A young policewoman from Hamburg is torn between rigid adherence to her professional ideals and the testosterone-fueled power lust of her head of operations. After her training at the police academy, 24-year-old Laura begins her service in a task force of the Hamburg riot police. Sooner than expected, she realizes that the daily routine in the social hot spots of society is draining. When she makes a serious mistake during an operation, she has to decide what kind of policewoman she really wants to be.
Jurek
Lisa está saindo do apartamento onde vive com Mara e Markus, e sua mudança significa o fim de uma era. À medida que caixas são deslocadas, paredes pintadas e armários construídos, os abismos começam a se abrir. Enquanto Lisa está ansiosa pela mudança, Mara enfrenta uma montanha-russa de emoções.
Carlotta
Em 1982, o genial cineasta alemão Rainer Werner Fassbinder morreu de overdose, com apenas 37 anos, deixando uma obra impressionante para sua pouca idade. Em menos de duas décadas, ele produziu mais de 60 filmes e diversas peças, além de colaborar em outras funções, como ator, montador, roteirista. Essa é a fascinante história de um dos mais importantes representantes do Novo Cinema Alemão, cuja ascensão fulminante como um dos principais diretores da Europa coincide com sua queda mental e física, que levaram à sua morte prematura.
Uwe Leitner
Lothar
Goldmund estuda no mosteiro Mariabronn. Seu pai o enviou para lá. Lá ele conhece um monge chamado Narciso, que se submeteu a uma vida voltada exclusivamente ao desenvolvimento espiritual. O encontro dos dois abalará suas crenças para sempre.
Erich Leschke
Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.
Falter
Dr. Bix
Oehlke
Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. 30 years after the hopeful young band Bochums Steine have separated after a disastrous live performance, fatally ill Rainer tries to re-activate his old cronies
Theo's Father
Luke, investigador GSG-10, e Theo, policial, têm que se unir quando Mascha, a filha do presidente da Moldávia, é sequestrada do Palácio de Bellevue, na Alemanha. Em sua missão de resgate, os dois deixam um enorme rastro de devastação, com seus métodos nada convencionais. Junto com a hacker Nicki, eles descobrem uma conspiração que revela que o sequestro é mais do que um mero pedido de resgate.
Krant
Os Alpes Ötztal, há mais de 5 300 anos. Um clã neolítico se instalou perto de um riacho onde seu líder, Kelab, é o guardião do santuário sagrado, Tineka. Um dia, enquanto Kelab foi caçar, o assentamento é atacado e os membros da tribo assassinados brutalmente, incluindo a esposa e o filho de Kelab. O santuário sagrado é roubado e o único sobrevivente é um bebê recém nascido. Cegado pela dor, Kelab começa uma jornada para se vingar e não tem outra escolha além de levar a criança com ele.
Karl Fischer
A execução de 200 combatentes da resistência grega e comunistas pelos ocupantes alemães em 1 de maio de 1944 em Kaisariani, como represália à emboscada da resistência grega contra os nazistas.
Mac
Há poucos anos, alienígenas invadiram a órbita terreste e destruíram rapidamente toda a civilização humana. Poucos foram os sobreviventes, que agora vivem completamente isolados no subterrâneo para não serem capturados. O militar S.U.M1, um desses humanos, é enviado sozinho para uma missão em uma floresta para resgatar algumas pessoas, e lá vai observar que boa parte do mistério envolvendo os invasores não foi revelado ainda.
Axel Rotteck
Mahler
Alemanha Oriental, 1987. A polícia designa o investigador especial Mahler para solucionar o caso do desaparecimento do menino Henry Kiefer, de 6 anos, antes que essa questão leve a tensões políticas com o Ocidente. Dizendo-se possuir habilidades paranormais, o investigador está disposto a trazer à luz todos os mistérios que envolvem esta tragédia familiar. Baseado em uma história real.
Bommer
Trainer Henry
Jakob Munk
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.
Udo
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…
Polizeichef
Germany in the not-too-distant future: The borders are closed, refugees are collected in camps and turned away or accepted. The mood is charged, a police detachment is responsible for keeping the crowd in check. Volt is one of the cops. He accidentally kills a French refugee. The violence spirals out of control. Volt starts up a relationship with the sister of the man he killed and winds up between the fronts.
Burkhard
Jonathan tem 23 anos; Ele e sua tia, Martha, trabalham em sua fazenda. Jonathan também se dedica a cuidar de seu pai Burghardt, que tem câncer. Mas seu pai obstinadamente sabota todos os esforços do filho para cuidar dele. Um dia, Ron, um amigo de infância de Burghardt há muito perdido, aparece em cena e a saúde de Burghardt melhora visivelmente. A família vê Ron como um intruso; E então Jonathan descobre que, muitos anos atrás, seu pai e Ron eram profundamente apaixonados.
De uma vez, toda a fachada de crenças familiares amargas se desmorona e segredos longamente reprimidos vem a tona. Jonathan pode perdoar o pai?
Torsten Gütschow
Klaus Steiner
Torsten Fiedler
Continuity begins as a straight-forward story of an emotional homecoming and turns uncanny as the two protagonists – a middle aged couple living in a small town in Germany – repeatedly invite different young men into their home to perform an inscrutable ritual. This is a remake of Continuity (2012) by the same director, expanding on the original idea.
Joe
A psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man.
Herdal
Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play.
Chapayev
A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Hauptwachtmeister
Coming of Age Drama in rural Poland in the summer of 1943.
Andi
Em um clube, Victoria (Laia Costa) conhece Sonne (Frederick Lau), que está no local com seus amigos, e, rapidamente, há uma forte conexão entre eles. Mas o ínicio do romance é interrompido quando o grupo de jovens é forçado a pagar uma antiga dívida. Victoria, impulsivamente, decide ajudá-los e entra no jogo como uma motorista. Mas o que começou como uma louca aventura pode se tornar um pesadelo.Filme internacional, mas com uma historia no mínimo intrigante e cheia de suspense que com certeza é bom conferir.
Hermann van Pels
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding from the Nazis. With this docu-drama, the first major German film adaptation of the life story of the Frankfurt girl is now available. The film follows Anne's fate from a happy childhood to hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on the relationship between father and daughter. Otto Frank was the only one who survived the betrayal of the Secret Annex residents. The most secret thoughts and longings
Without having been invited, Schuhmann arrives at his son’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in years, but still it seems that Stefan resembles his father more than he wants to…
Klaus (Segment "Roulette")
A antologia de 26 novos capítulos que mostram a morte em toda sua maravilhosa e viciosa beleza brutal.
Adrian
Gelsomina vive com os pais e as três irmãs em uma região da Itália onde produzem mel. Afastadas do mundo pelo pai e tendo uma próxima relação com a natureza, vivem os problemas e os sonhos quando um jogo televisivo invade a região.
Josef Augstein
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Teufel
When the farm boy Felix is born with a caul, the rumor spreads in no time that this boy can succeed in anything. One day he would even marry the princess - he just has to trust in his own destiny. But the king and alchemist Ottokar, however is obsessed only with gold and wealth, seeks to kill the child, by throwing him in a river.
Wettke
After 16 years in jail is Harms attracted by the big bucks: a raid on the central bank, 70 to 100 millions in cash. A former staff member can arrange access to the bank. However, the team needs to be careful - too many bills, too many problems. One third of the money should suffice but Harms underestimated the deadly power of greed. The project gets out of control...
Lothar
All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows their trail across the country. He meets the occasional young person but the trail goes cold. In the next city he encounters militia groups and a reinforced police presence. Children are forbidden to be on the streets unless accompanied by adults. The world has changed...
Victor
BND-Agent Bruhns
Schwarzer Ritter
German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“.
Urban
Katrine is excited to be moving into her own dorm room at university, leaving her over-protected father and the memory of her breakdown behind her. Enjoying her new found freedom things soon turn ugly though as she falls foul of the local ‘in’ crowd, who start to bully her. Katrine discovers that this group were responsible for the death of the previous occupant of the room, who is now out for revenge and becomes trapped in the middle of this nightmare. Inspired by (but in no way a copy of) Candyman and Ringu, Room 205 is an effective chiller that oozes tension as it builds to its shocking climax.
Kurt Matzinger
Anna, an attractive woman of 40 years, lives with her husband Johann and his small daughter. Both have managed to succeed economically and lead a helpless life. Suddenly appears a dark character, associated with the underworld, who begins to blackmail Anna, threatening to reveal his past.
Professor Eugen Bleuler
Dirigido pelo cultuado David Cronenberg, o longa é uma mostra de como a relação entre Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) e Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) faz nascer a psicanálise. Aborda a intensa e polêmica relação da dupla com a paciente Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). O filme foi exibido em primeira mão no Festival de Veneza de 2011 e conquistou uma indicação ao Globo de Ouro de Melhor Ator Coadjuvante para Mortensen.
Axel
Um fantoche humano que durante uma noite vai atuar para a jovem Enola Penny. Ela vive obcecada com um teatro que acha estar abandonado. Quando arranja coragem e entra no decrépito auditório, vai descobrir seis contos de horror e bizarria.
Kommissar Kaspar Grimm
Dr. Sophie Schöner is to treat patients in a hospital in Berlin as a trial with traditional Chinese medicine. It quickly comes to a conflict with the local chief physician. The unequal balance of power provides professionally for plenty of controversy. The fact that the two are attractive does not make things easier.
Apotheker
Um jovem albanês vai para Berlim ilegalmente, com o intuito de ganhar dinheiro e pagar pelo casamento com sua amada noiva que está grávida. Sem experiência ou conhecimento da língua, ele precisa aprender a sobreviver duramente.
Willy Wittmann
Biron
Um pedaço de período abrangente e enérgico que traça a ascensão do Henrique Protestante de Navarra ao passar do guerreiro do campo de batalha para o amado rei Henri IV da França. O épico do diretor Jo Baier é uma aventura classicamente divertida, ainda que com mais do que um pequeno derramamento de sangue e freqüentes interlúdios sexuais obscenos. Na França do final do século XVI, católicos e protestantes huguenotes estavam em guerra. Aparentemente buscando a paz, a rainha viúva francesa, Catherine de Medici convoca Henry para sua corte para que ele se case com a filha, unindo as duas facções em guerra. No entanto, os católicos massacraram os convidados do casamento protestante no que ficou conhecido como o massacre do Dia de São Bartolomeu e Henrique - agora casado - deve usar toda a sua astúcia para se manter vivo e manobrar para o trono. [Escrito pelo Festival Internacional de Cinema de Palm Springs]
Peter Brandt
A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the enzymatic apparatus for multiplying any viral nucleic acids.
Jürgen Weiss
Esta é a trágica história de Jacob (Oskar Bokelmann), um menino de onze anos que cresce em uma família de classe trabalhadora. O alcoolismo coloca sua mãe em um hospital psiquiátrico, e seu pai, desesperado por sua incapacidade de educar o filho, suicida-se na sala de casa. Temendo ter que ir para um orfanato, Jacob tenta esconder a morte de seu pai. Agora, capaz de fazer coisas mais livremente, começa a desenvolver hábitos diferentes dos de seu pai.
Hunter Leader
Em 500 anos a humanidade estará migrando do Planeta Terra pois ele estará morrendo. É quando dois homens acordam em uma nave espacial. Sem saber onde estão, o que estão fazendo lá e quanto tempo se passou uma sensação imediata de vazio é substituída pelo medo que logo se tornará algo inimaginável. Com as poucas lembranças de fatos passados nas suas vidas eles terão que lutar pela sobrevivência de toda a raça humana.
Horst Peuckert
Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret agents until he realizes that the Stasi still has very different plans with him.
Berthoni
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Wüllersdorf
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.
Friedrich
Thomas and Hanna, a deliriously happy couple in their late 30s, buy an old house in the country with plans to fix it up over the summer. Hanna is looking forward to their time together – so when Thomas invites his older brother, Friedrich, who is deeply depressed over the failure of both his business and his marriage, to join them, she is disappointed by the intrusion. Easygoing, charming, and talkative, Thomas seeks to counterbalance the cloudier mood with an impetuous frenzy of activity, but Hanna retreats into sullenness and retaliates by bringing in her nubile young godchild Augustine until things smooth themselves out. Augustine’s youthful sexiness has anything but a soothing impact on Thomas, however, whose adolescent impulses linger just below the surface.
Leon
Depois de ser expulso do exército, Thomas volta para a sua terra natal, Jerichow. Logo depois, é contratado como motorista por Ali, um empresário turco-alemão dono de uma cadeia de snack-bar. Ao se apaixonar por Laura, a atraente esposa do patrão, nasce um clássico triângulo amoroso.
Luis pays a visit to his father in the mountains. He has not seen him for several years. When he arrives at the remote holiday home he is more than surprised to encounter his father’s new family – about whom his father made no mention. Torn between his desire to be with his father and his anger and frustration over his father’s new-found happiness, Luis tries to provoke his father and break down his reserve.
Gosch
O filme centra-se no destino de três gerações de uma família de comerciantes no norte da Alemanha, mostrando a ascensão e queda de seus integrantes. Numa sociedade pronta para a mudança, os valores familiares parecem também condenados a se transformar.
Heinrich Wolf
East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies with socialism and believes he has to defend his country against the capitalist enemy. While Jürgen is astonished, his wife Hanna and Marco's girlfriend Anja, supporting the civil rights movement, don't like his new attitude...
Dr. Josef Rudolf
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Father Superior
Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordination.
Alfred Wittmann
Christoph
Baseado numa história real, fala sobre o jovem Eduart, um rapaz que cresceu no centro de uma família opressiva e cruel, que decide fugir da Albânia com o sonho de se tornar uma estrela do rock e conquistar uma vida melhor. Sua personalidade impulsiva, no entanto, o leva a cometer um assassinato em Atenas, Grécia. Perseguido por todos, o rapaz é feito prisioneiro. Na cadeia, Eduart recebe a ajuda de um médico alemão que o fará ver a vida de outra forma. O rapaz aprende a ter simpatia pelos outros e admite sua culpa. Por meio de seu remorso, encontra forças para se reerguer.
Friedländer
Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hitherto ordinary man one day finds himself on a journey to Nairobi to get his money back, and perhaps his human dignity as well.
Sascha
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
Dieter
Since 1980 German institutions send teens to the south of Portugal under experimental projects of social rehabilitation. That's how Katrin comes to Alentejo. She will establish a unique relationship with the surrounding environment, a situation exacerbated by the harshness of the landscape and the emptiness of a socially desertified region. Katrin, twith Julia and Pedro, will build a refuge in a no-man's-land...
Dietmar Kreuzer
Gabriel Engel
Depois que o notório assassino em série Gabriel Engel foi apreendido pela polícia de uma pequena cidade, o policial Michael Martens começa a interroga-lo. Engel é suspeito do seqüestro e assassinato de uma menina da cidade e enquanto a relação entre o suspeito e o policial se aprofunda, logo se torna evidente para Martens que isso pode ter um preço.
Richter Dr. Roland Freisler
Em 1943, Hitler marcha pela Europa em sua devastadora ofensiva. Em Munique, um grupo de jovens universitários apela para a resistência como forma de conter a máquina de guerra nazista. Assim, nasce o Rosa Branca. A única mulher que participa do grupo é Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch). Enquanto distribuíam panfletos Sophie e seu irmão, Hans (Fabian Hinrichs), são presos. Os dias que se seguem são de intensos interrogatórios conduzidos pelos oficiais da Gestapo, nos quais ela tenta proteger a qualquer custo os membros da organização.
Director
Leutnant Müller
SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
Em 1942, o jovem Traudl Junge tem o que parece ser a melhor profissão do mundo: ele é secretário de Hitler. Três anos depois, o império se resume a um abrigo subterrâneo e, de lá, Traudl narra os últimos dias da vida de do ditador.
Marcellus
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
Beck
Robert
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
Thomas Richter
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing.
Müller
Willi Bauknecht
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o soldado alemão Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann) é capturado e mantido prisioneiro em um campo de concentração na Sibéria. Após quatro anos de trabalho escravo nas minas, ele consegue finalmente escapar. Mas para retornar para sua família, Forell, no entanto, precisa atravessar um percurso de 14 mil quilômetros a pé. Por três longos anos ele tenta se manter vivo, enfrentando os perigos e as surpresas da natureza. Porém, seu maior desafio será escapar da trilha de seu perseguidor implacável, Kamenev (Anatoly Kotenyov), que tem a missão de levar o fugitivo de volta à prisão. Vivo ou morto.
Detektiv
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
Director
Gasko
Bernhard
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.
Alex
6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end.
Henry
Karl-Heinz Zöllner
The blind psychologist Tom Leschek and the therapist Jessica van der Laan are after their first successful mission, a team that is again requested when a suicide wants to plunge from a skyscraper. The young woman was held captive for months in a basement prison by arms dealer Hübner as a slave. Tom tries to convince the desperate not to jump. When she flees again and shoots Hübner, she takes Tom hostage.
Marcel Lobe
Karl-Heinz Zöllner
Pferdehändler
Edgar 'Ed' Fürst
Michel
After the death of her father, Maria travels to Berlin to visit her elder sister Helena, a dancer, who she hasn't seen for years. However, when she arrives in Berlin she finds out that Helena has quit dancing and now works as a croupier in an illegal gambling club. As the two sisters' relationship gradually becomes closer, Maria must draw Helena away from the underworld and help her overcome her dangerous addiction to gambling.
Producer
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Dr. Martin Auerbach
Robert Willhagen
Danner
Stefan
Donusa is a small island in the Aegean, visited by the mainline ship once a week. One winter day a young German photographer, Stefan, arrives and soon feels strangely attracted to a local girl called Eleni. The stranger’s presence works as a catalyst shedding light on Donusa’s conventions.
A group of young people draws straws to see who'll steal some cigarettes. With this theft, Sebastian starts a bizarre, symbolic odyssey through a sclerotic world, in search of himself and of truth and justice. When he tries withdrawing from one social paradigm, he finds himself caught in another.
Martin Farth
Emil Wünsche
Stummer Gast
East Berlin, 1989: 30-year-old photojournalist Georg follows a beautiful, mysterious dancer Miss Albena. Blinded by love, he dreams about her. His imagination and reality – a world in the midst of radical social change – get mixed up.
Direktor
A small town shortly before the end of the GDR: 15-year-old Ulla lives with her mother in a dilapidated old building where not even the electricity works properly. Economy of scarcity and national bankruptcy are visible everywhere. Only higher party comrades live in the lap of luxury. When Ulla meets Winfried after a summer bathing trip, the two fall in love. Winfried is the son of an influential general director and owns things from West Germany that others only dream of: a computer, a games console, a walkman. On an excursion with her biology class, the high school student discovers that a dacha is being built in the middle of the nature reserve and the creek has been dammed. Winfried's father turns out to be the culprit, but the mayor is on his side. Ulla rebels against this environmental destruction connected to political corruption and organizes a protest. Her activism not only endangers her own future, but also her first great love.
Menschenaffe
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns - satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their pieces, however, the country sinks into rebellion, the prison is attacked and looted, and the people chase the clowns away. Latest from the Da-Da-R was the first film made by an artistic production group that had fought for independence within the structures of the state-owned DEFA film studio for years. "Da-Da-R" is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany- the DDR.
Film by Bernhard Stephan.
Bräutigam
Junger Mann
Narrator (voice)
Martin Brandt (1903-1989), an unforgettable Jewish actor and former member of the Jewish Kulturbund Theater in Berlin, recites from Macbeth and Nathan the Wise, the play that opened the theater in October 1933. These last filmic images of Brandt are combined with historic footage and traces of the Jewish past in Berlin.
Mark Löwenthal
The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.
Bäcker
Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.
Robert
Bärtiger Student
Maja Wegner is in her late thirties and a single mother of a teenage daughter. To give her stale life a new direction, she decides to start all over again in the big city. She sells her house in the countryside, quits her job, and moves with her daughter to Berlin. There, she finds a job as a conductor for the railroad company. Although Maja soon finds new friends in her apartment building, the search for a new life partner does not come off so easily.
Loosi
