Bernhard Schütz

The new Federal Minister of the Interior and Community (Lena Dörrie) is used to mastering big challenges. But a murder at the Conference of Interior Ministers is something else. Especially at the back of the Bavarian beyond, without any cell phone reception, isolated from the outside world. To make matters worse: The 16 interior ministers of the federal states (including Jan Böhmermann, Henny Reents, Christoph Zrenner) are of no help in clarifying the matter.

Анна — актриса с эксцентричным характером и экстравагантной внешностью. Из-за этого страдает репутация, предложений становится все меньше. Однажды Анна соглашается на необычную работу — давать уроки по технике речи юноше из приюта. Она знает, что парень — вор, однако это не мешает их сближению. За встречами, общими разговорами, прогулками и обедами приходит влюбленность. Она кружит голову и заставляет совершать безумные поступки. Так, без гроша в кармане они покидают Западный Берлин и отправляются во Францию к морю…

Judge Praetorius-Camusot’s legal routines are interrupted when the ghost of a member of the Paris Commune turns up at an event celebrating German-French relations. An anarchic comedy about the origins of German criminal law and much, much more.

Похитив известную картину «Чёрный квадрат» Малевича, двое мужчин отправляются на круизный лайнер, где должна состояться встреча с заказчиком. Однако идеальный план рушится, когда произведение искусства внезапно исчезает без следа.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

The first chapter of a pseudo western series, a meditation on mediated violence. Donald Duck, his wife Daisy Duck, their daughter Bonkers, Nancy Reagan, Andy Warhol, John Wayne, Mini, Heidi, Poncho, and the Cartwrights abuse, torture, and kill each other.

Фильм рассказывает историю супружеской пары с лета до зимы 1989 года, которая начинается в провинции Восточной Германии. Поймав Адама на измене, Эвелин решает провести свой отпуск в Венгрии. Адам едет вслед за ней. Венгрия открывает границу с Австрией, и Эвелин решает пересечь ее.

Молодой беженец приехал из Чечни в Германию и был брошен в берлинскую тюрьму. Он присоединяется к террористической группе, которая которая даёт ему особое задание. Документальные военные съёмки включены в фильм в качестве воспоминаний главного героя.

Docu-fiction hybrid about Ulli Lommel and Andy Warhol.

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.

Для Франка и Ани их летний отдых на Балтийском море обернулся кошмаром — когда они ненадолго сошли на берег, кто-то угнал яхту, на которой остались их дети. Полиция не может выйти на след похитителя, и у отчаявшихся родителей осталась одна надежда: отец Франка, бывший офицер Штази. 25 лет назад он расследовал похожий случай в этом городе. Похоже маньяк снова проявил себя в здешних краях.

Documentation about Christoph Schlingensief's legendary election campaign. With his theater and art actions, as a filmmaker and opera director, Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) shaped cultural and political discourse in Germany over two decades. The party “Chance 2000” was Schlingensief's biggest, most public project up to that point. For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus“ in Berlin and founded the party Chance2000. This is an ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s life and survival.

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

История четырёх людей, которые из-за рискованных операций банка потеряли все свои сбережения. Оказавшись в безвыходном положении, они не находят ничего лучше, чем ограбить банк, который доставил им столько неприятностей.

An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at university. He is working on the theory of parallel worlds, which are linked, he initially believes, by light. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, is incapable of healing.

The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt. Was it suicide or even a murder?

A German businesswoman falls for an American pro wrestler she meets at the dog park, testing her lifelong obedience to her CEO/father.

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

Simone Carstensen-Kleebach actually has everything one could wish for in life: a husband who supports her and with whom she has been married for almost 20 years, a daughter and great career success. But the pressure to be perfect in all these roles lends Simone more and more. When she meets Leon on vacation, it sparks. And although Simone never thought it possible to "do something like that," she gets involved in an affair with him. Back in Hamburg with the family, Simone suddenly receives compromising photos of Leon and himself. But who took the pictures and what does the sender want to achieve?

Группа быстрого реагирования немецкой полиции попадает в сложную ситуацию: при штурме наркопритона убиты двое наркодилеров и ранен их товарищ. Позже при загадочных обстоятельствах погибают еще двое сотрудников группы. На свой страх и риск они начинают охоту за убийцей их товарищей ...

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. Even at home she is under stress: Her husband, a surgeon, she sees arm in arm with a younger. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakech for work, quickly incurs her grandson. In this situation, school psychologist Schubert asks her for help: The city-renowned architect Bremer has appeared with him with her seven-year-old son because of its over-activity in school. The boy looks scared, claims that the Bremer is not his mother, suddenly seems to have disappeared.

Каждая война начинается со страха. Каждое предательство начинается с доверия. Глава секретного подразделения разведки получает задание найти опасного международного беглеца Ису Карпова, которого из симпатии укрывает молодая девушка-адвокат. Когда в погоню вступают разведки других стран, начинается большая шпионская игра, в которой любой может оказаться наживкой или акулой. А национальная безопасность нередко зависит от простых человеческих чувств.

A tall and a small masked man wearing police uniforms driving the local cop car rob 600.000 Euro from a money transport in Eifel town Monreal. Incompetent state inspector Melanie Marschall focuses local police detectives Killmer and Kati Biever, neither of which has an alibi, both had the car keys, even fitting masks where found at Killmer's home. The are suspended, needing to find the -obviously well-informed- real culprits, while precinct colleague Ralf is recruited to spy on them. While Kati's irresponsible grandmother loads further suspicion on them, the cop pair finds several townsfolk and Melanie Marschall in financial need, yet no conclusive clue until a murder raises crucial questions.

Пятеро гостей застрелены и буквально казнены на корабле-ресторане во Франкфурте. Среди них гессенский государственный секретарь. Убийство в окружении или покушение? Но расследования комиссара Роберта Марталера ведут в другом направлении - во времена Третьего рейха. Захватывающий триллер из Франкфуртской среды.

Действие фильма разворачивается в очевидно выпавшей из времени Германии. Страна, в которой всегда светит солнце, дети носят школьную форму, а полицейские — костюмы медведей, и мастера педикюра дарят престарелым дамам печенье. Но за красотой этого параллельного мира скрывается бездна — туда свершится поездка вместе с героями фильма.

Teacher Ines and journalist Boris have been happily married for 14 years. But Ines suffers from her childlessness. Then she is confronted with a chapter of her life that has displaced her for many years: In a new student she recognizes her daughter, who she had released after adoption for adoption. Since Boris knows nothing about it, Ines can only trust her best friend Simone. Against her advice, she also seeks in private the proximity to the unsuspecting student. In doing so, she finds herself in a conflict between her responsibility as a teacher and her growing motherly feelings.

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her closely guarded secret: Judith had been brought as a child under mysterious circumstances in a DDR children's home. Origin: unknown. Now, 25 years later, Judith has the evidence in her hands that she was swapped as a child. A stranger lived her life. Did this stranger also die of her - Judith's - death?

During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though still interdependent.

Врач сказал правду. Время сочтено. Почему это случилось со мной, и почему сейчас? Мужчина оставляет жену и детей, родителей, друзей, соседей и вчерашнюю любовницу — всех, кто были частью его жизни. Каждый день — это прощание. Все реже слышны слова, все дольше длится молчание. За окном природа одевается в новые цвета. Осталась последняя работа — умереть. Не быть одному, оставаясь в одиночестве — может быть, это не так плохо…

Gundula Glöckner is very worried about the salvation of her daughter Lena. Again and again, the young woman gets to the wrong men. To help her child's happiness, the resolute widow shortly sets out on a pilgrimage: in Padua she wants to pray for Lena at the tomb of St. Anthony. However, the illustrious Pilgrims on their way to Italy are struggling with a whole series of mishaps and complications. Especially the brash bus driver Benno brings the God-fearing Gundula again and again to the white heat - until she realizes that hides behind its rough shell a vulnerable core.

История трех еврейских семей, основанная на реальных фактах. Главные герои оказываются в самом эпицентре событий, произошедших 16 и 17 июля 1942 года, когда французские полицейские задержали более 12 тысяч евреев и держали их на стадионе Вель-д`Ив. Условия содержания были ужасные, около сотни узников покончили жизнь самоубийством, а каждого, кто пытался бежать, расстреливали на месте. После шести дней в Вель-д`Иве евреев депортировали во французские лагеря Дранси, Бон-ла-Роланд и Питивьер, откуда потом этапировали в немецкие лагеря смерти.

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.

For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Braunschweig won the German Championship.

Berlin: Hauptstadt korrupter Populisten, zynischer Journalisten und fieser Gangster. Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Niki Stein hängt sich mit seiner Story weit aus dem Fenster: Im Hals einer Frauenleiche am Husumer Strand steckt ein Papier mit der Handynummer des Starreporters Kress (Ulrich Tukur). Die Kommissarin Nora Jaspers (Anja Kling) fährt in die Spreemetropole, um den Mann zu verhören, doch ein hoher LKA-Beamter (Walter Kreye) nimmt ihr den Fall weg. Gleichzeitig versucht Noras Vater, der Polizeipräsident Kolberg (Hanns Zischler), eine Law-and-Or­der-Partei zu etablieren…

To take care of his father’s estate, Ulrich Meinert has to go to a trailer park where his father used to live. He finds himself in a camping colony in eastern Germany which stirs up mixed feelings. Although he felt a lot of resentment towards his father, days go by without him taking care of any unsettled business. Instead, he starts to get involved with Anja, takes on one of his father’s old friends and settles into his father’s trailer. Against his own wishes, he starts to fill the void his father left behind ...

Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.

Life of Greta Bücking and Paul Markwart seems to be in perfect order. Both are happily married - until they find out that their spouse died in a plane crash. But increasingly compacted suspected that Lutz Bücking and Karin Markwart were not traveling on business, but on the way to their common love nest, is a cozy hotel on Amrum.

'Clemence M. Schönborn"s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

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.

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000".

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s.