Klaus Manchen

It's Lene's first day back at work after some time off. Friends and acquaintances, regulars and strangers come to her jazz and blues bar. While Lene is waiting for Danish musician Leif, who is scheduled to perform tonight, the guests discuss all kinds of topics, ranging from pop music by elves and invisible cell phones to maggots eating away at corpses. But what if Leif doesn't show up at all?

On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. The persistent darkness makes him increasingly apprehensive. His fellow passengers don’t seem concerned. Even the conductor reassures him that everything is fine. But when he heads to the engineer’s cabin with the chief conductor – they find it empty. And after their effort to pull the emergency break fails, they watch the rapidly accelerating train head straight into a dark abyss.

60-е годы, рыбацкий посёлок на Балтийском море. К началу учебного года после нескольких лет жизни в Англии в поселок возвращается Стелла и устраивается учителем английского в местную школу. Там и вспыхивает у нее бурный роман с 18-летним Кристианом. Но только длился он недолго…

Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is a new closeness. And, when the sun rises over the city and the striking garbage men, finally ensure German order again, nothing is the same for these four men.

The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes?

Christine is tired of life. When her retirement home roommate abducts her for a night in the Hamburg red-light district, she is confronted with a flashy and entertaining world that she feels way to old old for.

Мариса, 20-летняя немка, которую воспитал дед — солдат вермахта. Мариса ненавидит иностранцев, евреев, полицейских. Она считает их виновным в проблемах своей страны. Она наци. И она провоцирует драки и погромы. Ее новая татуировка будет портрет Адольфа Гитлера. Единственное место, где она чувствует себя как дома это со своей нео-нацистской группой, к которой она принадлежит, где правят ненависть, жестокость и насилие. Когда 14-летняя Свеня присоединяется к группе, Мариса для нее, как образец для подражания. Но убеждения иногда меняются… Мариса случайно знакомится с афганским беженцем. Она начинает понимать, что принципы наци не единственный путь. Сможет ли она выбраться из группы своих бывших сподвижников?

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.

Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.

Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.

Деревня в протестантской северной Германии. 1913—1914 года. Канун первой мировой войны. История о детях и подростках церковного хора, поддерживаемого деревенским школьным учителем и их семьями: бароном, управляющим, пастором, доктором, акушеркой, землевладельцами. Происшедший загадочный несчастный случай постепенно принимает характер карательного ритуала. Кто стоит за этим всем?

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.

Чтобы угодить избалованному сынку своей возлюбленной, Фред хочет достать для мальчишки баскетбольный мяч с автографами игроков его любимой команды. Но возникает проблема: такой мяч может получить только инвалид. Фред решает на время сесть в инвалидную коляску и обманом завладеть драгоценным трофеем. Однако получая желанный мяч, Фред привлекает внимание очаровательной девушки-кинорежиссера Денис, которая хочет снять фильм о фанатах-инвалидах…

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...

Немецкое ретро о любовных и политических забавах молодых дрезденцев в 1961 году. ГДР глазами юного провинциала предстает страной первых поцелуев, ночных денс-клубов и безбашенных драчунов с режимом. Вскоре, однако, невинные шалости непуганой молодежи перерастают в серьезные стычки с Системой, романтическое увлечение — в любовную драму, а Берлин оказывается разделенным легендарной Стеной.

События 40-летия ГДР с 7 октября 1989 года до завершения немецкого единства осенью 1990 года были и остаются движущей главой в мировой истории. Автор и режиссер Ханс-Кристоф Блюменберг представляет увлекательный взгляд на политические сцены власти при сборке исторических изображений, сцен и свидетельств современных свидетелей и показывает конфликты, интриги и дискуссии, которые в то время не были обнародованы. Это показывает, насколько мирная революция была на переднем крае и какое международное сопротивление это столкнулось.

Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

Берлин, 1943. До знакомства с Фелис Лили — мать четырех детей — была добропорядочной домохозяйкой. Но эта встреча, перевернувшая всю ее жизнь, стала для молодой женщины новым экспериментом, яркой вспышкой счастья, несмотря на постоянные бомбежки и рейды полиции. Лили развелась с мужем и позволила Фелис переехать к ней, осознавая насколько это опасно: ведь Фелис — еврейка, член подпольной группы сопротивления, попавшая «под колпак» Гестапо…

Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.

In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.

"GDR The uprising of June 17, 1953" - : Since its founding, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) has repeatedly struggled with domestic political problems. While the standard of living of the population in the western part of Germany steadily increased, it stagnated in the GDR . A one-sided, industry-oriented reconstruction policy, coupled with rapid militarization, weighed on the country's economy, which was already under pressure from Soviet reparations demands. A majority of the population did not identify with the socialist system, which accordingly stood on shaky ground.

Susanne (17) and Robert (18) want to get married, but because Susanne is still under-aged, she needs parental permission. With twin babies and tight finances, the newlyweds soon feel overwhelmed, and dealing with everything makes them forget the love that originally brought them together.

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.

Everyone dreams of a horse - and especially four Kulman family children...

The three athletes Holger, Jens, and Ralf are fighting in the Nordic combined for a place in the junior national team. What has begun as fruitful team work in the children and youth sport schools, develops into a strong rivalry among the young men. Each of them excels at only one of the sports - Jens is a brilliant cross-country skier, but a bad ski jumper, and with Holger it is the other way around - thus, they need each other, yet they still fight against each other.

Two best teenage friends spend the summer holidays together in a village. Then a good looking teenage boy appears.

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new legislative session because at seventy-five, she is the oldest representative in the German Reichstag. Although she is ill and almost blind, she see this as her chance to make her voice heard amid the growing Nazi influence in Germany.

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean, which is some thousand kilometers away. An old car picks them up, but the trip ends shortly thereafter in a sleazy motel. At the bar, a man named Landolfi approaches them. He explains to Sauly that he must have sold his guardian angel to a man by the name of Miller in the city of Prince. Though the boys do not believe in guardian angels, Sauly slowly succumbs to his own fears. He would like to have his guardian angel back again. On their trip, Sauly becomes sick. Mick works on a farm to pay the doctor's bills. Once Sauly is well, they travel farther - until they reach Prince. In this mysterious city, all of the people are named Miller, and once Sauly and Mick finally are at the ocean, they meet Landolfi once more.

Белые продвигаются все дальше на Запад через Скалистые горы. Кавалерийские отряды загоняют племя индейцев нэз-перс («продырявленные носы») в резервацию. Чтобы индейцы не могли бежать или сопротивляться, у них реквизируют лошадей. Младший вождь Белое Перо решает вернуть племени лошадей. Он выдает себя за безобидного рыбака и позволяет солдатам арестовать себя. Белые с удовольствием решают использовать его в качестве разведчика («скаута») и поручают ему сопровождать табун лошадей, который нужно перегнать в Форт Лапвай. Табун сопровождают всего семь солдат. Однако в их числе находится смышленый сержант, который оказывается достойным противником для Белого Пера. Белому Перу удается перехитрить солдат и лишить армию, ослабленную другими боями, табуна лошадей.

1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 - a catastrophe he himself survived as a concentration camp prisoner.

Алекс - чемпион школы по лёгкой атлетике, и одновременно - очень мечтательный мальчик. Все бы ничего, да только ему частенько перепадает за опоздания. Впереди соревнования между школами, на Алекса возлагаются большие надежды. Но, судьба золотых медалей под угрозой...

After the accidental death of her mother, 12 year old Nicki must care for the family particularly her two young siblings.

The film tells the story of the smelter brigade of a steel mill whose members are connected by a strong comradeship. Among the workers are, for instance, young Rolf, whom everybody just calls "Lachtaube" and who always comes through for his co-workers, or the likable Hubert, who works as a simple smelter again after being dismissed as the head of the steel mill. Then, there is also the stubborn Manfred, who should have become a brigadier long ago because of his experience and his competence, but this privilege is refused to him because Manfred is not a party member. Ironically, it is Manfred who hears by accident about the plans of the mill to close down the old Martin furnaces – and to lay off the smelters. When the other men learn about the plans they enter the barricades for their jobs and force the plant′s management to face the workers′ demands and criticism.

Film by Bernhard Stephan.

10-year-old Kathy Montag moves to a big city in Brandenburg. Before that, she lived in the Harz Mountains together with her father Peter. Her mother has died a few years ago. The girl finds her new home very exciting, and since Kathy takes an interest in everything she encounters, she keeps finding herself in peculiar situations such as a brigade party or the shooting of a historical epic movie. Her classmates consider her an oddball and even her father is unhappy about his daughter′s development.

Karlemann is very often found in his own 'Robinson world', a secluded place on earth. There he travels the river in his special all-weather boat, and he has his domicile on the river, all built himself. One day he meets two soldiers of the National People's Army who got lost in Karlemann's empire. He shows the them the right way. What Karlemann does not yet suspect: a bridge is to be built over the river at the exact spot where his hut stands...

a tv-movie by Frank Beyer

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spotted a candidate in her fellow factory worker. As she contemplates marrying him, her story is told in a series of flashbacks.

Ноябрьская революция 1918 года в Германии, голод и социальные потрясения вызывают отклик у молодой Советской власти в России. Для оказания продовольственной помощи формируются железнодорожные составы с хлебом. Один из них по личному поручению В.И. Ленина сопровождает молодая революционерка Татьяна. В пути она встречает бывшего немецкого военнопленного Курта. Между ними возникают романтические отношения. Эшелон с хлебом, несмотря на все трудности, доставлен. В столкновении с отрядом контрреволюционных германских войск Татьяна ранена. Она возвращается в Москву, а Курт едет в Берлин для продолжения революционной борьбы.

Film by Ralf Kirsten.

A depiction of class conflicts in Germany between 1918 and 1945. The Spartacist Erwin is shot by officers in 1918, and his pregant working-class bride Marie begins a new relationship with social democrat Geschke. Erwin's son Hans grows up to be a communist like his father, leading to bitter hatred between him and his Nazi step-brother, while Geschke becomes increasingly resigned to the political situation in Germany. The three aristocratic officers who shot Erwin many years ago meet again during the Kapp Putsch, but their support for the Third Reich eventually leads each to their deaths.

Герой фильма лейтенант Геккер с восьми лет жил и воспитывался в СССР, куда эмигрировала его семья. В апреле 1945 года в возрасте 19 лет он ступил на родную землю как переводчик и агитатор политотдела 45 армии, где служил для ведения звуковещательной пропаганды и работы с военнопленными. Действие фильма заканчивается 3 мая 1945 года. За это время наш герой был комендантом города Бернау, освобождал Заксенхаузен, участвовалв переговорах о капитуляции цитадели Шпандау.