Andreas Dresen

Directing

Andreas Dresen

Born 1963-08-16 · Gera, Germany

Acting credits

Move poster
6.4

Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.

Move

2012

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections poster
NR

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

2012

Moinsen! Ich bin Axel Prahl poster
NR

The actor and musician turns 65 on March 26, 2025. Time for a portrait. Axel Prahl is known to a wide audience for his role as Chief Inspector Frank Thiel in the popular “Tatort” series from Münster, a character he has embodied with gruff charm since 2002.

Moinsen! Ich bin Axel Prahl

2025

Heil poster
5.0

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Heil

2015

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NR

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen

2007

No artwork available
6.3

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

2008

Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film poster
6.5

Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the Filmmuseum Potsdam, which is honoring him and his team with an exhibition and film series. The portrait looks at his career, his artistic work and social commitment. Numerous companions have their say.

Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film

2024

Wenzel: Glaubt nie, was ich singe poster
NR

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Wenzel: Glaubt nie, was ich singe

2023

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10.0

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The documentary traces the history of the university. Graduates of the school have their say and excerpts of student films from five decades are presented.

Ein bisschen Luft unter die Flügel

2004

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NR

For more than thirty years, Andreas Dresen has been exploring the question of what makes someone German. Without resorting to patriotism, Dresen's cinema addresses the soul of his country through space, but also through time. The era of East Germany, a divided then reunified country, has an impact on characters who live their intimate, friendly, and romantic lives fiercely...

Conversation avec Andreas Dresen

2025

Behind the camera

From Hilde, with Love poster
7.0

In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.

From Hilde, with Love

2024

Night Shapes poster
6.7

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Night Shapes

1999

Night Shapes poster
6.7

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Night Shapes

1999

20 × Brandenburg poster
5.0

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 under the same production conditions: four days of filming, one week of editing.

20 × Brandenburg

2010

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter poster
7.1

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

2017

Summer in Berlin poster
6.3

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.

Summer in Berlin

2005

Cloud 9 poster
5.7

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

Cloud 9

2008

Cloud 9 poster
5.7

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

Cloud 9

2008

As We Were Dreaming poster
6.0

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

As We Were Dreaming

2015

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush poster
6.2

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

2022

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush poster
6.2

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

2022

Stopped on Track poster
6.8

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

Stopped on Track

2011

Stopped on Track poster
6.8

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

Stopped on Track

2011

Grill Point poster
6.6

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and Ellen sleep together and upset the balance of the two couples...

Grill Point

2002

Grill Point poster
6.6

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and Ellen sleep together and upset the balance of the two couples...

Grill Point

2002

Whiskey with Vodka poster
5.9

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.

Whiskey with Vodka

2009

Willenbrock poster
6.3

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.

Willenbrock

2005

Policewoman poster
6.8

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

Policewoman

2000

Gundermann poster
7.2

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Gundermann

2018

Vote for Henryk! poster
7.5

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.

Vote for Henryk!

2003

Vote for Henryk! poster
7.5

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.

Vote for Henryk!

2003

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NR

Student film depicting recess at a grade school.

Recess

1987

Silent Country poster
5.8

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.

Silent Country

1992

Silent Country poster
5.8

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. The world is changing and somewhere, far away in the capital, a revolution is taking place and it seems that wishes might come true. Great hopes emerge in the little town and unexpected events overtake Kai's mutating production.

Silent Country

1992