Dominik Graf

Directing

Dominik Graf

Born

1952-09-06 (74)

Place of birth

Munich, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

66 titles

Nationally and internationally, Dominik Graf is by far Germany’s best-known and most recognized television director.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 1 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Fabian: Going to the Dogs poster
6.5

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2021

Fabian: Going to the Dogs poster
6.5

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2021

Beloved Sisters poster
5.7

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Beloved Sisters

2014

Beloved Sisters poster
5.7

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Beloved Sisters

2014

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films poster
6.0

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films

2017

The Cat poster
6.4

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

The Cat

1988

Doppelgänger poster
NR

The Munich student Albert is haunted in his daily life by the disturbing claim that his doppelgänger is walking around the city. The political topic of surveillance, a subject that has often been discussed in the shared student apartment, also becomes intertwined with Albert’s perceived threat. Under the rebellious slogan “Make Yourself Unrecognizable!”, the roommates have been developing little sabotage actions. For Albert, whose fear of control and loss of identity is already growing, the personal and political levels merge. His fear of loss of control and identity develops into a journey between mistrust, identity, and the question of whether reality and paranoia can still be distinguished from each other.

Doppelgänger

2025

Doppelgänger poster
NR

The Munich student Albert is haunted in his daily life by the disturbing claim that his doppelgänger is walking around the city. The political topic of surveillance, a subject that has often been discussed in the shared student apartment, also becomes intertwined with Albert’s perceived threat. Under the rebellious slogan “Make Yourself Unrecognizable!”, the roommates have been developing little sabotage actions. For Albert, whose fear of control and loss of identity is already growing, the personal and political levels merge. His fear of loss of control and identity develops into a journey between mistrust, identity, and the question of whether reality and paranoia can still be distinguished from each other.

Doppelgänger

2025

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians poster
5.0

A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives across the borders to the remotest corners of the world.

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians

2016

The Scorpion poster
5.1

Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.

The Scorpion

1997

The Red Cockatoo poster
5.5

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

The Red Cockatoo

2006

Melting Ink poster
NR

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

Melting Ink

2023

Melting Ink poster
NR

In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

Melting Ink

2023

A City Is Blackmailed poster
5.6

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

A City Is Blackmailed

2007

A City Is Blackmailed poster
5.6

A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

A City Is Blackmailed

2007

Twilight Eternal poster
4.9

It's his last chance to get back on his feet. And so Philipp Keyser knows no scruples as he approaches the young painter Alma, to find a lost painting, which is in the possession of a mysterious old man. Too late, Philip is clear that he expires more and more the young woman. In the main roles of Dominik Graf's film "In the evening of all days" Friedrich Mücke and the great theater actor and narrator Ernst Jacobi are to be experienced.

Twilight Eternal

2017

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films poster
8.0

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films

2016

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films poster
8.0

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films

2016

Cold Spring poster
4.2

A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.

Cold Spring

2004

Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg poster
4.4

Starnberg. An idyll with fangs. This is where police master trainee Ariane from Dortmund ends up. Inspector Lu takes her firmly under his wing. Her first cases are typical and strange: the Kini is found dead in the lake - again. And then Sisi is kidnapped.

Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg

2014

The Invincibles poster
5.9

Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps.

The Invincibles

1994

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around poster
6.0

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

2011

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around poster
6.0

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.

Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

2011

The Vow poster
3.8

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in his prime, visits the nun′s sickbed as a simple "writer of the wonders of God" to take down her visions and beliefs. He believes himself to be in charge of his life as a devout Catholic. The former rake′s encounter with the charismatic nun proves fateful, however. For both of them.

The Vow

2007

The Vow poster
3.8

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in his prime, visits the nun′s sickbed as a simple "writer of the wonders of God" to take down her visions and beliefs. He believes himself to be in charge of his life as a devout Catholic. The former rake′s encounter with the charismatic nun proves fateful, however. For both of them.

The Vow

2007

Journey to Weimar poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Journey to Weimar

1996

Munich: Secrets of a City poster
8.6

A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich.

Munich: Secrets of a City

2000

A Map of the Heart poster
4.9

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgen’s car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.

A Map of the Heart

2002

A Map of the Heart poster
4.9

Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgen’s car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.

A Map of the Heart

2002

Friends of Friends poster
5.8

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Friends of Friends

2002

Friends of Friends poster
5.8

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Friends of Friends

2002

The Invisible Girl poster
5.9

Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.

The Invisible Girl

2011

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen poster
7.0

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

2015

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen poster
7.0

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

2015

No artwork available
NR

Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.

Golem

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Drei gegen drei poster
5.6

The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on their doubles Stephan, Kralle and Peter, who live in Germany, in order to fake their deaths and also lighten the state coffers by 300 million dollars. But as is the case with simple plans in movies, they usually don't work. This 1980s curiosity was a commercial flop and ultimately led to the break-up of the band Trio.

Drei gegen drei

1985

No artwork available
NR

Inspector Süden's friend and colleague Martin Heuer is in the final of the German qualifying round for the air guitar world championship. Suddenly his toughest competitor is nowhere to be found: Edward Loos, an architect and loner in real life, who is better than anyone else as an air guitarist, has disappeared and nobody seems to be bothered by it. Although this is not actually a case for Missing Persons Division 11 - Loos has disappeared but has not been reported missing - Inspector Süden and his team trust Heuer's intuition and set out to search for an air guitarist who has vanished into thin air. But another spooky case is keeping the missing persons department busy. A man claims to have seen his wife, who died in the 2004 tsunami, again in the Munich subway.

Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist

2009

Your Best Years poster
5.9

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...

Your Best Years

1999

Second Sight poster
6.8

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.

Second Sight

1982

Second Sight poster
6.8

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.

Second Sight

1982