The GDR casts its shadow right up to the present day: Stefan Kortman, a respected doctor in Hanover, carries a dark secret with him. Nobody in his home country knows that he was a Wall sniper and shot the husband of a young, pregnant woman trying to escape at the German-German border. Despite all his successes in his professional and private life, Stefan still can't find peace 20 years later. He wants to explain himself to the fugitive from back then.
Benno Fürmann
Dr. Stefan Kortmann
Annika Kuhl
Silke Strehlow
Lotte Flack
Sunny Strehlow
Max Hegewald
Paul Schrader
Sandra Borgmann
Dr. Marie Kranz
Jochen Striebeck
Dr. Richard Breitfeld
Ralph Herforth
Rechtsanwalt Pankow
Paula Schramm
Silke Strehlow - jung
Andy Klinger
Thomas Strehlow
The GDR casts its shadow right up to the present day: Stefan Kortman, a respected doctor in Hanover, carries a dark secret with him. Nobody in his home country knows that he was a Wall sniper and shot the husband of a young, pregnant woman trying to escape at the German-German border. Despite all his successes in his professional and private life, Stefan still can't find peace 20 years later. He wants to explain himself to the fugitive from back then.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?