Hildegard Schmahl

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel...

When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't want to part with his pub, the Dorfkrug,...

When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in...

Housewife Marie is surprised by the tragic death of her husband. Suddenly she has to look after her family alone. Fortunately, her husband was an...

Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an...

Gentle, patient Bavarian policeman Barney Brunner soon starts regretting having agreed to merge his household -including duly skeptic preteen son...

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires,...

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is the life motto of 30-year-old Agnieszka. After serving five years in prison, Agnieszka flees Poland for...

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...

Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far...

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...

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal...

An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.

The good thing about a low point is, you can not fall lower. At least the unemployed Maria Kowalke thinks after her break-up and when the "strange"...

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the...

Depicts a murky masochistic relationship.

Documentary in two parts that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German...

Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young...