Andrea Sawatzki

Rapunzel and the Return of the Falcons (2024)

Orphaned crown prince Sigismund, controlled by regent Queen Freya, climbs the Falcon dynasty's sacred tower with help from sorceress Eleonor, reawakened to magic by her adopted daughter Rapunzel, Sigi's childhood friend. After Eleonor's refusal to serve th ...

Entführen für Anfänger (2024)

The accountant Adam can hardly believe it: Shortly before his 40th anniversary at the Moser family beauty business, his boss Rob sends him off to retirement early. The job will soon be taken over by AI! To get back at the beauty guru, Adam kidnaps his wife ...

Querschuss (2024)

Shortly before his 80th birthday, a former doctor takes his own life. Auscultating the consequences of the tragedy on those closest to him, this is a delicate drama on a social subject rarely tackled on screen. ...

Thabo and the Rhino Case (2023)

Eleven-year-old Thabo wants to become a private detective like in the movies. If only his home, the small African village of Hlatikulu, was not the most peaceful savannah paradise. But things take a sudden turn when a rhino is murdered in the neighboring s ...

Familie Bundschuh – Bundschuh gegen Bundschuh (2023)

Sterben ist auch keine Lösung (2023)

There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for the right way to die. Cancer-stricken pensioner Hermann is having a hard time dealing with the inevitable: He doesn't want to wait for death and instead wants to give it a helping hand - but discreetly. ...

Freibad (2022)

It's summer and very hot in Germany's only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women bathe topless, in a bikini, bathing suit or burkini. Each follows different rules. This always leads to friction, which the overwhelmed lifeguard is not quite able to ...

Familie Bundschuh - Unter Verschluss (2022)

Familie Bundschuh – Woanders ist es auch nicht ruhiger (2021)

The Bundschuhs buy an old manor house, which of course is very popular with all family members. So Hadi and Rose, Ilse and Susanne nest there, but don't even think about helping Gundula with the necessary renovation work. To make matters worse, the monumen ...

Notes of Berlin (2021)

A film inspired by one of Germany's most visited blogs. The author of the site www.notesofberlin.com, Joab Nist, posts pictures of real announcements, notes, information that people leave in the streets of Berlin. The film follows 15 genuine notes and prot ...

Sprachlos in Irland (2021)

For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over the business, forcing new demands on the workforce. In future, English is to be the business language. Engl ...

Help, I Shrunk My Friends (2021)

Melanie is a new pupil at the Otto Leonhard High School, and Felix takes a real shine to this newbie, much to the annoyance of Ella and Felix's gang. They believe that Melanie is responsible for a number of small thefts that have been happening at the scho ...

Sportabzeichen für Anfänger (2021)

Cookie manufacturer Bertram Dinkler with his old-fashioned know-it-all attitude triggers an unexpected fighting spirit not in the teenagers, but in single mother Stefanie Eckhoff. Stefanie challenges Bertram. She wants him to do a sports badge and try to d ...

Familie Bundschuh im Weihnachtschaos (2020)

The Bundschuh family gets new neighbours, but there the trouble starts for Gundula and Gerald. Brother-in-law Hadi and his wife Rose are the new neighbors and from that moment on everything goes wrong for the Bundschuhs. ...

Schneewittchen am See (2020)

Smilla Witte (Maria Ehrich) always dreamed of working as a cook in her parents' excursion restaurant "Schneewittchen am See". But after the sudden death of her mother, Smilla literally fled from home ten years ago. After a long time Smilla wants to spend t ...

Matze, Kebab und Sauerkraut (2020)

Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously fr ...

Familie Bundschuh - Wir machen Abitur (2019)

Zoros Solo (2019)

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master. ...

Cleo (2019)

Can Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past. ...

Paul Auster: What If (2019)

A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, an exploration of human identity and the soul of New York, the city that Auster has portrayed as no one else has ever done. ...

Nimm Du ihn (2019)

Siblings Mareike, Dietrich and Felicitas Reber can hardly believe their eyes when, after an absence of 50 years, their father Xaver, who was thought to have disappeared in Argentina, suddenly turns up on their doorstep - penniless, without a pension or hea ...

Es bleibt in der Familie (2018)

She wants an IUD and a baby: a mix-up at the gynecologist's appointment is the beginning of a nightmare come true for Lola, a young woman in her late forties: she is the frontwoman of a Berlin rock band and has not the slightest interest in a serious relat ...

Scheidung für Anfänger (2018)

Anja and Christop Bremermann have been married for 24 years and have to admit that their love for each other is slowly fading. They decide to divorce by mutual agreement. But the whole thing doesn't go as smoothly in practice as they initially thought. By ...

Magnificent Times (2018)

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day... ...

Ihr seid natürlich eingeladen (2018)

Help, I Shrunk My Parents (2018)

Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the once hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former shrunken and skelet ...

Casting (2017)

For her first television film, director Vera wants the perfect cast. But the first day of shooting is fast approaching and the numerous casting sessions have yet to find a suitable actress to play the leading role. Although the producer and crew are gettin ...

Südstadt (2017)

One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything ri ...

Von Erholung war nie die Rede (2017)

Gundula Bundschuh longs for a peaceful vacation under the sun of Mallorca. However, her mother-in-law's decision to invite the entire whimsical family thwarts her plans. ...

Zwei verlorene Schafe (2016)

What happens when an ambitious but unsuccessful actress in the middle of her life coaches a young, not a bit ambitious and equally unsuccessful pastor? ...

Der Athen Krimi: Trojanische Pferde (2016)

Having just arrived at his new post at the Athens homicide division, Chief Inspector Max Richter is immediately called to duty: a young musician has been found shot dead in her apartment. Together with his Greek colleague Petros Makropoulos, he immediately ...

Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt (2015)

Like every year, Gerald and Gundula celebrate Christmas with the whole family. But Christmas Eve turns into a disaster in which Gundula loses his nerve. It was not to be expected that her mother and mother-in-law would warm up the old stories and that her ...

It Gets Even Better (2015)

The 55-year-old chief secretary Ina loses her long-standing job and has to reorient herself. ...

Bella Amore - Widerstand zwecklos (2014)

Bella Casa: Hier zieht keiner aus! (2014)

Bella is a single mother business and mother trapped in the normal everyday insanity. Nevertheless, she is happy. But from now on, everything gets out of hand. The house, in which the elderly-shared apartment of Bella's father and their own physiotherapy p ...

Bella Familia - Umtausch ausgeschlossen (2013)

In the fourth film with Andrea Sawatzki as a newly invented housewife and mother Bella Jung, Bella faces a new, completely unexpected challenge: her father Friedrich. After 14 years without contact, he is suddenly drunk and destitute in front of Bella's do ...

Bella Dilemma (2013)

Bella is in a dilemma: She lives with her ex Martin and her new boyfriend Sebastian in a shared flat. Neither does she dare to pour Martin pure wine, nor to quit. Just when Bella has come to an end to the secrecy, a bad news arrives by phone: Two very good ...

Herztöne (2013)

As a little girl, Lissie Lensen had only one dream: to become a princess. Consequently, she has now ended up with the trendy women's magazine "Gossip". But unfortunately only as a small assistant, because her boss Carmen doesn't trust her to go on a celebr ...

Meine Tochter, ihr Freund und ich (2012)

When Iris learns that her husband is cheating on her with the neighbor, she moves to daughter Sandra, who lives with her boyfriend Hans. But then she falls from all clouds: Hans is by no means the study colleague or surf friend of her daughter, no, he is a ...

Bella Australia (2012)

Bella enjoys her life in Berlin after separating from her husband Martin. She buys her daughter Lena a dress for their Abifeier and proposes a joint trip around the world. However, Lena has her own plans. Why else would she drop a meeting at the mall with ...

Bliss (2012)

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship. ...

Das große Comeback (2011)

Hansi Haller was a successful pop singer in the 1980s. But now that he only performs in Bauhaus and his fame has faded, he is struggling with life. Even his agents Swens and Dreher can't help him. There is the only Hansi Haller fan club in the Eifel villag ...

Mein Bruder, sein Erbe und ich (2011)

Bella Vita (2010)

Isn't life beautiful? Isabella Jung - who everyone just calls Bella - is tempted to answer the question with a firm "No!", because her husband Martin is cheating on her with a younger colleague at his birthday party, which Bella has organized especially fo ...

Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere! (2009)

So far he has earned his living as deputy editor-in-chief at the Grevenbroicher Tagblatt, but actually Horst Schlämmer had always guessed: he was destined for something bigger - too much bigger. Without further ado, he therefore quits his old job, founds ...

Entführt (2009)

Spring 2008 in a suburb of Munich: Hannah Bergmann and her father Frank are kidnapped. The kidnappers do not just want money, they want to destroy an empire. ...

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen (2008)

Little Brother and Sister's new mother is not at all as humble and kind as she pretends to be, they are mistreated by their wicked stepmother and their new stepsister, so much that they decide to run away from home, after she poisoned their father to inher ...

Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008)

Even as a young boy, Simon hatched plans to get rid of his sister Sarah, who, as the baby of the family, drew all the love and attention of his parents. 14 years later, this childish wishful thinking become a brutal reality. ...

Der andere Junge (2007)

Evchen and Winnie Morell are very busy - with work and themselves. Just like the Wagners' neighbors and friends. None of them notice that the Morells' son is constantly being bullied and ripped off by the Wagners' big-headed boy. When Paul threatens the sh ...

Suddenly Gina (2007)

Laurens works for the German Minister of Finance and is an extremely correct and conscientious person. He knows his way around numbers, but less so with women. One day he meets Gina, a single young woman. She is sitting alone at one of the tables and Laure ...

Helen, Fred und Ted (2006)

Psychotherapist Fred Czerny is finding it difficult to retire. So he shares his busy practice in Munich with Ted Fröhlich, an advocate of modern, holistic therapy methods. They are soon joined by Helen Cordes, who no longer wants to wear herself out in a ...

Das Schneckenhaus (2006)

Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura. ...

Erkan & Stefan 3 (2005)

The 3rd movie by the comedian duo Erkan and Stefan. ...

The Next-Door Neighbour Is Alive (2005)

Schöne Witwen küssen besser (2004)

Con artist Corinna seizes the opportunity and slips into the role of a baron's widow. She manages to gain access to the chambers of a billionaire in Nice. Once on the Cote D'Azur, she promptly encounters a rival. The swindlers vie for the billionaire, or w ...

Küss mich, Kanzler! (2004)

During the hot phase of the parliamentary election campaign, the marriage of Chancellor Ben Bischof and his wife breaks down. Bischof meets the cleaning lady Mila in an accident and falls in love with her. With her warmth, cheerful pragmatism and sense of ...

Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich (2003)

"Men cheat on women, it's a law of nature." Sonja has had some bad experiences and now wants to save her sixteen-year-old daughter Nicole from the worst. The shy teenager has just won the heart of classmate Daniel. Nicole's eternally pubescent father Sven ...

Shattered Glass (2002)

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront mental illness and long-held grudges. ...

Der Unbestechliche (2002)

Leo & Claire (2002)

In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombsh ...

Der Mann von nebenan (2002)

Das verflixte 17. Jahr (2002)

Bargeld lacht (2001)

A Goddamn Job (2001)

After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe for his term in office, but also has to find a successor: the chaotic comic artist Niklas is supposed to be ...

The Hunted Child (2001)

Nico, a nine-year-old child witnesses a gruesome murder in an abandoned village and tells his mother. The woman goes to the police, but when officials get to the scene, someone has erased all traces of the crime, including the corpse. The officers then qu ...

The Experiment (2001)

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the ...

Ein tödliches Wochenende (2001)

Verzweiflung (2000)

Ulrike, released from prison, initially isolates herself due to guilt over her daughter's death. She meets Sigs, and they develop a relationship with some love, but fear of physical contact persists. Ulrike leaves Sigs when she can no longer hide her past. ...

Ants in the Pants (2000)

Flo is not quite a normal teenager: While all his friends only think about sex he can't even pronounce the word "S - E - X". But everything changes completely when one morning Flo wakes up from a strange call. His penis, excited for the first time, begins ...

Doppeltes Dreieck (1999)

Berlin public prosecutor Susanne Marquardt wakes up in hospital after an accident. The patient, who is suffering from a tumor, can't remember anything. A short time later, she wants to throw herself onto a train track. Businessman Martin pulls her back at ...

Südsee, eigene Insel (1999)

A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation. ...

Und alles wegen Mama (1999)

Late Show (1999)

Hannes Engel is a successful radio presenter in the countryside. By chance, he is heard by program director Conrad Scheffer one night, who immediately recognizes the potential of the cheeky presenter and wants to sign him up as the new figurehead for his l ...

Tod auf Amrum (1998)

Inspector Rolf Spiekermann is committed and successful, but has many enemies in Hamburg's underworld and little time for his family. That's why his wife Elke and the children are looking forward to vacationing together in Amrum. Arriving on the idyllic isl ...

Ufos über Waterlow (1998)

Liebling, vergiß die Socken nicht! (1998)

After 15 years of family hustle and bustle with her husband Max and their two children, Ally has had enough. She decides to finally realize herself and takes a job at a TV station where Max also works as a presenter of a show. Ally quickly becomes a talent ...

The Pharmacist (1997)

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams ...

Bandits (1997)

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws. ...

Life Is All You Get (1997)

After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds... ...

Die Mutter des Killers (1997)

Funeral assistant Eddie Hartmann leads an unglamorous life. Eddie is a tough guy, but an even tougher drinker. His wife goes down on him in public and Eddie dreams of killing her in cold blood. But he doesn't have the final determination. ...

Champagner und Kamillentee (1997)

Buy 1 Get 1 Free (1997)

Everyone knows them: Tupperware parties as the classic setting for commercialized housewives. Almost everyone also knows the fear of violence and assault. This short film presents a combination of both: a home demonstration based on the Tupperware party mo ...

Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia (1996)

In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She had been researching the trafficking milieu for her newspaper. Tresko is ...

Atemlos durch die Nacht (1996)

Helden haben es schwer (1996)

Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere (1995)

Zwei wie Paul und Caroline (1993)

Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle (1988)

Old scholar realizes he has wasted his life in vain trying to find a deeper meaning of life. He sells his soul to the devil to get a second chance at life. ...

Querschuss (2024)

Shortly before his 80th birthday, a former doctor takes his own life. Auscultating the consequences of the tragedy on those closest to him, this is a delicate drama on a social subject rarely tackled on screen. ...

Familie Bundschuh im Weihnachtschaos (2020)

The Bundschuh family gets new neighbours, but there the trouble starts for Gundula and Gerald. Brother-in-law Hadi and his wife Rose are the new neighbors and from that moment on everything goes wrong for the Bundschuhs. ...

Familie Bundschuh - Wir machen Abitur (2019)

Ihr seid natürlich eingeladen (2018)

Von Erholung war nie die Rede (2017)

Gundula Bundschuh longs for a peaceful vacation under the sun of Mallorca. However, her mother-in-law's decision to invite the entire whimsical family thwarts her plans. ...

Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt (2015)

Like every year, Gerald and Gundula celebrate Christmas with the whole family. But Christmas Eve turns into a disaster in which Gundula loses his nerve. It was not to be expected that her mother and mother-in-law would warm up the old stories and that her ...