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Actors: Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Morris, Laura Tonke, Kirsten Block, Alexis Lezin
Synopsis: Eoin Moore's domestic abuse drama Pigs Will Fly focuses its attention on the abuser more than the victim. Laxe (Andreas Schmidt) is an emotionally troubled Berlin policeman who, after witnessing a male associate of his wife's flirt with her, beats Manuella (Kristen Block). Afterward she is Read More
Actors: Bernhard Betterman, André Hennicke, Michael Mendl, Irina Pantaeva
Synopsis: The true story of a German soldier's long and difficult journey home after being sentenced to a Russian prison camp inspired this wartime epic. In 1944, Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann) leaves behind his wife and children and joins the German army, where he is sent to fight along the Russian Read More
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Gregor Torzs, Dieter Landuris, Hasan Ali Mete, Tonio Arango
Synopsis: A man discovers the difference between lust and love isn't as simple as he thought in this romantic comedy from Germany. Bob (Gregor Torzs) is a self-styled ladies' man in his mid-twenties who is making a concerted effort to settle down by marrying his girlfriend Claudia (Miriam Lahnstein). Read More
Actors: Marek Harloff, Inga Busch
Synopsis: Drachenland is a drama about Hannes, a computer designer who left Berlin seven years ago and has since become successful in the United States. On returning to Germany, he is haunted by images and emotions from his past -- his dead father, relatives he did not get along with, the woman he left Read More
Synopsis: German politics and filmmaking are parodied in this comedic mystery that centers on a line-up of odd-balls, each suspected of killing a politician, as they explain their different motives for committing the crime. It is up to the viewer to decide which one of them committed the crime (the Read More
Synopsis: Anthony Perkins, in one of his last roles, is the sole highlight of this mundane, German-made psychological thriller, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. Perkins plays Arthur, an obsessive-compulsive English bachelor with a history of far more destructive habits -- the worst of which include his Read More
Actors: Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger, Hans Quest
Synopsis: This dramatic presentation is the story of the landscapes that inspired Caspar David Friedrich. Narrated by Friedrich's friend and pupil, Carl Gustav Carus (played by Helmut Griem) this takes place on location throughout Europe. Mr. Friedrich's will not appear, except with his back to the camera Read More
Actors: Mark McGann, Gabriele Osburg, Ulrich Matschoss, Corny Collins
Synopsis: The Nazi doctrines of eugenics which led to genocide were by no means limited to Jews, gypsies, or homosexuals. This gripping drama follows the exploits of two pediatric caregivers who risked their lives to protect their handicapped charges from being gassed or used in medical experiments. Even Read More
Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Helmut Berger, Anica Dobra
Synopsis: Famed actor Helmut Berger directed this nondirectional, experimental film, which focuses on the improvisational conversations of three of life's more clueless individuals: a would-be suicide, a bank robber, and a first-time visitor to Vienna. The film also features a variety of odd visual Read More
Actors: Steffi Graf, Volkmar Kleinert
Synopsis: Otto Waalkes is a goofy looking and very popular German standup comedian, who has also directed, written and starred in a number of very silly films in which he plays a bumbling, wacked-out Frisian. Frisians are to "regular" Germans what Newfoundlanders are to other Canadians, the Irish are to the Read More
Actors: Hannelore Schroth, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Frederick von Thun, Gudrun Gabriel, Elma Karlowa
Synopsis: Elisabeth (Hannelore Schroth) and her scientist husband Heinrich (Friedrich von Thum) return to Germany after a 40-year stay in the United States. There, Heinrich's old friend and rival Franz (Hans Peter Hallwachs) becomes jealous of the attention Heinrich is receiving from government officials Read More
Actors: Cornelia Froboess, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Wojciech Pzoniak, Nadja Tiller, Peter Krauss
Synopsis: Concocted with a flair for the kind of mystery once captured in the best silent films, this engaging suspense story concerns a German samurai who mastered his art while growing up in Japan. The flaxen-haired samurai is Wilcke (Hans Peter Hallwachs), who has his dander up because an ancient and Read More
Actors: Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner, Christine Rose
Synopsis: A drama about personal conflicts and the political biases of the East and West German governments in the mid-'80s, this story focuses on the defection of a talented singer. Klaus (Gerulf Pannach) is finally granted permission to leave East Germany where he is no longer allowed to perform. But Read More
Actors: Udo Kier, Piero vonArnim, Linda Himbert, Kurt von Ruffin, Makato Ozaki
Synopsis: This is an uneven sci-fi farce that combines electronic imaging and video but stops short of a rampant, comic-book approach to its tale. Hurry Cane (Piero von Arnim), Daisy Bit (Linda Himbert), and the crazed Dr. Popov (Hans-Peter Hallwachs) are a determined trio bent on completing a trip to Mars Read More
Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs
Synopsis: Popova (Elisabeth Rath) is a widow who lives in a crumbling mansion and manages as best she can with the help of a loyal and quirky butler/handyman named Luka (Hans Mandin). One day a former officer comes by to demand payment of an old debt that sets her along a collision course with her neighbor Read More
Actors: Valentina Cortese, Gisella Hahn
Synopsis: A Medeci villa is home to a crackpot doctor who does experiments on peacock eggs, a nurse who greets people by doing a handstand in her skirt, an aspiring ballerina, and a few other odd characters. The villa also hosts a broad range of visitors, including a musician and a gay couple -- the younger Read More
Actors: Desiree Nosbusch, Nicole Heesters, Hermann Lause
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Irmgard Keun written in 1937, this film is a satire on the up-and-coming Germans of that time who desired to make the leap from comfortably well-off to rich and/or powerful. The bawdy cabarets and omnipresent swastikas and military police form a backdrop for these social Read More
Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Hermann Lause, Brigitte Mira
Synopsis: The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late '20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich friend and female companionship, he is not blind. He sees mounting injustices in the society around him Read More
Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Bernd Tauber, Agnes Duenneisen, Mascha Gonska, Kai Fischer
Synopsis: An out of work architect and a recently discharged military man meet at a critical moment in their lives. Each of them has been deprived of an occupation which gave meaning to their existence, and is left, instead, with a $15,000 severance check. Neither one handles the situation at all well. Read More
Actors: Anita Pallenberg, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Manfried Fischbeck, Werner Enke
Synopsis: When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than honorable and becomes involved with not one but both of the men she finds to help her with his disposal at a construction site. And that's just one Read More
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