Andreas Dresen

From Hilde, with Love (2024)

In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant. ...

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens. ...

Nude Pictures (2020)

Two couples meet on a deserted beach. Politeness soon turns into an emotional and physical striptease. ...

Gundermann (2018)

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR. ...

The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017)

The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win. ...

As We Were Dreaming (2015)

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall. ...

Henryk from the Back Row (2012)

A new dramedic documentary about what politics and democracy mean when your working in the rough business of parlamentarian tasks, assemblies and your every day live in your constituency. Are there things that need to be changed? ...

Stopped on Track (2011)

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death. ...

20 × Brandenburg (2010)

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2010 un ...

Whiskey with Vodka (2009)

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local a ...

Cloud 9 (2008)

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage. ...

Summer in Berlin (2005)

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas. ...

Willenbrock (2005)

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by ...

Vote for Henryk! (2003)

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark. ...

Grill Point (2002)

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and El ...

Policewoman (2000)

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities. ...

Night Shapes (1999)

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusi ...

Changing Skins (1997)

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany. ...

Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1995)

To save her married friend's African lover from deportation, Britta enters into a marriage of convenience with Farouk. With the handsome stranger, chaos enters her well-ordered single world. Things get really complicated when Britta also falls in love with ...

Silent Country (1992)

A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the lethargic theater company shows no interest in the play, his spirit remains undaunted.Meanwhile, it is fall 1989. ...

Shortcut to Istanbul (1991)

Spring 1990, Berlin: Young Niyazi of Turkish descent works at McDonald's in West Berlin and wants to return to Istanbul as soon as possible. He has heard from a friend that apartments in the eastern part of the city are much cheaper. If he worked in the we ...

Zug in die Ferne (1990)

A desolate provincial railway station and six People waiting for the late connecting train to the main station. About itchy feet and the longing of the locked in in October 1989, when the big turn of November was not in sight yet. ...

Simbabwe – Träume von der Zukunft (1990)

Jenseits von Klein Wanzleben (1989)

A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported narrow-mindedness. ...

Was jeder muss... (1988)

Susanne and Dieter are 20 years old. They have just got a Baby. Family life could start now, but Dieter has to join the army. The film accompanies him the first six weeks, shows doubts, insights and hardly acceptable conditions. A little realistic view int ...

Nachts schlafen die Ratten (1988)

A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert. ...

Konsequenzen—Peter, 25 (1987)

GDR, the last working day of an industrial worker between loud machines, shower cabins and life prospects agains all reason. ...

Andreas Dresen - Ein Leben für den Film (2024)

Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful German directors. The documentary accompanies him through the year 2023 until the opening evening at the Filmmuseum Potsdam, which is honoring him and his team with an exhibition and film series. The portrait lo ...

Wenzel: Glaubt nie, was ich singe (2023)

Heil (2015)

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ...

Move (2012)

Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search i ...

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012)

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for h ...

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear. ...

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen (2007)

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts. ...