Milan Peschel

A drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Theater fun at the School of Magical Animals: The students want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will the rehearsals end in chaos or will the class pull together? And what's up with the strange holes on the school grounds? With the help of the magical animals, the children learn what really matters: teamwork.

Ella and her friends sign up for a song contest that offers her the chance to make it big in the music business. Her strongest competitor is rapper alfaMK, who already has a fan base and is also outrageously good-looking.

Ida has a hard time making friends. One day, her weird class teacher announces that everyone in the class will have a magical animal with them. Ida is put to the side of the fox Rabbat. Benni, just like Ida also an outsider, has the turtle Henrietta as a new companion. Together they have amazing adventures ahead of them, but will they be able to fulfill the main requirement of the "Magic Pet Shop": to keep their new friends a secret from adults?

Sem saber no que está se metendo, uma jovem é aliciada pela mesma organização que matou sua família em um atentado terrorista.

A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.

Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time.

Roy derrapa feio na véspera do casamento e, para não perder a noiva, acaba aceitando correr contra uma nova adversária na pista de Nürburgring, na Alemanha.

A year has gone by since Jim Button and his best friend, the engine driver Luke, returned from their dangerous adventure in Dragon City. Life on Morrowland goes its leisurely way again. Suddenly, dark clouds are gathering over the tranquil island of Morrowland: the notorious pirate gang "The Wild 13" has learned that the dragon Mrs Grindtooth has been conquered by Jim and Luke and now swears revenge. To protect Morrowland from another threat, the two of them set off with their steam engines Emma and Molly on a dangerous journey where they meet old friends like princess Li Si, Mr. Tur Tur and Nepomuk and make new friends with Sursulapichi, a real mermaid. On their adventure, Jim's most fervent wish might also come true: to find out the truth about his mysterious origins.

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives.

In Hamburg's Elbtunnel, a man is shot in the middle of a traffic jam in his car. The murder victim obviously belonged to a group trying to discover abandoned places first. The investigators suspect an act of revenge by a competitor.

Four troubled friends who despite the feeling that they live standardized lives share a flat under the sceptical looks of their neighbours.

Lotta, 11 years old, and best friend Cheyenne don't get along with the arrogant Berenike, so they don't want to let it bother them when they're the only ones not invited to her party.

When Willi's father is abducted and is only released for a valuable statue from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi that the police are on the wrong track. Together with the smart policeman's daughter Gaby and the highly intelligent outsider Karl, they start to investigate on their own. Against all odds the four discover a conspiracy. In the course of their first big detective adventure they grow together into a committed community, and so Tim, Klöschen, Karl and Gaby become the band TKKG.

Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, Ella adopts a half-breed called Bozer, who jumbled up her everyday life, but also makes her happy again. Cecile, on the other hand, is about to divorce, but the meek four-legged Simpson averts the worst and is also there for the children. Silke works as a dog trainer and knows very well about the animals, but she has her problems with her fellow human beings. She meets former footballer Olli. And also Lulu has met someone, but her acquaintance is a dog lover, while she has a preference for cats.

Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Lena is in love with her brother Noah. In the desperate attempt to conquer her feelings, she retreats into a world of her own.

Uma aventura para toda a família. Um garotinho órfão à procura de suas origens; uma jovem princesa mantida prisioneira em uma cidade terrível; Jim e o seu amigo Lucas descobrindo terras misteriosas na aventura de suas vidas.

En route to a party they are not keen on attending, the Famous Five are almost relieved when Aunt Fanny's car breaks down, stranding them in a small town. To pass the time, they visit the local natural history museum, where some newly-discovered dinosaur bones are being unveiled. Here they meet Marty, who tells them that his father, long dead, supposedly found a complete dinosaur skeleton and made a map of its whereabouts. Unfortunately the map has been stolen. Unable to let a good mystery go unsolved, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy, join a guided hike through the Valley of Dinosaurs. But their fact-finding mission soon turns into a race to find the dinosaur when they suspect that the thief is one of the group.

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.

Nos últimos instantes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, um indivíduo de 19 anos esfarrapado e faminto rouba a farda de uma capitão. Representando um oficial, ele consegue reunir um grupo de desertores que começa a matar e saquear através do caminho em uma Alemanha nazista.

The Kingdom of Lichterwald is facing financial ruin and only by marrying a wealthy bride can Prince Augustin hope to prevent worse. He decides to marry no less than the Emperor's daughter, Victoria.

After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.

Jana é uma jovem de 17 anos que tem um problema cardíaco congênito. Mas, contrariando todas as expectativas, ela ama mergulhar em novos desafios e aventuras perigosas. Após criar laços com um cavalo indomável, a menina decide treinar para competir em uma corrida, preocupando ainda mais os pais e arriscando a própria vida.

Kati has had her dream man at home for five years: attractive, loyal and professionally successful as a doctor. Unfortunately, "her" Felix now spends so much time at work in the hospital that Kati too often feels alone. When she met the good-looking, charming artist Mathias, it hit her like Felix did back then. Shortly before her last inhibitions fall, fate shuffles the cards in an unbelievable way: after a car accident, Kati wakes up in the past - exactly on the day five years ago when she accidentally met Felix

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by the German government. Their mission is to rescue the interim president of the divided Republic of Katschekistan, who has been kidnapped by separatists, along with Berlin's official man on the ground, Franz Kern. To keep Jochen and his maybe no longer so crack team under control, all of whom are determined to prove they were treated unfairly by history, they are put under the command of the young and enthusiastic BND agent Paula Kern.

In Part Three, entitled "The Last Fight," gangster Santer Jr. attempts to seize an oil well on Indian territory. To prevent this, Winnetou and Old Shatterhand must reconcile the warring Indian tribes so that they can take up the fight against the henchmen of the criminal.

In the second part of the German remake of the Winnetou films, Winnetou's sister Nscho Tschi is kidnapped by a brutal crook who wants to find a mythical Apache treasure. Old Shatterhead and Winnetou get forced to search for the precious in the silver sea by their evil opponent El Mas Loco.

The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.

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.

O velho Fitzke morreu e deixou para Rico sua amada coleção de pedras. Rico e Oskar descobrem que a pedra mais valiosa da coleção foi roubada e seus instintos de detetive são imediatamente despertados! Por sorte, a mãe de Rico acabou de voar para o Sri Lanka, então os dois meninos espertos seguem a pedra roubada até o Mar Báltico.

It's Men's Day, Men's Day, Father's Day, Ascension Day - many terms, one date, but always a reason to celebrate. Having just finished school, five Bavarian friends start a common tradition: Every year they want to get together on Men's Day and douse their friendship properly. But every good resolution eventually dies, and so after 20 years most of them lost contact.

O jovem jornalista Sebastian Zöllner está escrevendo um artigo sobre o biografia do pintor Manuel Kaminski, um artista esquecido que vive sozinho nos Alpes. Para levantar sua carreira, Zöllner tem o plano de publicar o livro, mas apenas quando Kaminski falecer, a fim de lucrar com as vendas.

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.

Rico e Oskar, os pequenos grandes heróis, estão de volta: e uma nova aventura emocionante aguarda os dois amigos inseparáveis. Os dois estão incógnitos em seu novo caso. No bingo semanal organizado por Ellie Wandbeck, eles descobrem que há trapaça quando os prêmios são entregues.

Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them.

Once Upon a Time there lived a brave man, Michael, who was unaware what fear is. At the same time, Princess Elisabeth lived with her father, the king, in a makeshift tent city, because their castle was uninhabitable and haunted by ghosts, its treasure cursed. If he wants to know how to shudder, he should visit this Haunted Castle.

Quando ladrões invadem o castelo Falkenstein, a bruxinha Bibi sua amiga Tina caçam os bandidos e ainda armam um plano para salvar a fazenda dos vizinhos da falência.

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.

Enquanto coleta pistas, Rico, que se descreve como "totalmente desprovido de talento", conhece o extremamente talentoso Oskar, que sempre usa um capacete por segurança. Os meninos se tornam amigos e saem à procura do famoso sequestrador "Mister 2000" em Berlim. Mas então Oskar desaparece repentinamente. Rico quer encontrar seu amigo e precisa reunir toda a coragem que tem para salvá-lo...

Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...

Um caixa é raptado durante um assalto a banco e percebe que sua vida não era tão ruim quanto parecia.

Mary (Camille Rutherford) foi destinada a se tornar a rainha da França. Mas depois que seu jovem marido morre, ela volta sozinha para a Escócia, um país devastado pela guerra. Ao mesmo tempo, Elizabeth acaba de se tornar a rainha da Inglaterra. Mary se casa novamente, com Lord Darnley (Aneurin Barnard), e tem um herdeiro, mas ela encontra o amor verdadeiro nos braços do Conde de Bothwell (Sean Biggerstaff). Quando seu segundo marido é assassinado e ela assume seu amor publicamente, tanto os nobres como o povo a desprezam. Para evitar uma guerra, Mary terá que desistir de sua felicidade.

O funcionário de uma agência de divórcios, que auxilia casais a se separarem, Paul Voigt (Matthias Schweighöfer), recebe uma proposta inusitada de um cliente. Apesar de seu emprego, ele tem seus próprios pensamentos e ideologia sobre o amor e relacionamentos.

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.

Frank recebe junto à esposa a notícia de que tem um tumor inoperável no cérebro e que pouco tempo de vida lhe resta. Ele decide lutar contra a doença e aproveitar o tempo com a mulher e os filhos, mas a convivência com o problema parece ser muito mais difícil do que todos imaginariam.

An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

Um jovem professor é abandonado pela namorada e passa a viver com uma antiga amiga, por quem era apaixonado quando criança. Agora, ele quer descobrir porque o seu relacionamento não deu certo e o que define um homem.

Na Alemanha de 1874 um professor formado pela Universidade de Oxford usa o futebol para ensinar o vocabulário a seus alunos.

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à-trois. They get to know each other and themselves.

This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.

Em 1968, Otti (Gudrun Ritter) já havia tido cinco maridos e um sexto que não durará muito tempo, quando ela descobre que o velho nazista Fisch-Winkler (Horst Krause) e o ex-combatente espartano Karl Wegner (Michael Gwisdek) voltarão. Otti se apaixona por Karl e de repente Fisch-Winkler morre. Holger tem as características de um detetive amador e aprende muito sobre o amor, as revoltas de 1968 e como se pode ganhar mais das mulheres com segredos "revolucionários". Tudo vai bem até Holger (Samuel Schneider) cometer um erro que coloca Karl em perigo.

The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by the friesian princess Okka. In the very moment that the crew have mutinied and co-captain Michels is literally at the end of his tether, they discover on board their ramshackle old tub a most unique wonder weapon. Glory days are quickly revived - until the mighty Hanse consolidate their power and weaponry and go to war against the pirates. Störtebeker and Michels are forced to decide: To live as a farmer or to die as a pirate.

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.

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.

A história gira em torno da vida inquieta de Uschi Obermaier, ícone rebelde do movimento cultural alemão em 1968. Aos 16 anos de idade, Uschi entediou-se com seu trabalho num laboratório de fotografia e logo tornou-se figurinha fácil na cena de Munique - sendo chamada de "A Garota". Ao conhecer Rainer Langhans, decide se mudar com ele para Berlim e viver no "Kommune 1", a primeira organização política comunista da Alemanha. Mas ela era vista como uma garota pouco politizada. De fato, Uschi queria epenas se divertir, trabalhar com moda e acompanhar estrelas da música internacional, como Keith Richards, Mick Jagger e outros...

The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto: Genius writes its own rules. Against a background of kitsch global tourism - provided by the authentic Zermatt locations - Thomas Imbach's Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation.

Black Sheep (original title: Schwarze Schafe) is a german/swiss black and white movie. It's separated into five episodes, which tell stories of the Berlin city life. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world. An anarchist, humorous black comedy about life in Berlin.

A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her boyfriend, nor her colleague can penetrate. Hannah (Nina Hoss) may appear perfect on the surface, but her inner demons are slowly consuming her. A photo laboratory developer who rarely ventures out of her well-fortified apartment, Hannah finds that her repressed memories are unexpectedly jogged by a series of old photographs.

Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed". All that in set designer Bert Neumann's industrial-designed bungalow (with swimming pool) built onto forbidding landscape.

A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new direction, namely Hoederer's line. Now Hugo must die.

Continuation of The School of the Magical Animals