Christiane Carstens

Never Sleep Again (1992)

After attending a wedding on a steamboat traveling down the river Spree, three friends from Hamburg become stranded in a newly reunified Berlin. They begin a restless odyssey through the wastelands of a metropolis wavering between an unpredictable future a ...

Schlagbaum (1992)

Burning Beds (1988)

Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity, with Harry, who has been tried and tested in marital warfare, and relationship terrorist Gina proving to ...

Schloß und Siegel (1987)

Two inmates make written contact through a personal ad that is hidden and found in a pair of work trousers. The pen-pal relationship turns into love, whose future remains uncertain after a personal encounter. ...

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen (1984)

Based on Nikolai Erdman's banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life ...