August Zirner

Endlich Witwer - Griechische Odyssee (2024)

A Whole Life (2023)

When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, bringi ...

Head Over Heels (2023)

When Ella, the rich daughter of a corrupt banker, escapes from her arranged wedding and hides in the trunk of a Bentley,she meets Richie, a small town crook who has just stolen the Bentley. Together they stage her disappearance as a kidnappingin order to g ...

The Silent Forest (2022)

As a forestry student doing an internship, Anja Grimm ends up in that remote area in the Upper Palatinate Forest, where she went on vacation with her parents as an eight-year-old girl and her father disappeared without a trace. Her job is to take soil samp ...

Die Unschuldsvermutung (2021)

Anticipation in Salzburg Festival: the new production of "Don Giovanni" is in its final rehearsals and the arrival of the famous conductor Marius Atterson is imminent. Unfortunately, the equally famous opera director David Roth feels so provoked during a r ...

Risks + Side Effects (2021)

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his kidneys. Götz, a friend ...

Girl Meets Boy (2020)

Gwen meets Ben. Gwen is done with relationships and love for the time being. Ben shares her attitude and so the two come to an agreement. They agree on what at first seems to be a simple rule... What remains when the masks fall - how much truth do we need ...

Blame Game (2019)

Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in Zahiristan. A few days later, there's a terrorist attack on a restaurant – the video claiming re ...

Shillings from Heaven (2018)

Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Unterguggenberger accepts the mayor's office against better knowledge. But how is he supposed to save Wörgl ...

Die Affäre Borgward (2018)

The name of car manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward is still synonymous with the West German Wirtschaftswunder. For hundreds of thousands the "Isabella" from Borgward is the first car after the war while Borgward secures thousands of jobs in Bremen. But in 19 ...

Wackersdorf (2018)

Not an easy decision! District Administrator Hans Schuierer from the Upper Palatinate first opposed his own political line in 1981 and finally against the entire Bavarian Free State and Prime Minister Strauss. Because the planned reprocessing plant Wackers ...

What Doesn't Kill Us (2018)

As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with ...

Euphoria (2018)

The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost. ...

Was ich von dir weiß (2017)

Was im Leben zählt (2016)

In Munich's apartment building No. 23, one still shares in the joy and suffering of the neighbors. The single mother Miriam fell in love with the pastor Gregor. But his community is outraged. A pastor who is married to a woman who is still married is out o ...

The Children of Villa Emma (2016)

According to true events, the moving drama "The Children of Villa Emma" tells of a dangerous escape that took place during the Second World War. In 1942/1943, the Italian village of Nonantola was indeed a refuge for 73 Jewish children who wanted to escape ...

Colonia (2016)

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from. ...

Vertraue mir (2015)

The young investment banker Elena Wagner is the star at the Ahrends & Oppermann bank in Frankfurt. She loves her job and subordinates everything else to it. She even ends her relationship with IT boss Marc for her work. Suddenly, however, she is excluded f ...

Meister des Todes (2015)

Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko. ...

It Gets Even Better (2015)

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

The Misplaced World (2015)

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, ...

Nele in Berlin (2015)

Nele is studying pharmacy in Berlin so that she can take over her father's pharmacy in Bad Homburg, or so her dad thinks. Hans-Peter has no idea that his daughter has dropped out of university and is restoring furniture instead. Nor does he know that his w ...

Coming In (2014)

Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay. ...

Clara Immerwahr (2014)

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle for acknowledgment in nationalistic Germany during World War I lead to the development and use of the first chemical weapons. ...

Meine Frau, ihr Traummann und ich (2014)

Commercial photographer Richard, very satisfied with himself and his life, considers himself the perfect spouse. But only until his wife Charlotte discovers her dream man on a dating portal. ...

The Tears of the Sea (2014)

Brigitta Nielebeck suffered a serious car accident in which miraculously escape unscathed. However, she has lost his memory. Doctors recommend her to spend time with family members. Therefore, make contact with Marie, her 16 year old daughter, who for two ...

Die Flut ist pünktlich (2013)

A corpse is washed up on the beach of the North Sea. The deceased is Alexander, husband of the beautiful Bettina. They have been coming to the island for a long time and possess a cottage there. At first no one doubts that Alexander died of an accident, bu ...

The Blind Spot (2013)

The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980. ...

Local Heroes (2013)

A leather jacket and eyes blackened with make-up. Tommy is a musician with heart, having long outlived his idol, Kurt Cobain. Like him, though, he is also self-destructive and is drawn increasingly into a musical mania and alcohol excess. For the dream of ...

Obendrüber, da schneit es (2012)

Christmas! Every year, expectations are high again. And that's why a little dissatisfaction quickly becomes the deepest despair. "Over there, it's snowing" tells of the joy and sorrow of December 23rd and 24th, as experienced by the residents of a Munich t ...

The Dead and the Living (2012)

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losin ...

Homecoming (2012)

August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August reali ...

Hermann Hesse – Superstar (2012)

Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize winner in 1946, is not only the world's most widely read German-language author of all time, with a total of more than 100 million books in print, but also, with Karl Marx, perhaps the most influential. The documentary follows h ...

Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2012)

A violent crime shakes Inspector Kluftinger's idyllic hometown of Altusried. The murdered man worked as the manager of a nearby dairy and was hated because he cut the price of milk to the bone. This affects the farmers, with whom the detective plays in the ...

Sams im Glück (2012)

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home for 10 years, you slowly but steadily become a Sams yourself. And this is exactly what happens to Mr. Taschenbier. You can ...

Flesh and Blood (2011)

Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful career as a businesswoman. When her friends Bogdan and Mimi adopt a Ukrainian child, she remembers her own chi ...

Für kein Geld der Welt (2011)

After years abroad, the entrepreneur's daughter Isabella Meinhardt returns to Germany at the request of her widowed father Friedrich. But instead of accepting her onto the board of his automobile factory as expected, Friedrich presents his stunned daughter ...

My Family kills me (2011)

Helen, in her early 50s, really doesn't know which problem she should solve first: her husband seems to be cheating on her, the children are in terrible puberty, things aren't going well with the gardening business, and she herself is going through menopau ...

Der Kardinal (2011)

The semi-documentary film contains fictional scenes as well as archive footage of the life and work of the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz König (1905–2004). ...

Meine Schwester (2011)

Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now close the lovingly run shop. So far, she was able to withstand Ortner's harassment, but the dreamy old la ...

An Intern For Life (2010)

Amigo - Dead on Arrival (2010)

Two BKA investigators fly to Italy to arrest the ex-RAF terrorist Amigo Steiger, who has gone into hiding there. The arrest ends in bloodshed. Steiger escapes and travels to Hamburg to find out who betrayed him... ...

The Last 30 Years (2010)

It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen movements. For Resa it is love on first sight when she encounters the handsome and self-confident activist Oskar and is willing to do anything to get his attent ...

Die Hebamme - Auf Leben und Tod (2010)

The heroine is a traveler between worlds and times. Between the authorities of 1813, the church and science, Rosa Koelbl remains a stranger. The time is not yet ripe for the values ​​this woman embodies. ...

So ein Schlamassel (2010)

Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois fa ...

Ein Dorf sieht Mord (2009)

Lilys Geheimnis (2009)

Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help. ...

Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi (2009)

Chief detective Kluftinger from the Allgäu can't believe his eyes. A dead crow lies carefully draped on the murder victim. In the course of the investigation, Kluftinger comes across a perpetrator who murders according to Allgäu legends. ...

Berlin '36 (2009)

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on ...

Dr. Hope (2009)

Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century. ...

Schlaflos (2009)

After 12 years in prison, Carla Sagmeister is finally released. Due to an erroneous expert opinion by forensic scientist Dr. Borchert, she was innocently convicted of the manslaughter of her lover. Back in freedom, she wants to force Dr. Borchert to reopen ...

Stürme in Afrika (2009)

The attractive Eva Färber has been the perfect wife for 22 years. However, the calm and steady married life of the mother of two is disrupted when she receives the news that her father is seriously ill and is visiting her sister Hanna in South Africa. Eva ...

Der Hochzeitswalzer (2008)

Concert pianist Lotta's big comeback is imminent - but she feels that her piano playing still lacks the magic that once enchanted people so much. To regain her old inspiration, she travels alone to a small hotel in the Rheingau. Here she seeks peace and qu ...

Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss (2008)

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß - required viewing for all SS members. This documentary is an eye-opening ex ...

Human Failure (2008)

Using first-hand accounts, award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history. ...

Selbstgespräche (2008)

With a smile and beautiful words, you can create trust, build sympathy and sell your counterpart everything within four minutes. Welcome to the call center, the collection point for lifelong dreams in financial straits. If you're young and need money, you' ...

Ein starker Abgang (2008)

When the writer Heinz Kilian goes to the doctor because of stomach problems, the doctor urges him to be accompanied on his upcoming reading tour by nutritionist Vera Hartel. The two elderly gentlemen, who are driven by long-time publishing house employee H ...

Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Alles anders (2008)

1974, the year of the oil crisis and car-free day. Things are going haywire for the Redlich and Berkovitz families. Elfi Redlich finds her supposed great love in Ireland. Daughter Moni invests her 15,000 Schilling marriage premium in her first apartment. S ...

Herr Bello (2007)

After his mother's death, the 12-year-old Max, son of pharmacist Sternheim, wishes for a pet. One day a dog appears in Max's life. By his power of persuasion he is allowed to keep this dog and names him "Bello". In the meantime a new tenant, Verena Lichtbl ...

Meine böse Freundin (2007)

The Counterfeiters (2007)

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. ...

Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Nur keine Wellen (2006)

October 1960. Nineteen-year-old Charlie tries his luck as a rock 'n' roll musician on the Reeperbahn. His mother Elfi has her hands full with her sick mother, her unstable husband Viktor, daughter Moni, who finally wants to stand on her own two feet, and h ...

Rage (2006)

Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. ...

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 ...

Leo (2006)

A murderous community of heirs is looking forward to big money too soon. After a long time, the Dargatz family meets again for the grandmother's funeral on her farm. Leo, the local priest, is entrusted with the regulation of family affairs and the opening ...

Vier Meerjungfrauen II - Liebe à la carte (2006)

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Die Mandantin (2006)

A young, enigmatic client hires defense attorney Ariane Leonhardt, confessing she intends to kill her lover. Reluctantly, Ariane uses careful questioning to unravel layers of deception and prevent the crime, even as the client's manipulations begin to infi ...

Liebe nach dem Tod (2006)

Life of Greta Bücking and Paul Markwart seems to be in perfect order. Both are happily married - until they find out that their spouse died in a plane crash. But increasingly compacted suspected that Lutz Bücking and Karin Markwart were not traveling on ...

Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Im Reich der Reblaus (2005)

Austria in the mid-1950s. Seamstress Elfi Redlich and her two children are about to emigrate to America with occupation officer Hal when her husband, missing for eleven years, returns home from Siberia. Factory owner Ulmendorff is deported to Russia on his ...

The Tube (2005)

This is the opportunity of a lifetime: Sabine Fink, a young, ambitious public prosecutor, is entrusted by Chief Public Prosecutor Grabowski with the spectacular case of a tunnel disaster. A catastrophe that cost the lives of entire families. The question o ...

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways. ...

Tara Road (2005)

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland. ...

Sergeant Pepper (2004)

A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his wealth. ...

Käthchens Traum (2004)

Carola Stern - Doppelleben (2004)

Autobiographical movie about the publicist Carola Stern. ...

Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann (2004)

Sports idol Baumann, advocate of strict controls, tested positive in 1999. ...

Vater werden ist nicht schwer (2004)

Senior teacher Frank Fauster actually has every reason to be happy: he has a responsible job as a high school principal, a nice house with a garden, an understanding wife and a bright son. Nevertheless, he is plagued by the first symptoms of a mid-life cri ...

Stärker als der Tod (2004)

Und Tschüss, Ihr Lieben (2003)

Novaks Ultimatum (2003)

Novak's Ultimatum is a Fernsehkriminalfilm from the year 2003 with Mark Keller in the lead role ...

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone (2003)

Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under ...

Vater braucht eine Frau (2002)

His office is headed by the successful lawyer Dr. Frank new with left. Even his four teenage children appreciate her Daddy Cool, because as a single father he keeps the ball flat and does not cause any unnecessary stress. The four smart kids decide that it ...

Gebürtig (2002)

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront ...

Taking Sides (2002)

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate p ...

Joe and Max (2002)

True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship. ...

Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit ...

The Slurb (2001)

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the shy Mr. Taschenbier as his "daddy," is, however, his sheer opposite: he is cheeky and chaotic and throws his well-ord ...

Mostly Martha (2001)

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, L ...

Vier Meerjungfrauen (2001)

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Der Held an meiner Seite (2001)

Albtraum einer Ehe (2001)

Hanna: wo bist Du? (2001)

Einmal Himmel und retour (2000)

Kissing My Sister (2000)

Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer. ...

Der Hahn ist tot (2000)

After work, only the canary is waiting for Rosi. Even her friend secretly giggles about the "old bag who's missed out. ...

Die Rache der Carola Waas (1999)

The Love Servant (1999)

She regularly dances at her friends' weddings. And they usually have her to thank for their marital bliss. She clearly has a knack for setting the right "amorous vibes." But for her, love isn't working out so well. A single mother, single for years, she un ...

Annaluise & Anton (1999)

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pr ...

Suzie Washington (1998)

Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her falsified visa and arrest her. Nana, threatened with deportation, would prefer anything except being sent back ...

Winter Child (1997)

Winterkind tells a tragic story of the Russian Yelena, who after seven years of captivity learns that her son Boris, born in the camp, has been adopted by a German couple. ...

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 ...

Der Wald (1997)

Der rote Schakal (1997)

Hannah (1996)

The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang. But while Hannah is still totally immersed in this passionate love affair, she unkn ...

Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden (1996)

Dein tödliches Lächeln (1996)

Risiko Null – Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan (1995)

Talk of the Town (1995)

Comedy about a woman who hosts a radio talk-show who turns thirty and worries about not having a husband. With the help of her gay brother, she places an personal advert in the local paper and meets a charming dentist. Unfortunately, she finds out he is ma ...

Due madri per Rocco (1995)

The Promise (1995)

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad ...

Ausweglos (1995)

Du bringst mich noch um (1994)

Both have families, both are gripped by a perilous passion. Simon, school professor, and Helga, wife of a successful internist, get to know each other on their daily journey to kindergarten. They fall in love, but how should it go on? ...

Zärtliche Erpresserin (1992)

After the death of her mother, Alice, who was born out of wedlock, learns that her father, who was thought to be dead, is still alive. Unopened letters from the estate put the 18-year-old on the trail of the composer Max Rab, one of her mother's ex-lovers. ...

Leas Hochzeit (1992)

Playing with Fire (1991)

Forever Young (1991)

Voyager (1991)

April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate? ...

Mauritius-Los (1991)

A comedy directed by Vivian Naefe. ...

Der Schwierige (1991)

Café Europa (1990)

A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant. ...

True Love (1990)

A man and a woman meet. In the confusion of their short encounter they fail to give their names and exchange addresses. They go back to living their lives without the prospect of seeing each other again. From then on, the dream of true love interrupts the ...

Money (1989)

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. She comes up with a plan to rob her bank. When the branch manager and neighbor Lothar Fuchs, whom Carmen h ...

Felix (1988)

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Sylt he meets two nymphomaniac women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and later he ...

Pizza Express (1988)

Schlange, Herz und Pantherkopf (1987)

Now or Never (1986)

Mo lost her heart to Tom, but left him nine years ago for no apparent reason. Now she lives together with son Benjamin in Hamburg. Mo has another man, Tom has been living with another woman for some time. When Mo learns that she is terminally ill, she retu ...

Tapetenwechsel (1984)

Munich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without an apartment, Mona's boyfriend Thomas feels unable to continue the relationship. After all, he knows a "ni ...

Die Aufgabe des Dr. med. Graefe (1982)

Kur in Travemünde (1979)

Evas Rippe (1975)

Am Wege (1975)