeiro, mentor do protagonista.

The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoiselle Bertoux is delighted to stage “Romeo and Juliet” with real boys, both Hanni and her sister Nanni fall for their “Romeo,” Clyde.

After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.

1944. Adolf Hitler mostra toda sua confiança no marechal de campo, Erwin Rommel, quando deixa em suas mãos uma missão decisiva. Agora, diante de certas dúvidas, o militar deverá demonstrar a perfeição de seu plano e sua lealdade ao Führer.

Nos anos 80, dois estivadores da Alemanha Oriental, Cornelis e Andreas, sonham um sonho impossível: deixar o país. Para poder fugir pelo mar, eles precisam entregar um de seus colegas para a polícia do Estado. O plano muda quando Cornelis se apaixona por uma jovem vietnamita chamada Phuong Mai.

Os Jogos Olímpicos de 1972 deveria ter sido um destaque esportivo. Mas, em seguida, o impensável acontece. No início da manhã de setembro de terroristas palestinos 5ª invadiram a Vila Olímpica e invadir os quartos da delegação israelense.

Um jornalista é apanhado por um grupo terrorista em Moscou enquanto investigava o serviço secreto russo.

Duas irmãs gêmeas idênticas são mandadas para um colégio interno por conta de suas travessuras em casa. Enquanto a doce Nanni já faz seus primeiros amigos, a esquentada Hanni passa por mais dificuldades para se adaptar à nova rotina. Quando um importante jogo de hockey está para acontecer, as gêmeas precisam se unir e tomar uma decisão que pode salvar toda a escola.

Moritz é um garoto apaixonado por futebol com um sonho de ser um grande jogador. Depois que seus pais se separam e ele perde o seu lugar no time de futebol, Moritz busca montar uma nova equipe para vencer no campeonato enfrentando incríveis desafios.

The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.

Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.

Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.

Insatisfeito com o regime comunista da Alemanha Oriental, o campeão de natação Harry Melchior decide fugir. Mas ele não quer abandonar sua irmã Lotte e promete que voltará para resgatá-la. Após conseguir atravessar a fronteira com documentos falsos, Harry procura a ajuda do amigo Matthis e de mais dois jovens ativistas, Fred e Vic, e propõe a construção de um túnel por baixo do muro que separa Berlim Oriental da parte Ocidental para buscar seus familiares do outro lado da fronteira. O projeto é aceito por todos e, para financiá-lo, Harry faz um acordo com a rede de TV norte-americana NBC, que terá exclusividade na cobertura do plano.

Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.

The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.

A science fiction comedy directed by Nico Hofmann.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

Munich Film Festival 1985.