Claudia Michelsen

Highly Explosive (2025)

In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an interpersonal state of emergency. ...

9-Month Contract (2025)

As an orphan, for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she is raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate to offer her daughter the life she never had. Nine months and 14,000 USD. Is it that simple and priceless? ...

In a Land That No Longer Exists (2022)

It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads her to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief ...

Du sollst hören (2022)

Is there a risk to a child's welfare if a girl is denied the opportunity to learn to hear? Or should parents be free to decide which life is best for their child? A difficult case - even for an experienced judge like Jolanda Helbig. ...

Auf dem Grund (2022)

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli's mother, Anne's sister Miriam, who fears Anne's strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother's 65th birthday, old secr ...

Immer der Nase nach (2021)

Sorted out - and at almost 50! Both professionally and privately, window dresser Tanja feels like she's been left behind. But she bravely sticks her chin out. Of course she can still keep up, and after one order after another falls through, Tanja is eager ...

Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora (2020)

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subje ...

Erzähle deine Geschichte - Die DDR in 30 Begriffen (2020)

Das Wunder von Nairobi - Noten der Hoffnung (2019)

Totgeschwiegen (2019)

Blame Game (2019)

Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in Zahiristan. A few days later, there's a terrorist attack on a restaurant – the video claiming re ...

Angst in meinem Kopf (2018)

Sonja Brunner works as a prison officer in a prison. She has been earning money for the family for years, providing a living for her stepdaughter Iris and her husband Jens. Jens is a freelance writer and hopes to finally land a publishing deal with his new ...

Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)

Following the phenomenal success of "The Threepenny Opera", the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the "Threepenny Film" is radical, uncompromising, political, an ...

Isy Way Out (2018)

16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three ...

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten (2017)

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The kil ...

1917 - Der wahre Oktober (2017)

Television version of 2017 documentary film. ...

1917: The Real October (2017)

St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by ...

100 Years of the UFA (2017)

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German fil ...

Götter in Weiß (2017)

Anna is a surgeon and, like her husband Gunnar, works at the hospital in a small town in the Mecklenburg Lake District. They have built a good life here with their son. Anna is torn out of her usual routine when a child suddenly suffers an allergic shock a ...

Four Against the Bank (2016)

After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back. ...

The Spanish Golden Age (2016)

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro. ...

Shed My Skin (2016)

The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17, and the consequences for him and his family, but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious. ...

Im Zweifel (2016)

For Pastor Judith Ehrmann, her job as an emergency counselor is more than just part of her job: giving people assistance is a vocation for them. But when a classmate of her son dies in a car accident, that's unusual. Judith begins to doubt: herself, her jo ...

In der Falle (2015)

Simone Carstensen-Kleebach actually has everything one could wish for in life: a husband who supports her and with whom she has been married for almost 20 years, a daughter and great career success. But the pressure to be perfect in all these roles lends S ...

Head Full of Honey (2014)

Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart. ...

Coconut the Dragon (2014)

Coconut and his friend Oscar are outsiders on Dragon Island. Coconut is supposed to be a flying dragon but he can't fly and Oscar, a carnivore by nature, is a vegetarian bychoice. Together with the porcupine Matilda they go on fabulous adventures and meet ...

Die Legende der Maske (2014)

Archaeologist Katja Bennecke is in charge of an excavation site at the foot of a Mayan pyramid on the Mexican headland of Yucatán. By chance, she discovers the mask of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish warrior described in legends who rose to become supreme gen ...

Seitensprung (2014)

An understanding husband, two cute daughters and a mother who takes care of the household in her very own way: things couldn't be better for marketing specialist Fiona - actually. By chance, the successful manager finds out who her neighbor, the attractive ...

Männertreu (2014)

Georg Sahl, one of the last major newspaper publishers with liberal-conservative quality standards, is offered the position of Federal President by the Mayor of Frankfurt. His wife Franziska, a successful divorce lawyer, is initially not very happy about t ...

Grenzgang (2013)

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this ...

Scale 6 (2013)

After a landslide in the Axenstrasse, geologist Mara Graf and her boyfriend, seismologist Gian Wyss, are investigating for the Seismological Service of the University of Technology in Switzerland. For Gian this is a good opportunity to spend some weeks of ...

Sprinter - Haltlos in die Nacht (2012)

Henk, a good family man from Wolfsburg, accidentally gets on an ICE Sprinter in Berlin that is going non-stop to Frankfurt. On the train he meets Eva, a woman who is on a dangerous mission. She doesn't need anyone near her. But Henk sticks to her and lives ...

Und dennoch lieben wir (2011)

Shortly before her 40th birthday, the successful surgeon Anne May is plagued by self-doubt: Actually, she would have to be satisfied, since she has long been married to her childhood sweetheart Peter and has built up a working family life with him. Neverth ...

The Chinese Man (2011)

A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin ...

The Silence (2010)

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past. ...

Mensch Kotschie (2010)

A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency word ...

Sieben Tage (2009)

Pope Joan (2009)

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks. ...

Der Mann auf der Brücke (2009)

Mordgeständnis (2008)

12 heißt: Ich liebe Dich (2008)

Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and the dissident sit face to face almost daily, and the unbelievable happens: they fall in love with each other. In ...

Der Kronzeuge (2007)

Edeltraud Rabitzer's movie deals with a man, whose life is completely turned upside down due to a mysterious woman. Achim Weber, a happy husband and father, and his partner Sven get to know Denise, an attractive young woman, during a business trip. After t ...

Der Mustervater 2 - Opa allein zu Haus (2007)

Wonderful prospects for Stefan Herrlich: the father of three is celebrating his promotion to managing director. Just then he learns from his wife Ines that his mother has died. Now Stefan has to take care of his father, the retired Latin teacher and amateu ...

Paula's Secret (2007)

"Everyone has dreams, and dreaming is never stupid." So says Paula, a girl whose dreams are as big as her heart. For a long time, Paula has kept a diary, and written inside are her biggest secrets. When her diary is stolen by a pair of child thieves, she i ...

Fay Grim (2007)

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe- ...

The Hunt for Troy (2007)

True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the ruins of the mythical ancient city of Troy in Turkey in 1868. ...

42plus (2007)

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into pieces and ...

Die Entführung (2007)

On his birthday, Tobias goes shopping to the city with his mother. While waiting in the car for her to remove money from an ATM, he disappears without a trace. His mother, distraught, desperately seeks him. When she returns home, a phone call confirms her ...

Ein Fall für den Fuchs - Das Spiel ist aus (2006)

Auf ewig und einen Tag (2006)

Maria an Callas (2006)

After the death of his sick wife, a man discovers that she had an e-mail friend he did not know. ...

The Wild Soccer Bunch 3 (2006)

After Leon left his team in the historic 25-1 defeat against the national team, Die wilden Kerle broke up. Only the little Nerv still believes in his old heroes and tries to bring the grown-up guys back together with the help of his dreaded side puller. Le ...

Sackratten (2006)

Hölle im Kopf (2005)

Before the Fall (2004)

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters haz ...

Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004)

Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone who gets too close will succumb to an insidious murder. The marriage swindler's preferred victims are men w ...

Der Mustervater - Allein unter Kindern (2004)

Betty - Schön wie der Tod (2003)

A young woman devotedly runs her father-in-law's construction company, but her husband's reckless lifestyle threatens the company's very existence. Together with the company's authorized signatory, she plans the perfect murder, which seems to be going acco ...

Der Anwalt und sein Gast (2003)

Gefährliche Nähe und Du ahnst nichts (2002)

An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research. ...

Todesstrafe - Ein Deutscher hinter Gittern (2001)

The Tunnel (2001)

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel. ...

Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder (2001)

In an idyllic town, one bloody crime joins the next: six women fall victim to a ruthless murderer. The alleged perpetrator was arrested at the scene right next to the last victim, but he managed to escape. Policewoman Leah Sanders takes up the persecution. ...

Falling Rocks (2000)

6 Friends, 1 Killer, No Mercy! Slow moving thriller that builds up towards a nerve wrecking end. ...

Three Chinamen with a Double Bass (2000)

After a night of partying, Paul finds the body of his girlfriend in their shared apartment. Even his best friend Max believes he killed her in a drunken stupor. Nevertheless, he takes action to make the corpus delicti disappear - with a bone saw and a grai ...

Der Todeszug (1999)

Nicht ohne meine Eltern (1999)

Survivor (1999)

An Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that begin to take place. ...

Todesengel (1999)

A 15-year-old girl goes into the woods with some friends at night. She is raped by three men. Those who witnessed the crime did nothing and are not keen to testify. The girls father wants justice or revenge. ...

The Deep End (1997)

Greenhorn (1997)

A journalist, who actually wanted to marry his fiancée during his vacation in the USA, is unexpectedly sent to New Mexico for a travel report. There he becomes involved in a diamond heist and meets a cunning crook who initially makes his life difficult. ...

Hollister (1997)

The Berlin star architect Mark Hollister owns a thriving company, but at the moment everything is going wrong. Can Hollister change his luck? ...

Zwei vom gleichen Schlag (1996)

Sünde einer Nacht (1996)

At a garden party at her future in-laws' house, Lena has a fling with waiter Roger. While she quickly forgets the wild one-night stand, Roger believes he has found the woman of his life. Blinded by love, he does everything he can to win Lena over... ...

Burning Heart (1995)

Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India. ...

Das geborgte Nest (1995)

Wilder Westerwald (1995)

Mörderische Zwillinge (1995)

Twin sisters go their separate ways when a man dies while making love and one of them falls in love with an architect. The orphaned twin reacts with jealousy and makes a pass at the sister's husband: a love affair with fatal consequences that is disguised ...

Tödliche Besessenheit (1994)

When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But suddenly a young man enters her life and things take a dramatic turn. ...

Jenseits der Brandung (1994)

Das schafft die nie (1994)

A borderline psychotic young man named Rahul is dangerously obsessed with college student Kiran. When Rahul realizes she's engaged to a naval officer, he vows to stop the wedding and possess her once and for all. ...

Das Schicksal der Lilian H. (1993)

A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ... ...

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1993)

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west. ...

Alkestis (1993)

Lenz (1992)

Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau? (1991)

Berlin painter Banuscher has been rather moderately successful so far. He has only been able to keep his head above water thanks to the financial support of his girlfriend Francis. She then organizes his first exhibition, which is finally a success. Instea ...

Das hölzerne Schloss (1991)

Pause für Wanzka (1990)

Shortly before his retirement, Gustav Wanzka wants to return to his beloved profession as a teacher after years of working as a district school inspector. As soon as he arrives at the station, he meets the boy Norbert Kniep, his future pupil, who clearly s ...

Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes (1989)

1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the 'Allstedt Council'. On the one hand, he is to open people's minds and hearts to more freedom, and on the other, he is to serve as an ally against the count. ...

The Ascent of Chimborazo (1989)

The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802. ...