Bibiana Beglau

The Protected Men (2024)

Ecology, equality, sustainability: Anita and Sarah pursue lofty political goals as they establish a new feminist party. By contrast, the men who are infected by a new type of virus tend to have less honorable intentions. The consequences: sexual obsession, ...

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. ...

Kiss My Wounds (2022)

Years ago, three best friends were making a stir in Berlin's arts scene and nightlife: Maria, a director; Laura, a young actress; and Jan, a DJ. Now they all meet up on a farm in the Black Forest where Laura and Jan had moved to fulfill their dream of a ru ...

Caged Birds (2021)

Barbara Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet an unlikely alliance is formed. ...

Crescendo (2020)

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. ...

Axel the Hero (2019)

Axel lives in a poor village where people work days at the chicken farm and gamble their last pennies at night. It's made Manne, the farm and casino owner, a very powerful man. Axel's debts are so great he has to do whatever Manne says. So he works in Mann ...

BFF Detectives (2019)

Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators. ...

Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? (2019)

This is the story of an ambitious man who aims high and is determined to make a lot of money with the help of his, well, creative understanding of art. This sketchy satire deals with the rise and fall of art consultant Helge Achenbach from Düsseldorf, who ...

Sieben Stunden (2018)

She has her life firmly under control - but then the unbelievable happens. For seven hours, Hanna, who works as a psychotherapist in a Bavarian high-security prison, is taken hostage in her office by one of her patients. She is at the mercy of her tormento ...

The Bees and the Birds (2018)

Lola and her family leave Berlin to move to the Uckermarck, a picturesque yet structurally poor region north of the city. While they are looking for the simple, good life in the countryside, the locals are sceptical about the new neighbours. To bridge the ...

Different Kinds of Rain (2018)

The door has been closed for many weeks. A teenager has locked himself in - shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister. In Japan, youths like him have already been given a name: Hikikomori (the secluded). The phenomenon is also beginning to spread t ...

Luna's Revenge (2018)

When Luna's family is killed in cold blood on a mountain vacation, she barely escapes, and has to discover she's been living a lie: her dad was a Russian secret agent, and her family was just a front. Luna has the opportunity to flee the country. But first ...

Teufelsmoor (2018)

After the death of her father Georg Inga Hauck drives together with her son Max in their home village. In her old home she meets Anna Kertesz. Inga's parents had taken Anna 28 years ago after her adult brother Zoltan mysteriously disappeared. Since the sam ...

Laim und die Zeichen des Todes (2017)

Inspector Lukas Laim has the rope from which a corpse is hanging from the bridge on Prater Island cut. There are strange red marks on its stomach. The dead man is a notary from Grünwald who is well known in the city as a patron of Jewish art. And the mark ...

Hell's Bells (2017)

Monkey King (2016)

Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their ...

Über Barbarossaplatz (2016)

After the suicide of her husband and practice partner Rainer, psychologist Greta Chameni's life is turned upside down. She feels guilty about Rainer's death. And she is completely undecided about how to deal with her husband's patients. ...

The Have-Nots (2016)

The thin line between happiness and disaster: Jakob cancels a business trip to New York City because he finds out his ex-girlfriend is coming to a party in Berlin on that day: 9/11/2001. His friend Hans goes to the US instead. ...

Neid ist auch keine Lösung (2016)

An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their previous concept of life. Marie and Markus Baumgartner are a picture-book couple. But everyday working life an ...

Unter der Haut (2015)

Early 1980s: Martin Siedler, a successful press officer for a leading pharmaceutical company, believes he has the trust of his boss Walter Lange. But then he finds out that his company's supposed miracle drug, which he is promoting, carries a deadly risk. ...

Der Himmel zwischen den Welten (2015)

Willkommen im Klub (2014)

Kate is a young manic-depressive actress. One day, mentally drained and desperate, she checks into a suicide hotel. The hotel offers customers a variety of suicide options and promises total privacy. Here, she meets Viktor, a hotel employee who comes to ne ...

Mord am Höllengrund (2014)

Single mother Sabine lives with her 18-year-old son Ilya at Kochelsee in Bavaria. Ilya wants to take some time out and go on vacation to Italy with his girlfriend Cora. But Cora suddenly disappears and Ilya goes to Italy alone. When Sabine discovers a buri ...

Zurich (2014)

Terminally ill, Lea surprises her family with her wish to die, consciously and controlled, on her own birthday. Her mother tries everything to prevent the plan. But things turn out differently. Tragic and dignified. ...

Helmut Schmidt - Questions of life (2013)

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like few other chancellors. Even 30 years after the end of his ...

Zappelphilipp (2012)

The Last Employee (2011)

David Bottcher, a lawyer on a long hiatus for recovery from a mental illness, starts working as a liquidator for a firm. Things start going wrong when an employee he dismisses starts stalking him. ...

What You Don't See (2009)

Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was attending boardi ...

Il pugno di Gesù (2007)

Reverence (2006)

The near future. Every night the media show new reports about war and terror which constantly loom like a dark cloud over the nation. To protect the citizens from possible air attacks the GNOSIS Corporation has developed a personal bomb shelter for everyon ...

König Ottokars Glück und Ende (2006)

The cruel King Ottokar of Bohemia, spoiled by fortune and unpredictable, is dead. Now, with the modest Rudolf of Habsburg, peace has finally returned to Austria, for he replaces tyrannical arbitrariness with God-fearing clemency—and the way is clear for ...

3 Degrees Colder (2006)

Marie is in Spain with her friends Frank and Steini looking for her missing dream man Jan. Frank discovers him on a lonely beach, but does not reveal the secret, and the three of them return to Germany. Five years later, when Frank is now married to Marie, ...

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg (2005)

The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest. ...

Unter dem Eis (2005)

The family happiness of young mother and wife Jenny is suddenly shattered when she finds her neighbor's seven-year-old daughter Luzi dead in the woods. Everything points to her son Tim being partly responsible for Luzi's death. ...

Ricordare Anna (2005)

Der große Schlaf (2005)

On a remote island, three women live under a dreamlike haze, hiding unmet desires. Nearby, a fisherman's family is frozen by an unspoken trauma. The daughter collects sea-washed bottles, his wife dries flowers to revive lost hope, and his son tames insects ...

The Ninth Day (2004)

During WWII, head priest Henri Kremer is mysteriously freed from Dachau. He learns that he can return home to Luxembourg, for only nine days, during which he'll have to face a persuasive Gestapo chief who will put his faith to the test. ...

Off Beat (2004)

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams. ...

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and ...

Hamlet: This Is Your Family (2001)

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief's Nazi-'Hamlet' (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free ...

Birthday (2001)

Emotionally stormy Bibiana, temperamental Claudio, sexually adventurous Harald, and secretive Tamara were close friends in their college days, but the four had a falling out and have not seen one another in close to a decade. As the four are edging into th ...

Liebesschuld (2001)

Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughte ...

Doppelpass (2001)

A young couple's plan to rob a gasstation fails miserably when all of a sudden the man's former teacher, the UEFA-Cup final and a Julio Iglesias concert help them to perform the perfect robbery. ...

The Legend of Rita (2000)

Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown. ...

Der Briefbomber (2000)

No Sex (1999)

Architecture student Paul has failed again. He's been dead in bed for months. His girlfriend Ulrike angrily packs her bags. Then Paul's first self-designed house collapses and his job is gone. Short of money, he rents a room to Isabell. ...

Gegen den Strom (1998)

After a policeman is shot dead, the Hanover CID receives an anonymous tip-off that the perpetrator is also a policeman. Detective Stefan Bregert is brought in as an undercover investigator and it looks as if some of his colleagues are hiding more than they ...

Absprung (1996)

Jörn lives with his brother Thomas at his grandparents', his mother died in an accident and his father works abroad. Jörn misses his mother, whom his grandparents are unable to replace despite their loving care. He lives in a world of his own, at home he ...

2 ½ Minuten (1996)

November 1990. Weekend. Three young turk men accompanied by two German women were taking the subway. They were in an exuberant mood and wanted to visit a discotheque. When a group of drunken neo-nazi youngsters entered the train an open confrontation arose ...

Der Mörder und sein Kind (1995)

On the outside, Martin Dreyer looks like the nice neighbor next door. He lovingly looks after his paralyzed brother and his friends have never noticed him in a negative way. Nobody sees what a monster lies dormant inside him. No one suspects the incomprehe ...