Axel Wandtke

Mountain of Miracle (2025)

Lonely online miracle worker Olli Hermes cannot accept that his favorite show "Dr. Burg - der Herzchirurg" is being cancelled after 35 years. During the last episode, his reality merges with the world of the series. Now Olli is faced with the big questi ...

Allein zwischen den Fronten (2024)

When police officer Jan Vogt wakes up in hospital after an escalated demonstration, the public blames him for what happened. One person died and many more were injured. But what really led to this momentous incident? LKA inspector Charlotte Stauffer leads ...

Vernon Subutex 1 (2021)

In the heyday of rock 'n' roll, Vernon Subutex was one of the most knowledgeable and renowned record store owners in Paris. But since the digital revolution finally forced him to close his doors, this soon-to-be fifty-something, penniless, single and unatt ...

The Weight of Steel Title (2020)

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism. ...

Hüftkreisen mit Nancy (2019)

Max Krenke, once a promising journalist, has made himself comfortable at a third-rate newspaper; as a husband and family man, he keeps the hamster wheel of everyday life running. Until he is laid off without notice on his 45th birthday of all days. ...

The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)

Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away. ...

1648: The Long Road to Peace (2018)

October 2018 was the four-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The documentary traces the story of how it was finally brought to an end with the peace of Munster and Osnabruck – the first peace in European history to be conclud ...

Der Kommissar und das Kind (2017)

Two-year-old Paulina is suddenly no longer in her crib, and everything points to an abduction. But the hijacker does not answer. ...

In Times of Fading Light (2017)

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown. ...

Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen (2016)

Frantz (2016)

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance's grave to lay flowers. ...

Ein Mann unter Verdacht (2016)

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusati ...

Die Klasse - Berlin '61 (2015)

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as border crossers who live in East Berlin but commute to the West every day come together for lessons every day. Afte ...

Brandmal (2015)

A series of ritual murders shakes Hamburg. First a songwriter is stabbed and scalped, then a scientist. Investigations by Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan Fabel lead into the left student scene of the 1980s. Both victims belonged to the environment of the terror ...

Sushi in Suhl (2012)

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise f ...

Hotel Lux (2011)

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comin ...

Die Entbehrlichen (2009)

Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage. ...

Sunstroke (2009)

Girl, mother, lover - all in the body of a teenager. Maja has to face the responsibility of early motherhood. Being a child herself she can't stand the pressure. Running away from her beloved baby turns out to be her first mature decision. ...

Ich wollte nicht töten (2007)

Young Lena Kehl urgently wants to speak to the Berlin star reporter Meike Marndorfer, but is then driven to her death. Meike senses a story about old Stasi machinations and investigates in Lena's home town of Neubrandenburg. Together with Lena's boyfriend ...

Fed Up! (2005)

Kaminsky is a long-distance driver disappointed both in life and other people. His last duty as a drives takes him to Estonia where he decides to fulfill an old promise. By chance, Kaminsky meets an Estonian cellist Stella on his road. Her career in German ...

The Hollies (2003)

Living holograms, called Hollies, are helped by their human finders to get home. ...

Der Handymörder (1998)

Former GDR secret service agent Wolfgang Dreher is sentenced to life imprisonment. While still in the courtroom, he threatens to wake up his sleepers if the sentence is not overturned. The assignment: the Federal Prosecutor General. Nicola Helling, an agen ...

Prinz zu entsorgen (1995)

Environmental protection and fair working conditions do not matter one bit to the fashion label "Lorena". However, the company ends up in court because of an illegal commercial that violated the anti-discrimination law. The managing partner Roman Hertz is ...

Schlaflose Tage (1991)

Immensee (1989)

Young Elisabeth goes on a country trip with her mother, her friends Reinhard and Erich, their parents and the pastor. While the adults prepare a picnic lunch, the three youngest members of the group are asked to look for berries for dessert. The dutiful Er ...

Coming Out (1989)

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is. ...