Joachim Tomaschewsky

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist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

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.

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of egos ensues.

A unusual love story about two teenagers in berlin.

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 naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.

When a World War II bomb with two days to detonation is found in Berlin, Alex and his wife must work quickly to solve a 40-year-old puzzle.

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?

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

Africa - Land of the evershining sun, German soldiers fulfilling a UN mission. For General Brenner a dream comes true: Here, where the people are still native and simple, the German can prove his abilities. But then the virgin wife of Brenner gives birth to her first child. Is it the new Messias? But what is a Messias good for, if the UN is already there?

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.

Television film based on a short story by Christa Wolf.

Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be converted into a floating restaurant. Otto, whose his strong attachment to the ship has already cost him his relationship with his girlfriend Caramba (Renate Krößner), refuses to take another job and instead joins a railway construction brigade.

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car. In the conversation that ensues, Menzel and Pötsch quickly discover that they both are great admirers of the early 19th-century writer Max von Schwedenow who was born in the area.

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his loveless marriage and moves in with his lover. Under pressure from Miss Broder’s mother, Karl once again promises marriage. He finds, however, that the excitement that drew him to her in the first place doesn’t carry over into their daily lives.

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of “positive” characters from the beginning, the extensively staged “owl”, who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due to the influence of the ABV, develops into a good citizen, and incorrigible characters, with whom the ABV fails with its extensive attempts at rehabilitation and who are arrested after having committed again offenses.

Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973

Фильм, как и многие другие детективы, начинается с дорожного происшествия. В автокатастрофе погибает водитель и сгорает машина. Полиции зацепиться не за что, да и незачем, если бы не одно "но"... На следующий день произошло нападение на охранника автостоянки, куда отбуксировали полусгоревшую машину. Так начинается противостояние полиции с бандой контрабандистов золотом (или, по нашему, с "расхитителями социалистической собственности"), во главе которой стоит неуловимый и хитроумный босс. Немного стрельбы, немного погони, чуток драк. Всё как полагается. Зло будет наказано.

Полицейский комиссар слишком быстро идет по следу убийцы профессиональной проститутки, волею случая оказавшейся в центре крупной аферы, и поэтому ему подписывают смертный приговор в тот самый момент, когда он почти распутал весь клубок. Однако, его помощник — тоже, не смотря на молодой возраст, имеет незаурядные дедуктивные способности, и тоже очень быстро идет по тому же самому следу…

В основу картины положены подлинные события, происшедшие весной 1945 года в Бухенвальде. В прибывшем из Освенцима составе старый польский заключенный привозит в чемодане маленького еврейского мальчика, которого немедленно прячут члены подпольного комитета лагеря. Немецкая администрация узнает об этом и путем применения бесчеловечных репрессий требует его выдачи. Но сломить сопротивление узников не удалось, вспыхивает восстание…