Matthias Freihof

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

A woman despairs about the coming collapse of the world. How will it change? What kind of planet will she leave to her daughter? She imagines different scenarios, each more terrible than the last, and decides to do something. No matter how pointless it may seem to her.

Rainer has a miserable life. He works as a pizza delivery guy in a small eastern german town. Unhappy with his situation and apparently short on money he's also struggeling with the dementia of his mother, who he cares for. Soon he can't take it anymore having anything accomplished in his life. With his mother in a home and a self-made bomb in the back of his delivery scooter he's heading north to Berlin. The road trip begins.

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

Yascha Krüger is a shy forestry official who struggles with dating and tends to scare people off. While temporarily working in a forest district, he meets Mats, a photographer, and the two develop a romantic connection. At the same time, Yascha is assigned a professional task: to persuade the heirs of a recently deceased landowner to sell a private forest so it can be turned into a national park. As Yascha becomes more involved in both his work and his growing feelings for Mats, he finds himself telling lies that complicate his relationships and force him to confront what he truly wants—both personally and professionally.

After a truck accident, Lab crows escape, and provoke a panic in the neighborhood. Alexandra, a young pregnant lady will go to every length to escape the mayhem and raise her neighbors' awareness about the danger.

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized. The outwardly shiny façade of Berlin, the capital of the Reich, reveals nothing of the unequal struggle of young people against the increasing oppression...

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.

Ama, Senta and Klara are sisters in their thirties and couldn't be more different. Ama studies medicine, Senta is a dedicated prostitute and Klara is more of a house maker, who desperately wants a child, even if it is from her abusive, lorry driver husband. Their parents, Rosa and Erich (who suffers from dementia) are tucked away in and old peoples home, which affords the girls some peace and quiet.

Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforeseen wishes.

When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, 1933, when Thälmann appeared as a speaker at the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany in goat neck. This period was marked by the struggle of the Communists against the ever stronger National Socialists and the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under suspicion of murder. But he protests his innocence.

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.

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Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.

The diagnosis is a shock. Katharina refuses to accept that her 17-year-old son Basti will be in a wheelchair after a traffic accident. She tirelessly takes him from one doctor to the next, not realizing how Basti feels increasingly suffocated by her care. This changes when Katharina finally meets Janik, a man who understands Basti. In "Sprung ins Leben", Simone Thomalla as a mother has to learn to let go of her son and accept that he wants to live his own life.

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A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: A Man's Voice [Une voix d'homme] (2002); Back Room (1999); Bright Spell [L'embellie] (2000); Campfire [Kampvuur] (2000); Golden Whore [Puta de oros] (2000); Knock at the Door (2000); Three Wishes [Drei Wünsche] (2000).

Apart from a loose affair with the traveling feed salesman Gerd, the life of Brandenburg farmer Jutta consists only of work - and her cow Gloria. Gloria is a magnificent cow, the most beautiful in the whole of Brandenburg. Now Jutta plans to make her Miss Germany. For Jutta, Gloria is the center of her little world, but for her brother Thomas, who comes to visit unexpectedly after the death of their father, this devotion is highly irritating. Admittedly, Gloria is a gem, but she is still just a cow!

Wildlife ranger Sara Jahnke prefers to live in the solitude of Canada's forests rather than among people. In her home in Brandenburg, with her father Robert Jahnke and her grown-up daughter Julia, she can only manage for a limited time. Shortly before her return to Canada, Sara is commissioned to track down and remove a wolf that has become conspicuous. When she finds the body of a Romanian seasonal worker, an outrageous suspicion arises. Is Silvana the first victim of a fatal wolf attack in several hundred years?

Stine Olson is reunited with his childhood friend Jan and his brother Paul. Both want to sell a property inherited from their father and hire Stine to organize the demolition of the house.

This documentary examines whether air travel is still the safest form of transport, after an Airbus 320 crashed in the Alps with the loss of 150 lives.

While life in a provincial town in eastern Germany near the Polish border has virtually come to a standstill, a dynamic young entrepreneur, his wife, and a laconic, resigned dropout strive to make a new start. But their dreams of revitalizing the region with a train station bistro and spa business fade away in (self-)deception, hangovers, and small escapes.