Christine Schorn

Winterwalzer (2023)

Albert Gottwald is a retired dance teacher and has been a widower for three years. He misses his wife so much that he has lost all courage to face life, buries himself in his semi-detached house - and meticulously plans his death. ...

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age. ...

Da hilft nur beten! (2023)

For the young nun Charlotte, the strict convent life is a liberation from her previous life in the fast lane. When advertising professional Conrad is stranded in the convent on a business trip, Charlotte feels vindicated in her decision to choose life in t ...

Talking About the Weather (2022)

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has ...

Eisland (2021)

For Marko, life mainly consists of frozen pizzas and back pain. For almost 30 years, the widower has been hauling frozen goods for the company "Eisland" to the front doors of his mostly older customers. When Marko has to take early retirement due to illnes ...

All My Loving (2019)

Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that ...

Urlaub mit Mama (2018)

Andrea actually wanted to spend a nice weekend in Italy with her brother Martin and her mother Helga. But when Martin abandons her shortly before departure, she sets off to Verona alone with her mother, to whom they had given the trip as a present for her ...

Mission: Love (2018)

Hans calls his girlfriend Heinz, which tells you everything you need to know about their relationship. They're a typical couple who're stuck in a rut after eight years. Hans works at a copy shop and Heinz is an actress relegated to voicing a cartoon stopli ...

The Garden (2017)

In the summer of 1976, a shared family yard becomes the setting, as the adults bicker over selling the garden and the kids are free to explore the mysterious neighboring lot. Then they hear about a girl that has disappeared... ...

Happy Burnout (2017)

An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic. ...

Stadtlandliebe (2016)

Sam and Anna are part of the hip, vegan, green, eco-friendly, upper-class subculture of Berlin. Anna is a successful doctor, and Nick works in advertising. However, life in Germany's capital is fast-paced and stressful, so the two of them decide to take th ...

Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt (2015)

Like every year, Gerald and Gundula celebrate Christmas with the whole family. But Christmas Eve turns into a disaster in which Gundula loses his nerve. It was not to be expected that her mother and mother-in-law would warm up the old stories and that her ...

Beyond This Day (2015)

Beyond the Day is a 2015 drama about a retired Professor and a taxi driver who accompanies him for a whole day of driving and talking. ...

The Chambermaid Lynn (2015)

Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon. ...

Konrad und Katharina (2014)

Katharina beats more badly with budget releases and the care of nine-year-old Georg. Konrad knows her from earlier when she was still driving a taxi and she regularly took him and his sick wife to the hospital. Now Konrad's wife is dead and Katharina was a ...

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren (2014)

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: they have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, conflicts and problems. What unites them is the longing for closeness — for a loving partner and the somew ...

Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren (2013)

When the farm boy Felix is born with a caul, the rumor spreads in no time that this boy can succeed in anything. One day he would even marry the princess - he just has to trust in his own destiny. But the king and alchemist Ottokar, however is obsessed onl ...

Einmal Leben bitte (2013)

Made for TV movie starring Anja Kling, Filip Peeters and Christine Schorn ...

Life Is Not for Cowards (2013)

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus' attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can't let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her feelin ...

Harry nervt (2013)

Because photographer Harry Wegener loves animals and nature, he travels a lot and therefore has little time for his family. His wife Katharina has already filed for divorce, but has so far neglected to sign the papers, and he has also made a mess of things ...

Jesus Loves Me (2012)

A girl who always tends to fall in love with the wrong guy meets one who believes the world is coming to an end next Tuesday. ...

Willkommen in Kölleda (2012)

Jens Lehnert sends his grumpy consultancy partner and key employee Carla Schneider to audit the old-fashioned mint farming of a collective in Saxony. In an attempt to coax a probably negative report, unwitting the assessor is female, she's lodged with its ...

Stopped on Track (2011)

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death. ...

Men in the City 2 (2011)

The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters. ...

Die Stunde des Wolfes (2011)

Rebecca Thalberg escapes from a psychiatric ward to finally clear up the dark history of her husband Henry's family in the Ore Mountains. The locals turn out to be secretive and hostile. However, the local forester immediately falls in love with the beauti ...

Der kleine Nazi (2010)

Christmas Eve at a senile grandmother's place takes a turn for the worse when the daughter of the family brings her jewish boyfriend to find that the tree is dressed in ornaments from the 1930s ...

8:28 AM (2010)

A married woman runs a successful gallery and falls for a man she met accidentally. ...

Das Glück ist eine ernste Sache (2009)

Olivia is hard hit by life. Her husband Klaus is buttering her up and her therapist is losing patience. Then self-centered mother Kora wakes up from her coma and brings her dubious lover Rudi with her from rehab. ...

Hoffnung für Kummerow (2009)

Kummerow - a small town somewhere in Germany. Young people are moving away, jobs are scarce. Oskar Kubiczek, mayor, pub owner and optimist, is fighting for his town and fighting for his wife. A Bavarian company wants to invest in the region and a consultan ...

November Child (2008)

Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two l ...

According to Plan (2007)

It's mom's birthday and her three daughters want to throw a big party. But everything turns out differently. It's not just because the divorced dad arrives a few days early and brings his much-too-young new girlfriend with him, or because the birthday girl ...

Die Weihnachtswette (2006)

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Nichts als Gespenster (2006)

Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love. ...

Die Mauer – Berlin '61 (2006)

August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin. One evening, he and his wife are invited to the Sawatzkes' house. Meanwhile, their son Paul stays with a ...

Eine Chance für die Liebe (2006)

Marianne is diagnosed with cancer. She doesn't dare confide in her stressed husband and two grown-up children. It is only when she meets her childhood friend Philipp that she learns to believe in the future again. ...

Pommery und Leichenschmaus (2006)

Just as Mom is pondering the whereabouts of his urn, Dad, who was declared dead, stands at the door! He just wanted to check that everything was okay... The way Dad's unexpected return reopens old wounds in the family that has grown up without him is beaut ...

Die Nachrichten (2005)

Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg. ...

Hitlerkantate (2005)

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems l ...

Ein Goldfisch unter Haien (2004)

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack. ...

Coming Home (2003)

Jochen's life is going well. He has just moved into a new house with his wife and child when suddenly his widowed father accidentally runs into a car and begins to lose his mind. The family take the old man in but tensions arise when the family has to grap ...

Pommery und Putenbrust (2002)

Grill Point (2002)

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and El ...

Verzweiflung (2000)

Ulrike, released from prison, initially isolates herself due to guilt over her daughter's death. She meets Sigs, and they develop a relationship with some love, but fear of physical contact persists. Ulrike leaves Sigs when she can no longer hide her past. ...

Der Preis der Schönheit (2000)

Die Mörderin (1999)

In the Name of Innocence (1997)

The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender. ...

Erhöhte Waldbrandgefahr (1997)

Romantic comedy about an elderly intellectual and a young casual worker ...

Outside Time (1995)

Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the fall of the Wall. The film is set in a small town somewhere in Brandenburg, a place which is rapidly falli ...

Henry's Romance (1993)

It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed ...

Karate-Billi kehrt zurück (1993)

Haus Herzenstod (1992)

Scheusal (1992)

Three decades ago, they performed as the pop quartet "Altmarkspatzen" and felt great in front of the spotlights of the television cameras that had just come into fashion. Now a surprising telegram brings the four sisters Carla, Christiane, Constanze and Co ...

The Suspicion (1991)

Two people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give each other up. Flattery, lies and threats finally drive Frank to desp ...

Hüpf, Häschen, hüpf (1991)

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Stasi agents settle scores with former East German citizens who had resisted the regime. ...

Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1991)

The Lübeck merchant Friedemann owes his crippled figure to a wet nurse "devoted to drink". He lives a secluded life with his three simple-minded sisters and his bedridden mother, loving only the theater and music. Only Gerda, the unhappy wife of the distr ...

Superstau (1991)

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam. ...

Versteckte Fallen (1991)

Claudia and Georg Rattey, a married couple, have everything what people in their mid-thirties might wish for: a car, a farmhouse for vacations on the weekends, and their son Oliver. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner voi ...

Die Ritter der Tafelrunde (1990)

Aging Knights of the Round Table confront a fading realm as moral decay and disillusionment spread. King Arthur doubts the Grail quest; Gawain and Lancelot return unchanged or failed. Parzival, now a chronicler, refuses to revive past glories. ...

Selbstversuch (1990)

Television film based on a short story by Christa Wolf. ...

Diktatur des Gewissens (1990)

Nathan der Weise (1990)

Der Magdalenenbaum (1989)

The young sailor Felix Striebel goes on vacation to a village and visits the fresh grave of "Mother Magda". ...

Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears (1988)

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the woods, in a tower with no doors. Then, one day, a mysterious stranger comes for a visit. ...

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 ...

Liane (1987)

Twenty-year-old electronics technician Liane, desperate to escape her broken home, resists a demotion at work and falls for research student Jürgen. Fiercely defending colleague Kalle against unfair accusations, she overshadows her own troubles, including ...

Interrogating the Witnesses (1987)

A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came about; a rare treatment of the taboo subject of youth criminality in Socialist society. ...

Weihnachtsgeschichten (1986)

The paths of many people cross before Christmas Eve. Each of them has their own special story to tell on this day... On the morning of December 24, the doctor at the children's clinic leaves the hospital with a happy heart. The parents of little Matthias h ...

Blond Tango (1986)

For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a theater. Though his colleagues try to make him feel welcome, he feels lonely and isolated. ...

Ernst Thälmann (1986)

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, ...

The Woman and the Stranger (1985)

Based on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction, this drama tells the story of two soldiers fighting together in World War I. Karl (Joachim Latsch) and Richard (Hans-Use Bauer) become close friends while servin ...

A Strange Love (1984)

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school. She is single and relatively satisfied in her current relationship wi ...

Weiberwirtschaft (1984)

Shortly after the end of World War II, young carpenter Achim is sent to a remote farm to do some repair work. Three women from different generations administer the farm on their own: Daughter, mother, and grandmother. There are no men around since grandmot ...

Verzeihung, sehen Sie Fußball? (1983)

A high-rise building in the center of Berlin in the GDR on July 11, 1982. The final match of the soccer World Cup is being broadcast on television. Five episodes revolve around this event: Soccer fanatic Kneutzsch is torn between the exciting match and the ...

Die Schüsse der Arche Noah (1983)

Things are not going well for Klaus Wensloff. It is the last year of World War II. At school the boy hears Nazi propaganda, while at home his mother tells him Bible stories and his father explain the world revolution. ...

Steckbrieflich gesucht (1982)

Apprehension (1982)

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as a psychologist and social worker and is involved with a married man. Suddenly, Inge finds out she may have breast cancer, which would mean an operation the ...

Return to Haifa (1982)

Return to Haifa is based on Kanafani's novel the plot of which takes place in 1967, when Palestinian refugees living in the newly occupied territories had an opportunity to visit the places from which they had been expelled in 1948. ...

Schwarzes Gold (1981)

East German television film. ...

Suturp - eine Liebesgeschichte (1981)

It is the time before the First World War - in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast, the unusual love story of the young, ambitious lawyer Belling and the fun-loving actress Franziska begins. The young couple believes in career in the neighboring big ...

Our Short Life (1981)

The fun-loving, 26-year-old architect Franziska Linkerhand (Simone Frost) works for a famous professor. Yet, she feels restrained by her dependence on him and longs to take risks. When her marriage falls apart, she moves to a small town for a fresh start. ...

Tonight and Tomorrow Morning (1980)

A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning. ...

Clausewitz - Lebensbild eines preußischen Generals (1980)

In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapters of his autobiography, which he had begun to write at the insistence of his wife Marie. Shocked by the sudden death of his friend Gneisenau, he is forced t ...

Eine Anzeige in der Zeitung (1980)

The Goose-Girl at the Fountain (1979)

A young blacksmith, searching for happiness in a series of dreams, realizes that he must find a rejected princess and hold her hand. A fairytale after the Brothers Grimm. ...

Nachtspiele (1979)

Two men and two women in a hotel. ...

Addio, piccola mia (1979)

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, but they are not successful. Büchner has to leave the country and seeks exile in France and Switzerland, w ...

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 ...

Erziehung vor Verdun (1973)

The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic ...

Her Third (1972)

In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, and one lesbian friendship which she retains. She is looking for a husband, though, and thinks she has spot ...

Kein Mann für Camp Detrick (1970)

Who doesn't know the dream of an unexpected million-dollar inheritance? For microbiologist Dr. Wolf, it seems to come true when an American lawyer visits him to tell him about the death of his distant uncle in the USA. Wolf is to receive an inheritance wor ...

Die Heirat (1968)