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Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, Dolores Chaplin
Synopsis: Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his Read More
Actors: Maximilian Brückner, August Zirner, Antje Widdra, Johannes Allmayer
Synopsis: Andre Erkau's Come In and Burn Out follows the lives of four people who work together at a phone bank. While each makes a living thanks to their ability to communicate with strangers, each of them fails to bring that expertise to their personal lives. This causes each of them a variety of troubles Read More
Actors: August Zirner, Corinna Harfouch, Ralph Herforth, Oktay Özdemir, Robert Höller
Synopsis: Turkish-born filmmaker Zuli Aladag explores the simmering racial and socioeconomic tensions of the German middle class with this urgent thriller centering on the escalating conflict between an intellectual professor and a drug dealing teen. Simon (August Zirner) is a highly respected professor Read More
Actors: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo
Synopsis: A seemingly insignificant act may cause the fabric of history to unravel in this sci-fi adventure. Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) owns and operates a successful firm known as Time Safari. Thanks to time travel technology developed by Hatton's employee Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), Time Safari Read More
Actors: Neil Lennart Thomas
Synopsis: A young boy immersed in a fantasy world of his own crosses paths with a real-live talking terrier -- who just happens to be the inheritor of a palatial estate -- in this family-oriented fantasy from Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettelbeck. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Oleg Tabakov
Synopsis: Set in Germany in 1946, Taking Sides tells the story of the investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård), the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, by the American occupying army. Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) has been told by his Read More
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto, Maxime Foerste, August Zirner, Ulrich Thomsen
Synopsis: Sandra Nettelbeck spins this gentle drama about how a child's presence can change the lives of the most shy and career-minded of adults. Martha (Martina Gedeck) is the chef of a popular Hamburg eatery who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and Read More
Synopsis: The terror of the holocaust proves itself to be a lasting force, even between generations, in this film about the lasting effect of this event. A man named Geburtig is the only person alive who can testify against a Nazi war criminal set to go on trial. A reporter named Susanne leaves her Read More
Actors: Elea Geissler, Max Felder, Juliane Köhler, August Zirner, Meret Becker
Synopsis: This German family film was based on a book by Erich Kaestner, whose work was previously adapted for the screen in the films Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap. Ten-year-old Annaluise (Elea Geissler), nicknamed "Puenktchen," is best friends with Anton (Max Felder) despite the difference Read More
Actors: Gisela Schneeberger, August Zirner, Renate Krössner, Nikolaus Paryla, Saskia Vester
Synopsis: Rosi (Gisela Schneeberger) is a bookish middle-aged woman working for an insurance company who becomes smitten with Rainer (August Zirner), a good-looking German novelist, when she sees him read from his works. Rosi happens to be nearby when Rainer kills his obsessively jealous girl friend in Read More
Actors: Birgit Doll, August Zirner, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl, Wolfram Berger, Nina Proll
Synopsis: After his debut with the low-budget science fiction film Half World (1993), Austrian director Florian Flicker returned with this road movie, mapping a route to take the viewer from Vienna and civilization to a deserted mountain wilderness near the Austrian-German border. Because teacher Nana (Birgit Doll Read More
Actors: Katja Riemann, Jürgen Vogel, Richy Mueller, Isabella Parkinson, August Zirner
Synopsis: Traveling down DePalma-like pathways, director Rainer Kaufmann made this dark comedy-thriller about 30-year-old small-town pharmacist Hella Moormann (Katja Riemann), unlucky with men. She finally beds Levin (Jürgen Vogel), who's in debt to imprisoned drug-dealer Dieter (Richy Mueller). Hella is Read More
Synopsis: Though it starts out like a romantic comedy, Hannah is actually a chilling and suspenseful political thriller. Bright, energetic and charming Hannah has just landed a public relations job at the aging Hochstedt Doll Company. Her presence attracts the attention of both company owner Thomas and Read More
Synopsis: This lively German comedy follows the exploits of the cynical Monika, a never-married woman who just turned 30 and earns her living giving advice to the lovelorn on a local radio station. Though acerbic and glib with her replies on the air, Monika is a total washout in the outside world of Read More
Actors: August Zirner, Katja Flint, Georg Schuchter, Ute Cremer
Synopsis: A brief affair provides a welcome break from marital monotony in this Austrian comedy-drama. Simon and Helga have met each other many times as they drop their kids off at nursery school. Simon is married to selfish Anette who likes to keep him housebound. Helga is married to Helmut, a doctor. The Read More
Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Anian Zollner, Jean-Yves Gautier
Synopsis: Two star-crossed lovers, separated by the Berlin wall for thirty years are reunited. The major events in their separate lives become the focus in this German political drama. The story begins in August 1961 as the Wall is being built. In Eastern Berlin a group of young adults plans their escape. Read More
Actors: Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Dieter Kirchlechner, Traci Lind
Synopsis: Set in the 1950s, Voyager concerns the travels of an American construction engineer (Sam Shepard) who is wandering throughout Europe, recounting his life story through a series of flashbacks while meeting a variety of new characters. At first, he meets a man whom he knew during his time as a Read More
Actors: Wookie Mayer, August Zirner, Helmut Zierl, Sabine Berg, Anita Kolbert
Synopsis: Roxanne (Wookie Mayer) is in a steady relationship with a man whose foibles are beginning to wear thin with her. When she spots Karl (August Zimer) in a chance meeting, she is practically thunderstruck. Seeing him makes her believe in true love again. She begins to try and track him down, but Read More
Actors: Barbara Auer, Jacques Breuer, August Zirner
Synopsis: In this technically outstanding made-for-television police drama, a pair of feuding policemen only have their mutual disagreements to keep them going, because their careers are going nowhere. Then they stop in at a run-down restaurant and discover indications of a widespread protection racket. Read More
Actors: Uwe Ochsenknecht, August Zirner, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Carmen is a middle-aged housewife with two teen-aged children and a husband. The family has been living a comfortably middle-class existence. Carmen is shocked to discover that her husband has been unemployed for months without telling her about it. Desperate to pay their mounting bills, she hits Read More
Actors: Bettina Kupfer
Synopsis: A woman gets plunged into an adventure in this German made-for-television movie. Bettina Kupfer stars as Petra, a pizza-delivery girl who gets through her mundane day job by living vicariously through the characters in her favorite books. She gets more than she bargained for though, when one of Read More
Actors: Eva Mattes, Werner Stocker, Teo Gostischa, August Zirner
Synopsis: This is an emotionally wrenching drama about a woman dying of a brain tumor. The single mother (Eva Mattes) does not tell her young son or anyone else about her condition. Instead, she travels to Hamburg and leaves her son in their hotel room while she goes off for a tryst with his father, the man Read More
Actors: August Zirner, Rolf Zacher, Ernie Singerl
Synopsis: In this standard, stereotypical, youth-oriented film, Mona (Claudia Demarmels) has just received the awful news that she has to move out of her apartment because her landlady plans on turning it over to her son -- and so the impossible quest for an affordable place begins. As Mona goes from door Read More
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