Christian Grashof

Harter Brocken: Der Goldrausch (2023)

When the village sheriff Frank Koops settles a dispute between the neighbors Ernst and Rudi, he has no idea that this is the prelude to murderous complications that go back far into the past. ...

Baltic Sea for Pigheaded People (2023)

Eva Jensen is a female carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast in eastern Germany. She tries to buy a workshop with a view of the sea offered for sale by Heide, who rents out beach chairs. Unfortunately, Heide's ex-husb ...

Krauses Weihnacht (2022)

Horst Krause picks up a girl on the wintry country road and brings her back to the "Kinderhaus Sonnenschein" in the neighboring village. This sets a series of events in motion that brings a few guests, big and small, to the country inn in Schönhorst durin ...

Klara Sonntag - Liebe Macht Blind (2022)

Three kilos of marijuana! The fact that drug smuggler Eda got away with a suspended sentence is due to her seven-year-old son Robert. Probation officer Klara Sunday, who knows a home childhood from her own experience, worries about him at least as much as ...

Klara Sonntag - Kleine Fische, große Fische (2021)

Klara Sonntag, probation officer, believes in the good in people. Everybody deserves a second chance. This is how she tackles her work. The judge Thomas Aschenbach, with whom she is secretly together, is at her side. ...

Ökozid (2020)

The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a ...

Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi (2020)

Kryger bleibt Krüger (2020)

Berlin pensioner Paul Krüger gets to know his place of birth in the Czech Republic. ...

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 ...

What's Left of My Life (2017)

"Everything in life happens for a reason." After the death of his pregnant wife, Schimon clings to this sentence. When he meets Milena just two weeks later and falls head over heels in love with her, he thinks he's found the reason. ...

Time Heroes (2016)

Berlin students Ben, Jonas, Leo, Ozzi and Sophie are on a class trip to "boring" Hildesheim. Their schedule includes visiting the medieval cathedral and witnessing a complete solar eclipse, but destiny intervenes… A bomb goes off at the cathedral and the ...

Der Prinz im Bärenfell (2015)

King Wenzel is worried about his succession. He gets older and his son, Prince Marius, shows no interest in state affairs. One day, during a walk in the forest, Marius is trapped by a demon. He agrees to release him and let him join his father if he finds ...

Zorn - Wo kein Licht (2015)

Steal Your Way to Christmas (2014)

The trickster Katharina is in a bind. After relieving a heavy Russian about a suitcase of money, her stooge is on his tail. Forced her immersed in a sleepy town in the Eifel. Having lost the suitcase while fleeing, Katharina urgently needs to raise new loo ...

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 ...

Alles super (2013)

Westflug - Entführung aus Liebe (2010)

1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War crisis and forcing 60 hapless passengers to decide in minutes whether to give up everything and stay in th ...

Romy (2009)

From her on-screen triumphs to her off-screen tribulations, this biopic focuses on the captivating life and career of actress Romy Schneider. ...

Liebesticket nach Hause (2008)

33-year-old Jackie has a real problem: Frederik Forster, the son of a rich and powerful Munich publishing family, has proposed to her - much to the displeasure of his mother Marianne - and Jackie has happily agreed. Now she just has to persuade her husband ...

Below the Earth's Surface (2008)

A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of tunnels under the lake. Geologist Nina Thiemann discovers that the mine tunnels are insecure and unstable. ...

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 ...

Die letzte Schlacht (2005)

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the ...

Waves (2005)

Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling's 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and i ...

Der Stich des Skorpion (2004)

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in togethe ...

Baby (2003)

Frank and Paul are best friends forever and raised Frank's daughter Lilli after a tragic car accident. The two men scrape a living by working as barmen and bouncers in a strip club while Lilly has grown into a lively and self-confident teenager. The disast ...

Whiteface (2002)

After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has reappeared: the white clown! He robbed banks and stores without a system and disappeared without a trace. Lane and Higgins, together with the worn-out journa ...

Erste Liebe (2002)

16-year-old Oliver falls in love with young Sina, who is also his father's secret lover ...

Little Angel (1997)

Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. ...

Der Trinker (1995)

Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty ...

Grüß Gott, Genosse (1993)

In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the line-loyal educator with a whitewashed CV is immediately accepted back into the teaching profession. He advances to become a model Bavarian. Until one day a pu ...

Pestalozzi's Mountain (1989)

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed ...

Jadup and Boel (1988)

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories abo ...

Schwein gehabt (1988)

In the winter of 1945/46, new teacher Hadubrant is tricked by Olly, the 14-year-old daughter of his landlady, into stealing a wild boar. It has fallen into Olly's trap, but as game is the property of the Soviet army, Hadubrant wants to put it to good use: ...

Die erste Reihe (1987)

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized. The outwardly shiny façade of Berlin, the capital of the Reich, reveals nothing of the unequal struggle ...

Jan Oppen (1987)

The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the grandson Jan has the same first name as his grandfather. The Oppens' husbands have maintained a tradition up to now: t ...

So Many Dreams (1986)

Karin, a well-known and loved midwife in her early forties, receives a high-order decoration from the state. While still overwhelmed with happiness about this honor, she is faced with a difficult decision when she encounters a young women who claims to be ...

Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is? (1985)

The "Raging Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a communist point of view, in language that sparkled with humor. Historic photographs and footage describe Kisch's eventful j ...

Visiting Van Gogh (1985)

In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from Vincent Van Gogh before he was famous. Will she be wealthy upon her return? ...

Außenseiter (1985)

Paul Schulte takes a spa stay on the Baltic Sea to have his heart condition treated. His wife Barbara accompanies him and finds interest in the valuable art objects in a nearby church. Together with her accomplice and lover Klaus Grunow, she plans to break ...

Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe (1985)

Die Zeit der Einsamkeit (1984)

The love story between Magda and Rudolf Neubert illuminates the fate of German anti-fascists in emigration. The Vichy regime in France offers them hardly any refuge, let alone protection in 1942. Like a provincial Casanova, the prefectural official Dufour ...

Olle Henry (1983)

1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a sense of opportunity. She wants to break away from the semi-world milieu, he try a comeback in the boxing ring. ...

Island of Swans (1983)

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker. Stefan must find his way in a completely new environment and surro ...

Family Gang (1982)

The worker Frank Raban lives with his wife and young daughter in a room in his mother's apartment. He builds his own home and sometimes procures materials illegally. When an after-work bricklayer wants to be paid in forum checks, Frank strikes outraged and ...

Levin's Mill (1980)

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined an ...

P.S. (1979)

When he reaches age 18, Peter is released from the children's home where he grew up, but this does not mean he is truly ready for adult life. ...

Die seltsame Reise des Alois Fingerlein (1977)

The Elective Affinities (1974)

Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come stay. Charlotte, meanwhile, decides that her foster daughter Ottilie should come live with them. Complex ...

Sechse kommen durch die Welt (1972)

The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages. One of his soldiers protest this and is thrown into jail, but he swears to someday return and take all the wealth of t ...