Esther Esche

1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War...

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their...

A comedy directed by Isabel Kleefeld.

The elaborately staged and lovingly furnished melodrama tells the moving story of a wife and mother after the Second World War. In the title role...

Charming, lonely, 400-pound railway guard Bruno discoves a new life and a new love on the road to the world Sumo wrestling championship.

After 15 years in the USA, a woman in her mid-30s returns to Germany to reconcile with her father, who had broken off contact with her. Before the...

Externally, they could be twins. But really only outwardly: the unemployed, disillusioned toolmaker Erwin Strunz and the dynamic, power-infested...

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a...

Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to...

The multiple burden as a mother, wife and author of successful historical romance novels Ellen swiss mastered always bravado. Actually, the...

The Boston lawyer Anne Clark has never realized her age: her law firm gives her age restrictions, and when she moves into her childhood sweetheart...