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Nick, a jobless cook, falls in love with Anna, a film student. Some time after their adventurous first night she leaves him. Then time starts to run backwards - for everybody but Nick. He finds himself in a backwards world, everybody talks, runs, eats backwards. He accepts the situation, realizing that Anna is bound to return to him this way. He wants them to live together, him forwards, her backwards...
Shortfilm variation of the feature length scenario "The Love of Wenzel and Kirill". 20 year-old Wenzel breaks free from his shattered home, not knowing where to. He takes off with the first available ride by the side of the road, with 27 year-old russian Kirill in his van, heading back east from a european tour. With little reserve Wenzel confides his story to Kirill and in the course as easily gets invited to come along to Riga and to stay on at Kirill's place. "We have enough space." A phone call from back home fetches Wenzel back. The situation there has changed and he is needed. Yet, he promises to come visit later, next summer.
The Lauberhorn ski race, the longest in the world, is taking place in the summer this year. Ten thousand wooden slats laid out in a perfect course that the skiers could never make themselves. As a spectator, we get inside the skiers who race down at a dizzying speed. Accompanied by a live commentary.
They are young, naive, know it all, and have just fallen in love: a simple, down to earth office girl, Sarah and up and coming, high-flying, web designer Stephan. Happiness reigns supreme...
Manipulated, rotten meat infects a weird freak, who mutates into a disgusting zombie, always heading for new victims. The epidemic spreads fast, but a few heroes stir up against the threatening end of the world. A real devastating mixture of nerveshatter and strange humour, especially due to the most elaborated dialogues and the smallest budget film history has ever seen.
Conny's newly founded "agency for solving unsolvable problems" starts with a difficult case. Conny is supposed to bring the ex-pop star Larry, who has lost his career, back to winning ways. She doesn't see the fact that he doesn't want to and that she has no idea about the music business as an obstacle. She has a real ace up her sleeve in music professional René. And as long as her beloved but morbidly jealous Freddy doesn't notice that his biggest rival is Conny's new partner, almost nothing can go wrong.
Erika, Dorle and Ilse, three friends between 60 and 70, have always stuck together and always manage to take life on the bright side. Erika's big dream is to have an expensive breast reconstruction. But she doesn't have the money. In order to fulfill her friend's heart's desire, Dorle and Ilse take on temporary jobs and eventually even develop an unexpected criminal energy. However, problems are not long in coming.
A BGS officer, who is supposed to help train his Polish colleagues at the Ukrainian border after Poland's accession to the EU, realizes through an encounter with a fun-loving Ukrainian smuggler that there are not only money-grubbing criminals in the smuggling business, but also people who are more likeable than his career-hungry superior, whose behaviour towards the Poles he is ashamed of.
Documentary concerning the seizing of Stasi files by thousands of Berliners gathered in Lichtenberg on 15 January 1990, bringing to an end a secret service that spied upon an entire nation, turned friends into informants and created a climate of fear, repression and conformity.
Watchmaker Erika Backström runs the family business with an iron hand. But her life is turned upside down when she meets the gardener Otto during a short stay at a castle hotel.
Compilation consisting of 17 of Peter Weibel's earlier works.
ABC of the Serengeti takes us on a journey through the most famous park in Africa. It captivates the viewer with spectacular footage, breathtaking landscapes and rousing music. It's an intimate look at different life and ways of life in the Serengeti. Experience the quirks of the individual animals and their behavior in the herd as together they make up life in the Serengeti.
A petty criminal accidentally comes into possession of a suitcase, the origin of which he knows nothing about. When he is confronted by a dangerous gangster about how he got hold of the suitcase, more questions remain unanswered than at the beginning. The people who acquired it before him in some way must answer for their actions.
Widow Käthe Mühlmann is a little eccentric. Every day she confides her worries to the photo of her husband Hubert, who has been dead for ten years but is still closer to her than her two friends Arabella and Brigitte. Käthe does indeed have reason to worry: her much-loved granddaughter Christine has lost her heart to the dubious Stefan Seyler, who is cheating on her through and through. What's more, Seyler has turned Christine's traditional café into a shady nightclub.
Young and successful Ali from Istanbul leaves the big city to go search for a lucrative piece of land on a sparsely populated island. Unfortunately he is immediately confronted with problems: "No Ferry Today" says a handwritten piece of paper at the gates of the port. In his hurry to somehow get to the island he meets an old fisherman called Memo. Ali offers Memo money to take him to the island, but Memo is satisfied with a cigarette. But since Memo is the captain, he decides the pace of the boat and thus paces the hectic Ali down as well as the story. The differences between the two men seem to be huge at first sight, but when you depend on one another, huge differences become tiny.
Franz Josef Gottlieb talks about his Edgar Wallace films and the collaboration with producer Artur Brauner.
Helena is in a coma, yet she takes part in the everyday lives of her friends. In her reality adolescence is afflicted by a mutative disease! With some help from Doctor Behrendt, Helena's friends put their abilities to good use - while she herself is affected in a way she dare not speak of. Can she get to the bottom of it all and return to life before her time runs out?
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist wants to spend his honeymoon in Mauritius, where he meets his childhood sweetheart, who works here as a hotel manager. Their 20-year-old daughter works as an entertainer and the man has no idea that he is the father. When the young woman is put in danger by a love-struck German doctor, he has to act.
Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.
Short film by Bastian Hopfgarten.
Alex is constantly in trouble with his father, who thinks he's a loser. When his father becomes violent again, Alex goes crazy and crashes his car into the counter of the bank where his father works. A short time later, Alex is arrested. In order to be back with his mother and little sister Lena as quickly as possible, he accepts an unusual offer: 120 days in camp instead of four years in prison - without realizing how hard his time there would be...
Documentary about the American actress Jane Russell.
A docu-fiction re-imagining of the Cologne school shooting in the 1960s.
Since the 1990s, Christoph Marthaler and his congenial stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock have caused a sensation with highly musical and atmospheric productions of plays and operas. It was only a matter of time, then, before this directing team was also invited to the Bayreuth Festival. Marthaler's style of radical deceleration proved ideally suited to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in this production – with Viebrock's sober yet poetic sets – unveiled in 2005. In the 2009 revival documented here, Robert Dean Smith and Iréne Theorin were joined in the title roles by Robert Holl, one of the great basses of his generation, who sang the role of King Marke.
After 20 years of marriage, the Schöns' passion has faded. Instead, the roles are clearly divided. Katharina takes care of the household, Wolfgang stands his ground as university president. Completely unexpectedly, Katharina becomes pregnant at 40! Wolfgang is horrified, he sees his peace of mind threatened. Daughter Lena also waves him off: she doesn't want to babysit. Katharina feels left all alone. At this moment, Jan enters her life. The young and very charming lecturer adores her. What now? Katharina makes a momentous discovery: Wolfgang has been cheating on her for a year!
After the death of his cancer-stricken wife, advertising photographer Michael Bender only cares about his nine-year-old daughter Sammy. However, since he had to plunge into debt to pay for her treatment, Michael has been in serious trouble. Because he has not yet been able to repay the money, he is now threatened with repossession. His plight is not helped by the fact that his daughter makes the acquaintance of Julia, a master confectioner. The two immediately fall in love and Michael is also enchanted by Julia's charm...
1994. Jan "Tequila" Scheppers brother has on the attic of a house an Orgy organized. To do this, he used a drug the sexually attractive and also stimulated. During this Orgy, there was a massacre in which all parties Involved to death. Tequila has then to leave the city to return to find himself but he sees that he's back in the house needs to return to his inner peace. He returns to the town and encounters his friends Psycho Mason and Terror. After a strange substance found after the events. A weird and demonic beings is among us, but this is only the beginning of the end.
Widowed Balthasar Pelkofer lives only for his nursery. He has no private life, and there is hardly any time for his grown-up daughter Maxi. When competition from a discount garden center forces him into bankruptcy, his life begins to totter. At least Balthasar now has more time for his daughter. However, Maxi is more surprised than pleased by her father's unexpected attention. Then he meets the self-confident Annette - a real stroke of luck. But with his stubborn nature, the self-centered man soon alienates the charming and open-minded Annette. In a painfully funny way, Balthasar has to learn what is really important in life.
The National Socialist community "Kraft durch Freude" was a political organization with the task of organizing, monitoring and standardizing the leisure time of the German population. It is known today mainly as a vacation organization that practically brought mass tourism to Germany for the first time. The documentary shows private footage of travelers, film sequences from the Ministry of Propaganda as well as material from Eva Braun's film archive and thus provides a comprehensive insight into how vacations were organized in the Third Reich.
New York publisher Paige Duvall travels to New Zealand to accept a mysterious inheritance. A certain James Abott has bequeathed her a considerable piece of land, for which there is also an interested party. The hotel investor Steven Armstrong wants to build a wellness facility. But local sheep farmer Adam Leary is opposed to the sale. Paige quickly finds confidence in the attractive man.
Elegies is a live DVD released by Machine Head, recorded at the Brixton Academy in London, England.
Maria, Dana and Julie learn from their mother's diary that one of them has been adopted.
Frank Zander is a phenomenon: he combines change and consistency like probably no other artist on the German music scene. In the 70s, he attracted attention as the gloomy Nick-Nack-Man, at the beginning of the 80s he landed his biggest hit with the kitschy and cheerful "Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären", later he parodied the big city cowboy with "Hier kommt Kurt" and then brought tears to the eyes of even hardened soccer fans with the Hertha anthem "Nur nach Hause". On one of his CDs, he even follows in the footsteps of Rammstein and declares the German pop song dead.
On October 18, 1989, the SED Central Committee confirms the dismissal of Erich Honecker. The documentary tells the story of the last months of the Politburo, of the demise of the GDR's most important organ of power, from spring 1989 to early 1990.
Shortly after she enforced the dramatic cuts on the city's science budget, the mayor disappears without a trace. The crew of the Apparatspott goes on a journey through time to save her.
HF815B - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl
Von Wegen (aka Off Ways) is a documentary that offers a look at Einstürzende Neubauten's historic visit to the GDR and the recollections of the key figures involved twenty years later.
When psychology professor Friedrich Sibelius gives up his teaching job, a new phase of his life begins: his son Thomas needs advice, his grandchildren need attention, and his wife Anna drags him to a salsa course. On top of that, Friedrich finally wants to get his driver's license - and dares to flirt with his driving instructor Eva...