Rolf Zacher

Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she...

Three ordinary, disillusioned citizens decide to rob an armored car.

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin...

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the...

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house...

Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses...

Ferdinand was abandoned as an infant by his parents in the forest. There he was found by a homosexual couple. Ludwig (called "Laila") and Harry...

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown...

About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad...

When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next...

CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...

Based on a book by Eric Malpass and directed by Kurt Hoffmann, the film focuses on the everyday life of a German family perceived through the eyes of...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

A quirky family lives their simple but joyful life which centers around the youngest family member, a little boy.

A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of...

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her...

Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.

The crunchy sisters Biene and Püppi decide that there must finally be an end to the emotional and financial disaster of their mother Hilde....

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.

American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the...

Bernhard and Claire have always lived to work. Now that's over: the workaholic and entrepreneur turns his back on his airplane company, Claire sells...

Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he...

A spirit of optimism, structural change, emancipation: by showing excerpts from his films such as LIEBE, SO SCHÖN WIEBE (1971), SYLVIE (1973),...

A man lives a quiet live in a big house thanks to the wealth of his ancestors. Then a young woman arrives.

This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to...

Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they...

Two Berlin archetypes - Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann - convince in this touching big-city fairy tale in insistent roles as typical Berlin...

A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the...

A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await the end of the Easter truce with the Vietnamese. A...

This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns...

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.

Munich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without...

Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for...

Tommie is the absolute loser in his home district of Cologne-Kalk: no money, no apartment of his own, no girlfriend. In the exhaust workshop where he...

The former boxer Ronald has lost his short-term memory after an accident. Now nothing is the same. Roland's world has no future, and the past only...

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent...

"Der Griller" tells the story of hedonist Franz Kaffer, who is working at a grill restaurant in Munich and as a drug dealer alongside. The film...

Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department...

While searching for a treasure in the Berlin sewers, Stan Becker and his friend Oskar come across a dead woman. A short time later, the police arrest...

On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her...

Ex-policeman Eddie is a dedicated private detective blessed with a healthy dose of audacity. His scruffy appearance and unconventional investigative...

Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he...

Delegates and workmen from China appear in a small Bavarian village to dismantle and ship to their country parts of a shut-down industrial plant....

An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks...

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its...

A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.

A comedy directed by Nikolai Müllerschön.

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.

When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into a blood-soaked conflict with the German...

1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de...

Manfred takes his nephew, Martin, on a business trip to Rome. They stay with Manfred's brother Georg, who lives in Rome. On the way there Manfred and...

Kaan (35) comes after a long time out of prison. He wants to do things differently. But his perception of reality does not seem to run parallel with...

Student Markus Schneider works as a courier. Every day he chases through the streets of Berlin on his rollerblades to deliver documents on time....

Anita de Winter loves crime novels, to which she devotes all her free time. Her neighbor Max shares her enthusiasm, as long as he doesn't pursue his...

A night in the cold trade of prostitution. Blue goes out on the streets. His "working day" begins at eleven o'clock at night and ends at dawn. Then,...

The story is about the Munich veterinarian Dr. Georg Rauh and his erotic-amorous relationships with women

A movie by Roger Fritz starring Helga Anders and Arthur Brauss

A satire about corruption, about big and small crimes: The noble clochard Maxwell, the unsuccessful film producer Harry and the unemployed actress...

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the...

Munich in the 1970s: A group of young people are killing time. Sylvie has broken up with her boyfriend, and a short time later he marries someone...

Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks.

Young Italian stud Franco comes to Munich to earn some money for his family in Italy. But soon he explores the local women, and besides his affairs...

As a naive blonde from the countryside, Helgalein comes into conflict with the insignia of the sexual revolution.

Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of...

Jones is called in when others want to kill. Jones works quickly, precisely, successfully. His clients pay the price he demands without...

Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who...

Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there...

While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first...

Johannes tracks down insurance fraudsters, but he himself is a cunning deceiver...

The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fail time and again.

Chris, Alois and Harry keep their heads above water in West Berlin with small robberies and odd jobs. When they manage to rob an armored car coming...

Vera and Stefan Rabe independently have the idea to snuggle away from their six kids between 8 and 17 to get some work done before Christmas. Both...

An old man and a teenage boy, both neo-nazis are travelling across Germany to take funds to the party headquarters. On the way they encounter a young...

In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the...

In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels....

Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello...

The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best...

Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.

We follow 15-year-old Paule‘s hard life on his parents' farm. Under his controlling father – who is fighting to save the homestead...

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new...

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of...

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on...

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West...

Flori and Lucy are on holiday in Turkey. By accident they meet their class mate Ali, who is visiting his grandfather. Ahmet, a genie, sends the three...

At the foot of the Gamskogelwand: In summer, the summer of the falcon, an exciting and dangerous adventure awaits Marie, a girl who lives in the...

Esther and Sophie are BFF! When it comes to men, they however differ fundamentally . While the career woman Esther is on uncomplicated sex and...

Young Tina has a big dream, she wants to become a successful pop singer. That's why she tries her luck in the music show 'Formel Eins'. There she...