Christian Redl

The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...

Клаус Бург всегда помогал своим клиентам на суде, выступая в роли адвоката. Но где ему самому искать защиты, когда из-за последнего дела пропала собственная дочь и его обвинили в похищении?

While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Prince Max of Baden he finds an ally who offers him government participation under his chancellorship. In the meantime, discontent with the monarchy is steadily increasing in the last days of the war, but Emperor Wilhelm II remains steadfast in his throne.

Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.

Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple.

A portrait movie about the famous German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.

Вторая Мировая война подходит к концу. Тяжелые затяжные бои изматывают обе стороны. Но чем увереннее наступают советские войска, тем чаще на полях сражений появляется огромным неуязвимый немецкий танк «Белый Тигр». Внезапно возникает он в дыму сражений, безжалостно расстреливает своих противников и неожиданно исчезает. Советское командование решает для борьбы с «Белым Тигром» создать особый танк — специальную модель Т-34.

В тайных хранилищах Ватикана сокрыта история запрещенной страсти и интриги, державшаяся в секрете Католической церковью более тысячи лет. Хотя официально Ватикан до сих пор не признал того факта, что два года на святом престоле пребывала женщина, легенды об этом бытуют до сих пор.Год 814 от Рождества Христова. 28 января умирает Карл Великий, в тот же день рождается Иоанна — страстная натура, умевшая любить, рисковать и побеждать…

When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.

Германия XVII-го столетия. 30-летняя война и чума сделали 13-летнего мальчика по имени Крабат сиротой. В поисках крова и еды, он таинственным образом попадает на мельницу, где становится учеником ее хозяина. Вскоре Крабат узнает, что мельница — школа черной магии и плата за уроки Мастера высока…

В фильме показана история женщины, которая оставляет свой родной город ради многообещающей работы и новой жизни, преодолевая возникающие трудности на пути. Ее брак разрушен, в родном городе нет перспектив. Уехав на Запад Германии, Йелла вовлекается в мир безжалостного и крупного бизнеса. И, казалось бы, все складывается успешно, но в самый неожиданный момент возникает угроза для ее новой жизни — бывший муж Бен…

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the third Reich which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the catacombs of his bunker under the Reich Chancellery in the capital city of Berlin, which Adolf Hitler wanted to make to the centre of the world, the dictator operates with ghost divisions during the final days of the war. Only in the final moment, he takes his own life. Meanwhile, On the streets, in the ruins, and the basements of the destroyed city, the final battle wages on: Adolescents are sacrificed without purpose, women get raped, loyal party comrades commit suicide in the thousands, Jews who were in hiding for years hope for the liberation.

Апрель 1945 года. Советские войска сжимают кольцо вокруг столицы Третьего рейха - Берлина. Перед лицом неминуемого поражения нацистская верхушка ищет спасение в секретном бункере, не желая покидать обезумевшего фюрера. Отвергнув предложения о побеге, Гитлер утверждает, что победа близка. Он приказывает сравнять Германию с землёй и обсуждает детали своего самоубийства. Последнее убежище палачей пронизано агонией и страхом. И лишь те, кто выйдут живыми из этого бетонного ада, смогут поведать историю о последних минутах жизни и мрачном падении диктатора и его режима.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

Выпускник полицейской школы Марк начинает работать в убойном отделе под руководствам комиссара Минкса. И с первого же дня Марк начинает принимать участие в расследовании весьма необычного дела. Неизвестный серийный убийца сдирает татуированную кожу со своих жертв и за большие суммы продает ее любителям запретной экзотики.С помощью приехавшей из Нью-Йорка Майи, подруги одной из убитых, полицейские нападают на след. Но каждый, кто пытается отыскать таинственного преступника-садиста, оказывается затянут в жуткий кровавый водоворот извращенных страстей, а в конце пути его поджидает мучительная смерть.

Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the story reveals how tangibly interconnected our induividual fates really are. Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night. Drowning in human incidents.

A love story between a former Olympic swimmer turned jewel thief and a pastry chef/sex worker.

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.

Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, Karl becomes unable to work, forcing Zobel and Lizzie to seek out a new partner. Lizzie recruits Rudolf, the boyishly charming town misfit. Reluctantly, Zobel allows Rudolf to join them but warns him to never break the golden rule: "No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team." This dictum becomes increasingly difficult to live by as Lizzie's cravings and Zobel's own passions toward Rudolf intensify. Eventually, the golden rule is broken by Lizzie...and then again by Zobel (unbeknownst to Lizzie, of course). An intricate love triangle soon develops amongst the three that is shaped by deception, desire, and betrayal.

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

Драма, поставленная по книге "В тени Гитлера" Ярона Сворэя и Ника Тэйлора, основана на реальных событиях, происшедших в Германии, где официально действуют 82 организации партий правого крыла, совершивших за последние три года более 6000 террористических актов. Американский журналист Ярон Сворэй отправляется на два дня в Германию для освещения выступления неонацистов — бритоголовых, как их еще называют. Но увиденное там так потрясло Ярона, что он решил выйти на заправил неофашистского движения. Коричневая чума выросла из коротких штанишек, и в Америке есть много организаций подобного типа, борющихся за чистоту белой расы старыми, проверенными способами.

When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise. She believes that the Satan disciples are involved in the case.

This movie depicts the story of Erwin Makolajczyk, a psychopath who killed 9 people in a courtroom on the 9th of March 1994.

Feature film.

This TV-Movie is based on real events that took place in southern Germany in the mid 80's. A policeman tries to build a house for his family while he experiences financial troubles; everything goes tragically wrong from then on.

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa. But he never wrote to his wife Rita. He only wired her a money transfer every month. In the meantime, Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI. Fred rents a room in the "Royal", a sleazy hotel. There, he meets Alma, who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy - the aging hotel director. A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera, who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time, dissipates into a brief carnal episode