Christoph Franken

Flucht aus Lissabon (2025)

After a failed Interpol operation, Tom Fährmann, human rights activist and escape agent, is tasked with finding Sofia Moreno, a whistleblower who has disappeared in Lisbon, and bringing her to a safe house on the Portuguese coast. When Fährmann realizes ...

Goebbels and the Führer (2024)

As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him. ...

Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele (2020)

The play about the rich man's death. ...

Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod (2018)

A tricky out-of-area mission for Peter Lohmeyer alias Chief Inspector Jan Fabel in his fourth case: in the hustle and bustle of Cologne Carnival, of all things, the introverted hamburger has to chase a serial killer and stop a colleague from going it alone ...

Berlin Syndrome (2017)

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave. ...

The Tragedy of a Simple Man (2013)

Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically. He has no choice. It's his living. With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in subway tunnels, he just about makes ends meet. Coming home to his wife Marie and ...

Fernes Land (2011)

The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey ...

Warchild (2006)

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family. ...

Brennendes Herz (2006)

Vollgas - Gebremst wird später (2005)

Passionate driver Ben takes a high‐risk role as personal chauffeur to a Düsseldorf industrialist. On his first day, he's lured into a deadly trap: the boss's wife Kristina is strapped into a car rigged by a deranged kidnapper, "Mr. Müller," with sensor ...

Off Beat (2004)

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams. ...