Johannes Brandrup

The film begins with the Annunciation: Mary, a young Galilean, virginal conceived the Messiah, the Son of God. Her husband Joseph, a humble carpenter, decided to stay by his side throughout. When Caesar Augustus ordered the Jews to register people, the couple embarks on a journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Meanwhile, Maria Magdalena, a young woman from the same town that Mary, turns away from God and placed in the palace of King Herod, Herodias where convinces her to lose her innocence in the arms of the king's son.

Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69. Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.

In July 1944, the Germans discover a link between a small country barracks of the Arma dei Carabinieri Reali and the Resistance and one of the carabinieri, Sebastiano Pandolfo, and a young partisan are shot. Three other carabinieri (Alberto La Rocca, Vittorio Marandola, and Fulvio Sbarretti) manage to escape and try to join the Resistance, but the Germans take ten civilians hostage and threaten to kill them if the carabinieri do not surrender. Upon hearing the news, just before they reach the partisans, the three carabinieri choose to surrender to honor the role of the carabinieri as guarantors of legality and justice, thus saving the lives of the ten hostages.

After Dr. Patricia Engel experienced a treatment error with a fatal outcome that was also covered up, she gave up her promising career as a doctor and became a lawyer. When she once again comes across a medical error in the clinic of her father, heart specialist Professor Brenner, of all people, she tries everything she can to save the patient. But the surgeon turns against her and sics a lawyer on his daughter.

A woman's life unravels as the predator preying on her daughter online destroys her life via online sabotage.

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In a German concentration camp in occupied Poland, a group of prisoners prepared a symbolic Olympic Games. The German Nazis discovered their plans and agree to face them in competitions to prove their racial superiority.

On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Over tea, with the sound of planes landing at nearby Schönefeld airport, they talk about how she came to tell the story of Medea the immigrant, treated with suspicion in her host country, and are joined by the voices of Medea, Jason, Agameda, Glaucke and the passing of the East German era. This film premiered at the Berlinale in 2014.

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The story of three young people whom the war forced to grow up early: Emma, ​​Franz and Bruno - three friends from Trieste, are very close. Their life was mercilessly affected by the First World War, which forces the children to fight for survival, as well as for their love and friendship, although each of them comes from different social strata.

A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles.

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.

80 minutes to live or die. Alex got injected with a high tech poison by his creditor and put on a time clock to pay his debt back in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Will he make it or even further will he stay loyal to his friends and relatives under a pressure like running out of time?

With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in a hermetically sealed high-tech world.

Over one wild Cologne night, three women in search of the perfect partner and perfect life discover that a little bit of magic changes everything...

Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.

In her mid-fifties , Elisabeth Hallstein found her marriage in tatters overnight : her husband Klaus left her with the family fortune. Elisabeth, spoiled by luxury , has money problems for the first time . After a moment of shock, she comes up with an idea: she simply rents out a few rooms in hersold apartment. Interested parties are quickly found and a new love in the form of a young musician is on the horizon . But the project has its pitfalls.

Ausgerechnet am Tag ihrer Hochzeit fand Franziska raus, dass ihr Verlobter ein Verhältnis hatte. Seither weiß sie, dass alle Männer Schweine sind, und sie beweist es immer wieder aufs Neue: Im Auftrag von Kundinnen, die die Treue ihrer Partner testen wollen, verführt sie die Typen reihenweise. An Markus aber beißt sie sich die Zähne aus - und verliebt sich prompt in ihn, nicht ahnend, dass sie bloß eine Figur in einem perfiden Spiel seiner Frau ist.

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When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of the crisis team, but has to recognize that her colleagues see the crisis as an opportunity for their own career. When even highly toxic germs are discovered in a reservoir, the region is also threatened by a plague.

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Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this development. When one of the residents accidentally learns of a secret plan from the SED district leadership, which reveals that all unruly residents are to be forcibly relocated in just a few days, the people of Böseckendorf spontaneously decide to flee en masse. But can an entire village escape the GDR state power unnoticed overnight?

An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research.

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Police officer Eva Meyer re-visits the orphanage where she grew up with the intent of unraveling her confused identity. Stasi archives reveal that her birth was the result of a one-night stand between her mother and one of her husband’s students, a Kenyan. Her family’s plot to hide her birth, metaphorically mirrors Germany’s suppressed history in this noire thriller.

At Eckle's grocery store in Freiburg, everything has been the same for decades. An ideal workplace for sales clerk Susanne, who doesn't like change. But then the old Eckle dies and his son Christian wants to turn the old store into a delicatessen. No wonder he keeps clashing with Susanne. Neither of them realize that they have already met and fallen in love via a hotline and under different names.

Laila is a vampire and seduces rich men into bed.

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First young lawyer Anna loses a shoe heel - then an important client to her oily colleague. "Why does everything always go wrong?", she complains to chat partner Jan. At home, the lonely soul also has to listen to the loud bedtime stories of her perky flatmate Sarah. But eventually Anna finds happiness too, because Jan's handsome boyfriend Kai turns the wheel of fate. Until the gray mouse throws on a white negligee and Jan confesses: "I don't want to chat anymore, I want ten children." Various Hollywood romances have been used up here. Despite a good cast and some nice ideas, there is a lack of momentum.

Young Johanna dares to make a fresh start: she buys a run-down house in a small village on the former German-German border and starts her job in the local daycare center. With her charming manner, she quickly dispels the mistrust of most of the long-established residents. But some of the residents soon realize that Johanna has not moved to their village by chance: she is on the trail of a story from the pre-reunification era that many would rather keep in the dark...

Anna Siebert, Sekretärin der Unternehmensberatung "Christian Hoffmann Consulting", ist in ihren Chef verknallt. Aber Christian möchte sich weder an Anna noch an eine andere Dame binden. Alle wissen das, nur Anna will es nicht wahrhaben. Während einer Betriebsfeier kommen sich die beiden im angetrunkenen Zustand doch näher und verbringen eine Nacht zusammen. Annas Glück währt nicht lange, denn ihr Angebeteter kann sich an nichts erinnern ...

The true story of a mother in search of her children deported to Germany by the Nazis.

Devi, in her mid-thirties, is in the midst of a life crisis. She walks dogs in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district and has neither a husband nor a child nor a successful career to show for herself. She is also searching for her great childhood sweetheart, Jonny Miller, with whom she lived in a shared apartment, but all she knows is that he lives in New York. Her search proves fruitless. Devi decides to leave everything behind, sublet her "apartment with stove heating," and go straight to New York to look for Jonny Miller. But everything turns out differently...

At a garden party at her future in-laws' house, Lena has a fling with waiter Roger. While she quickly forgets the wild one-night stand, Roger believes he has found the woman of his life. Blinded by love, he does everything he can to win Lena over...

Daniel Matzen is a gigolo, a call boy who does his job in a purely professional manner and does not let any emotions approach him. But one day he falls head over heels in love with Kim, one of his customers. He even wants to let his gigolo job go for her, but there is someone who has something against these plans for the future: his regular customer Lisa.

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London art dealer Ben Hoadey has a cardiac arrest while flying his helicopter, just able to land on Geoffrey Arland's Cornish coast estate. Ben takes Dr. Gerome's advice to stop working and stays indefinitely in the sleepy resort town. He's romantically interested in wheelchair-bound Geoffrey's wife June, who nurses both men and the doctor's other patients. Ben's jealous ex Rebecca tries to spoil everything with a dirty deal.

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Amrum was their destiny: Christian Römer wants to come to terms with himself on the island. He is due to be ordained a priest in a few weeks. Katja is also looking for a break from everyday life and from her unfaithful boyfriend Thomas. Naturally, the young people get closer than they would like and the drama takes its course...

Krestin lives a fairly wealthy and carefree life. She is going to marry her boyfriend Gregor, has a good job in a shop and rich parents. But a dispute with Gregor shows his true violent personality, beginning a nightmare for her.

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After the death of a mutual friend, six people try to escape their bleak lives in the German-Belgian-Luxembourg border region. When one of them hijacks a bus, more or less by chance, they embark on a journey that takes them further and further away from the dreams and illusions of their everyday lives.