Christoph Bach

The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog (2025)

A call for help from gallery owner Mr. Prentice leads the three detectives into a new adventure: his apartment is said to be haunted. When the Carpathian dog, a valuable work of art, is also stolen, events spiral out of control because all the residents ha ...

Altering Ego (2024)

Tomas looks after Martin, who has end-stage Alzheimer's, in the care home. At the same time, Tomas has a relationship with Martin's wife Petra. In the nursing home, they conceal their relationship, which is characterized by routine. ...

The Debris (2024)

For Fabian, it's all a game: finding straight men who are curious, taking them home, undressing them one piece at a time. For Martin, everything is a health hazard. Until he meets Fabian. ...

Die Amitié (2024)

Two people meet on the bus to Lübeck. You come to the Hanseatic city to work. The Polish Agnieszka as the carer of an elderly gentleman with dementia, Dieudonné from the Ivory Coast as a harvest helper on an organic tomato plantation. Agnieszka, who work ...

De Facto (2023)

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting. ...

Narvik (2022)

April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat. ...

The Deluge (2021)

A flat tire, and the date is getting closer: Martin and his daughter have a date with Mama at the playground. But she prefers to party with her friends at the Spree, like there would be no pandemic. Soon summer will arrive in Berlin. ...

Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik (2021)

For Johann Friedrich von Allmen, boredom is not an acceptable condition. During an uninspiring reading, the art detective spontaneously steals a famous Fabergé egg from the host's possession. His security officer, Krähenbühler, does not allow the unusua ...

The Auschwitz Report (2021)

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground agains ...

Giraffe (2020)

A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again. ...

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens (2020)

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian proportions - full of intrigue, passion, depravity and corruption. ...

Das Märchen von den 12 Monaten (2019)

Queen Klara not only rules over her own kingdom, she is also ruler of the Twelve Months and guides them through the year. The Prince of Frost, whose dark forces only strengthen in the leap year, try to prevent the progression of the year. ...

Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019)

Eight-year-old Jana desperately needs a heart donor. But the months pass and there is no suitable organ. Out of desperation, her father Micha - against the advice of the doctors and the will of his wife - turns to illegal organ traders. ...

Smile (2018)

The young and lonesome 18year old Mercedes visits the legendary techno festival "Heimat" for the first time in her life. She is longingly hoping for experiences of proximity, joy and intensity. Instead, she finds herself confronted with the abysses of this ...

Das Milan-Protokoll (2018)

Keiner schiebt uns weg (2018)

Gelsenkirchen, 1979: Three female employees of a photo lab discover by chance that they are paid much less than their male colleagues for their work. Lilli and her two friends want to take a stand against this, as the German constitution already states tha ...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2017)

Valentin, a destitute vagabond, seeks his fortune in the rat-infested city. It just so happens that Master Argus, the great wizard of the land and advisor to the queen, is in need of an apprentice. Valentin is sure that magic is just the thing for him. Alt ...

Emma nach Mitternacht - Frau Hölle (2016)

Emma Mayer works as a presenter for a radio station. In her show 'Emma after midnight', she listens to the concerns of callers. She discovers that Katharina Holl, who is about to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter during the construction of an indoor ...

Kaltfront (2016)

Jan meets Judith by accident and realizes that she is the woman who was supposed to have shot and killed his father, who worked as a security officer at the bank. ...

Buddha's Little Finger (2015)

A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev. ...

Polder (2015)

NEUROO-X, a German-Swiss-Chinese entertainment company group, stands for games that dissolve the boundary between reality and gaming). A new gadget, the myth-enshrouded RED BOOK, offers the ultimate gaming experience. The most secret longings of gamers are ...

Harter Brocken (2015)

A landslide in the Harz releases a corpse. Commissioner Frank Koops leads the investigation. Vanessa Riemann, tourist guide and marksman from St. Andreasberg, sees a lot of money in the backpack of the two hikers and attacks. On her breakneck escape throug ...

The Saviour (2014)

In the course of only one day, Paul's seemingly perfectly life falls completely appart. The film explores the condition of one person as a metaphor for the state of a whole generation in present day Berlin. How often are our life choices determined by soci ...

Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)

A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and ...

Finsterworld (2013)

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred. ...

Global Player - Wo wir sind isch vorne (2013)

A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization. ...

Abseitsfalle (2013)

The story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The company is owned by an American corporation. Until now it has been business as usu ...

Das schlafende Mädchen (2013)

Paranoic love story in German art milieu. ...

Dyslexie (2013)

Philipp Halbe can not read and write. He avoids life, works in a bar at night and does not engage in serious relationships. One day when his daughter Lily, whose mother died in a car accident, is about to die, he has to face the challenges of life and figh ...

Summer Window (2011)

Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her new love. Is ...

Wer rettet Dina Foxx? (2011)

Das blaue Licht (2010)

Jakob, a soldier mistreated by the king finds in a well a mysterious blue light which turns out to be a stroke of genius. He merely wants to teach the king a lesson by asking him to temporarily stealing whatever the king values most. He doesn't expect to ...

Carlos (2010)

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police. ...

Dutschke (2009)

The docu-drama paints a portrait of the man and revolutionary Rudi Dutschke as well as a picture of a generation with its utopias and disappointments. ...

66/67 - Fairplay war gestern (2009)

For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Brauns ...

Long Shadows (2008)

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widme ...

Finnischer Tango (2008)

Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really care. This changes when he and his bandmates steal a rocker band's tour bus and there is an accident. Alex' ...

Prager Botschaft (2007)

In September 1989, more and more GDR citizens fled to the West German embassy in Prague. Among them were Stefan and Bettina, who were spending their honeymoon in Czechoslovakia. When Stefan briefly returns to the GDR to fetch their young son, he also bring ...

Hochzeit um jeden Preis (2007)

It is supposed to be the happiest day of Franka's life, the day she marries the wealthy Alexander. But just then she discovers that she is pregnant—and that there is a possibility that the father is not her future husband, but her brief affair Niko. Unfo ...

Blindflug (2007)

Rainer has everything he needs to be happy: a great job, a gorgeous wife and a designer apartment. And tonight, he absolutely wants to have a baby, which is bound to be great. Except that his partner would have liked to talk about it first. Lotte is feelin ...

15 Minuten Wahrheit (2007)

Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned. ...

Das Schneckenhaus (2006)

Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura. ...

Allein gegen die Angst (2006)

Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt (2006)

The film is set in a country house in Germany on that summer day in 1918 when Germany became a republic and the former emperor left the country. Cecilie, the daughter of parents loyal to the emperor but impoverished, is to be married to the rich Alfred. Bu ...

Zeppelin! (2005)

In 1929, on the shores of Lake Constance, zeppelins are being built in the small town of Friedrichshafen. Fascinated by airships, Robert gets a job in the assembly shop thanks to Thea's brother Konrad, with whom he has fallen madly in love. The trio spent ...

Sieben Himmel (2005)

In a small hut on an island in the wintry lake landscape around Berlin lies a young man, Johann, wrapped up in a sleeping bag and blankets. ...

Measures to Better the World (2005)

A mockumentary in 8 episodes: new solutions and thinking models, which will be with us in the near future and make the world a little more livable. An "active health insurance", in which the insured directly take over everything including medical activitie ...

Mein Mörder (2005)

In the final days of the war, little Hans escapes certain death: he flees from a Nazi euthanasia center. Years later, Hans encounters the doctor who is responsible for destroying his life... ...

Let the Cat Out of the Bag (2005)

Waitress Doris meets a stranger on a train to Leipzig. This well-dressed thirty-something man decides to follow her, as they are drawn to each other, but neither seem prepared to admit to their loneliness. ...

Close (2004)

Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does ...

Weiße Stille (2004)

Fools (2003)

Man goes to live in Cologne to be closer to his grandmother, who is on the verge of death, gets a job, starts a new routine and witnesses an act of violence. ...

Detroit (2003)

Edzard is on his way from Berlin to Braunschweig to visit his family. During the trip the reason of his visit becomes clear, or doesn't it? During the trip he meets several people, most of them more than once. How this is possible becomes not quite clear u ...

Echte Männer? (2003)

Schluss mit lustig! (2001)

Not knowing anything about love, Felix has become used to a 3months relationship cycle after which he is left in grief and misery on a regular basis. It doesn't affect him at length, knowing that he has his flatmates Moritz, Jan and his sister Regina to re ...

Silent Storm (2001)

A silent storm unleashes itself in the soul of Anna, a seemingly quiet girl who lives in a city with a river running through it. Anna lets things wash over her, never joining in, submerged as she is in a lethargy that she'll have to do something about. ...

The Debris (2024)

For Fabian, it's all a game: finding straight men who are curious, taking them home, undressing them one piece at a time. For Martin, everything is a health hazard. Until he meets Fabian. ...