Günter Rohrbach

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.

At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the German population was suddenly reminded of the terrible Nazi crimes against the Jews. What is now expressed with the hitherto unknown word Holocaust, hits many millions of people in the heart. The unexpected echo and the audience reactions were fierce. Even before the TV broadcast neo-Nazis blasted in vain transmitting towers in Germany to prevent this. From the creation and the shooting over the broadcast to the tremendous reactions, documentary filmmaker Alice Agneskirchner tells the story of this emotional television event, which led to a paradigm shift in the perception of German Nazi crimes.

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

In Ethiopia, Frank Michalka has found a new home and left his criminal past behind. But happiness does not last long and the former offender must go back to Germany. Once there, he immediately falls back into old patterns and robbed a bank.

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

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.

São os últimos dias da guerra. Na cave de um prédio semi-demolido, as pessoas esperam. Conseguiram escapar aos bombardeamentos nocturnos e ao fogo da artilharia. A maior parte destas pessoas são mulheres, que sabem bem o que as espera. A entrada do exército vermelho na cidade está eminente. Naquele prédio, como em muitos outros sítios em Berlim, as mulheres irão ser vítimas de violações. Uma delas é "Anónima", que anteriormente trabalhou como jornalista e fotógrafa. Só que ela não é o género de pessoa que se presta para vítima. Cheia de coragem, determinação e com uma vontade inabalável de defender a sua dignidade, A. toma então uma decisão. Quando puder irá escolher um "lobo", um oficial russo que a possa proteger dos outros. Em contrapartida, irá dormir com ele - de livre vontade. E acontece então aquilo que ela menos esperava. Andrej, o oficial delicado e melancólico, acaba mesmo por despertar o seu interesse.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Carola Lehmann (Nina Hoss) está em férias no Quênia. Quando faltam poucos dias para retornar ela conhece Samburu (Jacky Ido), um guerreiro Lemalian que usa armas e roupas tradicionais. Fascinada, ela logo se apaixona. Carola decide cancelar o vôo de volta e mandar Stefan (Janek Rieke), seu namorado, retornar sozinho, enquanto ela própria percorre o Quênia tentando reencontrar Samburu.

Carola Lehmann (Nina Hoss) está em férias no Quênia. Quando faltam poucos dias para retornar ela conhece Samburu (Jacky Ido), um guerreiro Lemalian que usa armas e roupas tradicionais. Fascinada, ela logo se apaixona. Carola decide cancelar o vôo de volta e mandar Stefan (Janek Rieke), seu namorado, retornar sozinho, enquanto ela própria percorre o Quênia tentando reencontrar Samburu.

Em plena Segunda Guerra, a judia Felice Schragenheim resolve permancer em Berlim, mesmo havendo o perigo de ser capturada a qualquer momento pelos soldados nazistas. Tudo por causa de seu grande amor, Lilly Wust.

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good.

Karl é líder de uma equipe da SWAT. Durante uma operação em uma fortaleza da máfia, um suspeito consegue fugir. Simon reconhece o fugitivo como seu ex-colega Heinz, que supostamente havia cometido suicídio há alguns anos. A busca por esse “fantasma” vira um jogo perigoso para Simon e sua equipe.

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is a film adaptation of the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.

Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1942. O filme traz um retrato da Batalha de Stalingrado vista pelos olhos dos alemães. A história segue um grupo de soldados alemães, desde o fronte italiano no verão de 1942 até as estepes congeladas da Rússia soviética e terminando com a batalha por Stalingrado. Através deles são mostrados os horrores da guerra, o medo, a esperança e todas as emoções dos combatentes envolvidos. Uma descrição da brutal batalha de Stalingrado, a "Waterloo" do Terceiro Reich, vista pelos olhos do oficial alemão Hans von Witzland e por seu batalhão.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.

After ordering enough typewriting paper for 40 years, just to get discount, Heinrich Lohse is forced to retire.

Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey. (IMDb)

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.

Quando o jovem Bastian pegou emprestado um misterioso livro, ele jamais sonhou que ao virar uma página seria levado a um mundo de fantasia onde pudesse ver um caracol de corrida, um morcego planador, um dragão da sorte, elfos, uma Imperatriz Menina, o valente guerreiro Atreyu e uma pedra ambulante chamada Come-Pedra. Você apreciará esta adorável aventura e descobrirá que "A História Sem Fim" é a sua história!

Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, em 1942, o capitão de um submarino enfrenta enormes dificuldades no comando de uma tripulação pouco experiente. Durante a Batalha do Atlântico Norte, eles vivem num inferno claustrofóbico afundando navios ingleses e procurando barcos aliados.