Adolfo Assor

Mamántula (2023)

Mamántula is the boy everyone wants, but also a giant spider transvesting as a human, fruit of a brief encounter in the Berlin Tiergarten, in an alternate past of brutalist saunas, endless subway corridors and detectives with raincoats and hats. Each of M ...

Ein Jahr, zwei Winter (2022)

When Mara flees from the military dictatorship in her country of origin in Latin America, she leaves a lot behind. Twenty years later, mother and daughter are living in Berlin when an amnesty and compensation for the exiles are announced. The events and th ...

Darkness Is A Color (2019)

Horst is a hunter trying to stave off the inevitability of aging. Futile, as we all know. Nevertheless, he suffers a crisis of identity about himself, his world, and the forests and glades he so loves. Two days after the disappearing of his gundog Birko, H ...

Ein Sommer in Salamanca (2019)

Even though everyday life separates them, sisters Rike and Nicola go on vacation together once a year. They take it in turns to organize their trip. Their trips are just as different as the two of them themselves, so that the trip to Salamanca in Spain onc ...

Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (2018)

The sisters Rosalie and Bianca stick together, come what may. In fact, they have no other choice - their mother has died and left them with a pile of debts. Taking part in a design competition is supposed to help. The organizer is the famous fashion czar P ...

Sesamstraße präsentiert: Alarm im Zirkus (2018)

Herr Lenz reist in den Frühling (2016)

Holger Lenz tried to do everything right in life and is still faced with the shards of his existence. His wife Ilona cheats, his son Linus mocks him on the internet, and younger people overtake him in the office. Even the family dog ​​treats the man in ...

I'm Off Then (2015)

Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there. ...

Victoria (2015)

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. ...

The Golden Goose (2013)

Simpleton is a poor carpenter's apprentice. Everyone makes fun of his naivete. His greatest wish is to make the sad Princess happy. When he gets a Golden Goose as a gift, he resolves to give it to the Princess... ...

Chicken with Plums (2011)

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. ...

Urban Explorer (2011)

Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their gu ...

Eleven Uncle (2010)

The young prince decides to take revenge:putting himself insane, he wants to enlighten the murder of his father. Hamlet travels to England for a year and returns to kill the 11 uncles and save his mother. ...

Captain Berlin vs. Hitler (2009)

After the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler's evil dictatorship. They formulated a plan to bio-engineer super-human assassins, eventually finding their man in one Captain Berlin. ...

Vollidiot (2007)

Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ag ...

Ladenhüter (2007)

Great is the Mystery of Godliness (2004)

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it's time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty p ...

Ultima Thule (2002)

A short drama directed by Holger Mandel. ...

Nightfall (1999)

A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by German-speaking sots and Portuguese guest workers. An unhappy young couple, Leni and Anton, quarrel and sp ...

Frost (1997)

Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, moth ...

Heimsuchung (1990)

The film is set in 1989/1990 at a time when the "socialist" ideology underwent another major revolutionary collapse and the supposedly only progressive German "socialist", but walled-in GDR, joined the free West German society of the Federal Republic of Ge ...

Melanios letzte Liebe (1988)