Directing

Stephan Wagner

Born 1968-11-15 · Mainz, Germany

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pinky Promise poster
NR

Two childhood friends reunite after a year of silence for a movie night. But as secrets unfold, they have to confront the messy truths behind growing up.

Pinky Promise

Kubanisch rauchen poster
7.0

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.

Kubanisch rauchen

1999

Kubanisch rauchen poster
7.0

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.

Kubanisch rauchen

1999

Kubanisch rauchen poster
7.0

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.

Kubanisch rauchen

1999

No artwork available
10.0

A warm summer night - waiting for the bus - observations.

Nachtbus

1995

No artwork available
10.0

A warm summer night - waiting for the bus - observations.

Nachtbus

1995

No artwork available
10.0

A warm summer night - waiting for the bus - observations.

Nachtbus

1995

No artwork available
9.0

During the course of his 36 years of service as a Viennese taxi driver. Mr. Joschi has covered over 1.5 million kilometres in Vienna...using the same car all these years. Now he is retiring, and with him a piece of Viennese history is disappearing, irretrievably. The film accompanies him on his last journey.

Der Taxichauffeur

1995

No artwork available
9.0

During the course of his 36 years of service as a Viennese taxi driver. Mr. Joschi has covered over 1.5 million kilometres in Vienna...using the same car all these years. Now he is retiring, and with him a piece of Viennese history is disappearing, irretrievably. The film accompanies him on his last journey.

Der Taxichauffeur

1995

No artwork available
9.0

During the course of his 36 years of service as a Viennese taxi driver. Mr. Joschi has covered over 1.5 million kilometres in Vienna...using the same car all these years. Now he is retiring, and with him a piece of Viennese history is disappearing, irretrievably. The film accompanies him on his last journey.

Der Taxichauffeur

1995

No artwork available
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebestod

2000

No artwork available
7.0

A gasman at work. A couple who go big-game hunting have a collection of trophies. Daily life in the jungle of the city, biding time and drinking tea.

Großwildjagd

1993

No artwork available
7.0

A gasman at work. A couple who go big-game hunting have a collection of trophies. Daily life in the jungle of the city, biding time and drinking tea.

Großwildjagd

1993

Europe - 99euro-films 2 poster
4.0

Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved...

Europe - 99euro-films 2

2003

Europe - 99euro-films 2 poster
4.0

Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved...

Europe - 99euro-films 2

2003

Mord in Eberswalde poster
5.5

Heinz Gödicke is the chief commissioner of the People's Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two bestial murdered children are found in the forest. The investigator tries to get involved in the perpetrators - a rarely used method at the People's Police - and the perpetrator so on the track. The Stasi-Major Witt is no friend of this procedure and leaves the commissioner only reluctantly free hand in the investigation. The matter does not go to the authorities fast enough and is then simply put to the files. When another murder occurs, it becomes clear that Gödicke was much closer to the enlightenment of the act than everyone thought.

Mord in Eberswalde

2013

The General Case poster
6.7

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.

The General Case

2016

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis poster
6.1

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

2020

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis poster
6.1

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

2020

Harter Brocken poster
6.3

A landslide in the Harz releases a corpse. Commissioner Frank Koops leads the investigation. Vanessa Riemann, tourist guide and marksman from St. Andreasberg, sees a lot of money in the backpack of the two hikers and attacks. On her breakneck escape through the undergrowth she is shot and bleeding in the arms of her brother Marco. In her backpack this finds 1.4 million euros – the booty from a bank robbery.

Harter Brocken

2015

Der Stich des Skorpion poster
7.3

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in together, who becomes pregnant by him and whom he soon marries. One day, an old friend, Dieter Michaelis, a fellow prisoner from Bautzen, comes to the reception center and asks Stein to work as an escape helper for his brother-in-law living in the GDR.

Der Stich des Skorpion

2004

The Case of Jakob von Metzler poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Case of Jakob von Metzler

2012

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der Solist - Kuriertag

2003

No artwork available
7.0

Back then they were just friends, now they are a couple: "Mothers, Fathers, Children" is the sequel to the comedy "How do I raise my mother?". This time it's about the joys and sorrows of the patchwork family: Ginger, the eternal flower child, has to look after her sick mother, neglects her boyfriend Hans and learns to appreciate nurse Laurens in return. Hans, on the other hand, is courted by Marianne, Ginger's daughter wants to meet her biological father, and son Max is deeply in love.

Mütter Väter Kinder

2008