Christoph Bantzer

4 Kings (2015)

Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a psychiatric ward. The ...

Reported Missing (2012)

All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows the ...

Die Räuber (2009)

I'm The Father (2002)

Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for each other seems like a beacon on heavy seas. But career pressure, burned toast, and dirty laundry are ero ...

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? (2001)

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public pros ...

Funny Games (1997)

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. ...

Hamburger Gift (1992)

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of tons of vapor in Vietnam 'Agent Orange', and the involvement of the later Federal President, Richard Karl Weizsäcker, who was hiring manager when productio ...

Einer zahlt immer (1992)

On Christmas Eve, of all times, unemployed waiter Karl finds himself on the street. ...

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Aust ...

Julius Caesar (1988)

Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. ...

Blaubart (1984)

An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guil ...

Amphitryon (1982)

Der Richter (1981)

Heinrich Heine (1978)

Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1974)

Der Pfandleiher (1971)

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum (1971)

In the 23rd century, it is no longer necessary to work thanks to the latest technology. Convicts do the work that still needs to be done. The World Leisure Center uses a computer system to decide how people spend their free time. World citizen number DARK ...

Die Frau in Weiß (1971)

Die Münchner Räterepublik (1971)

Ende der Vorstellung 24 Uhr (1970)

We Two (1970)

After ten years, Hella Mayer and her boyhood friend Andreas meet again in Berlin on the street. Both know each other from common dance lessons times. ...

Rivalen (1969)

Der Lauf des Bösen (1969)

Elfer Gespräche (1969)

Asche des Sieges (1969)

The Glass Menagerie (1969)

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be. ...

Wind in den Zweigen des Sassafras (1968)

Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden (1968)

Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman, returns home late at night, exhausted from one of his sales trips, and tells his worried wife, Linda, that he is dead tired and almost fell asleep on the road. The couple is visited by their now-adult sons, 34 ...

Schmutzige Hände (1968)

Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen (1967)

Wo wir fröhlich gewesen sind (1966)

Die schwarze Hand (1966)

Irrungen - Wirrungen (1966)

Trauer muß Elektra tragen (1966)

A Winter's Tale (1965)

Der Drache (1965)

Tartuffe (1964)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1964)

Julius Caesar may have met his match in Cleopatra, the young queen of Egypt. ...

Der Arzt am Scheideweg (1963)

Stalingrad (1963)

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion. ...

Theorie und Praxis (1962)

Schau heimwärts, Engel (1961)