Elisabeth Trissenaar

After several strokes of fate ends a rage eruption of the otherwise so quiet power engineering technician Felix Grünler with a criminal complaint for assault. A grateful affair for his sister-in-law Karin, who forges an intrigue to gain the inheritance of her mother-in-law. She succeeds in having Felix admitted to psychiatry as incompetent. He is determined not to get into therapy. For doctors, this confirms the picture of the labile patient. But in the other patients Felix gives his consistent anti-attitude in the long run benevolent recognition.

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

Sonia’s nightmare is never ending. Her super-rich husband Frederic is now locked in a psychiatric unit after he attempted to kill her. But her mother-in-law continues to make her life hell by controlling her every move. Getting a job at a wellness spa in the mountains comes at just the rights time. However, on arriving, Sonia quickly realises that the villagers are not particularly sympathetic to newcomers and mysterious things begin to happen, all of them strangely connected to the legend of the devil of Milan. But is it just her mind playing tricks on her? DER TEUFEL VON MAILAND is a thriller based on the novel by Swiss author Martin Suter.

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

A German TV drama

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-historical puzzle from Alexander Moissi to Nicholas Ofczarek. The success story of the phenomenon "Everyman" is told in an unprecedented way.

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a little, including pretty faces. Frank Knöpfel constantly flirts with life with his beguiling bright blue eyes. He buys a complete stranger an expensive coat in a designer boutique just because he feels like it. He disguises himself as a businessman from Oslo, a Mafia boss, a stock exchange specialist and an estate agent, whatever it takes to bring in the cash. He is the type of person who enjoys looking in the mirror, and delights in what he sees there. A flirtation with a customer in a boutique leads to Frank’s undoing.

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.

Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds.

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

The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist.

Польша, 1943. Богатый польский крестьянин Леон находит в лесу обессилевшую женщину. Ее зовут Роза. Она — еврейка, которая спасается от нацистов. Леон дает Розе убежище и оказывает помощь. Но их вынужденное сосуществование кончается катастрофой, так как характеры женщины из буржуазной среды и простого крестьянина оказываются несовместимыми.

1941 год. Пленный поляк влюбился в прекрасную немку, но возможен ли счастливый конец у этой любви?

An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa. (www.filmgalerie451.de)

Фильм основан на истории жизни Шарлотты Соломон. В 1939 году она бежала из Берлина к своей бабушке во Францию. Начинается война, бабушка впадает в депрессию, помышляет о самоубийстве. Приходит весть о смерти матери, что повергает Шарлотту в отчаяние. Борясь с ним, она начинает рисовать. Более тысячи работ, посвященных в основном ее воспоминаниям о Берлине, объединены в цикл под названием «Жизнь? Или театр?». В 1943 году она попадает в Аушвиц и там погибает.

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

Героиня фильма, проводив мужа на Восточный фронт, начинает свой путь к богатству — любыми способами, любой ценой.

Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.

«Каждый год — это год Луны», — говорится в туманно-зловещем предуведомлении к картине. Люди, чья жизнь обусловлена чувствами, особенно часто страдают от депрессий. Но когда в лунном году бывает тринадцать новолуний, это часто приводит к неотвратимым личным катастрофам. В двадцатом столетии шесть лет отмечено этим опасным знаком. Например, 1978-й год… опасный для жизни многих людей. Но Луна, как и беда, не приходит одна, чаще всего, верша свои недобрые дела чужими руками. Ради любовника Эрвин решается на операцию по перемене пола и становится Эльвирой. Однако в роковом 78-ом тот охладевает к Эрвину-Эльвире. Главная героиня, у которой почва уходит из-под ног, ищет поддержки у бывшей жены и знакомых…

In this triangle melodrama, a woman shuts herself off from the world, rejects the advancement of her husband in society, and enthrones her own successor.

Ксавер Больвизер — управляющий вокзалом в Вербурге. На службе он строгий начальник, а дома — беспрекословный раб своей энергичной супруги. Скучающая без дела жена Больвизера, красавица Ханни, начинает ему изменять…