Dieter Mann

Die letzten Millionen (2014)

In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much money in his old days? Lebemann Conrad wants to hit the spot again, while the gay couple Otto and Jakob are ful ...

Familie Windscheidt - Der ganz normale Wahnsinn (2012)

After suffering from burnout syndrome and a hospital stay, an architect returns to his family. His wife and the children from their marriage as well as their respective previous marriages are largely considerate, but "normal" life takes its toll: While his ...

Nachtwächter (2012)

Vergiss Dein Ende (2011)

Hannelore (65) has been caring for her husband Klaus (69), who has dementia, for four years. She is now at the end of her tether. When her neighbour Günther (65) unexpectedly goes away on a trip, Hannelore simply follows him—leaving her husband alone at ...

Where to with Dad? (2010)

Their mother has died. Siblings Susanne and Thomas are shocked. And overwhelmed. Little by little, it dawns on them that their grumpy father has long been unable to move without help. Full of remorse, Susanne and Thomas search for a solution that is afford ...

13 Semester (2009)

When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus living begin to grind him down. Half way through his course he finds himself at a crossroads with both his relat ...

A Houseboat to Fall in Love (2009)

Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother. ...

Mitte 30 (2008)

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his partner Markus, he is also sued by his widow Sandra. Allegedly, Gerrit owes Markus a lot of money. In reality, however, it was the other way around and his s ...

Vaterherz (2007)

Everything seems to be going according to plan for graduate engineer Oliver Berger. He has only just landed a lucrative contract for his employer when he is already entrusted with the next major project. He willingly puts up with constant trips abroad and ...

Die Blindgänger (2004)

Marie is a 13 year old girl and blind. When she meets Herbert something wonderful begins. ...

Downfall (2004)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve ...

Judith Kemp (2004)

Judith Kemp has become a lone fighter since the death of her husband. As a single mother of two children and an aspiring star lawyer in a large corporate law firm, Judith manages her job and family. Inevitably, someone often falls by the wayside: their chi ...

Die Stunde der Offiziere (2004)

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie. ...

Dornröschens leiser Tod (2004)

Die Geisel (2003)

A prisoner in JVA Weißenburg takes a staff member hostage, prompting Prison Director Ella Jansen to enter the cell in exchange, relying on negotiation. When a special unit's imminent arrival drives the inmate to rage and sexual violence, Jansen is rescued ...

Der Aufstand (2003)

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet ...

Das Glück ihres Lebens (2003)

The divorced florist Maria falls in love with the fated Holger, whose little son was killed two years ago in an accident with a driver's escape. Maria also has a son: the now-grown Niklas, a very talented pianist who has a great career in the eyes of his p ...

Die geheime Inquisition (2002)

Traumfrau mit Verspätung (2001)

Goebbels und Geduldig (2001)

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to him that his rival Heinrich Himmler is the mastermind and that he has also hidden a double of the propagand ...

Der Club der grünen Witwen (2001)

Planet B - C.I.Angel (2001)

Der Preis der Schönheit (2000)

Der Elefant in meinem Bett (1999)

Verratene Freundschaft - Ein Mann wird zur Gefahr (1999)

Der blonde Affe (1999)

The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her daughter Gabrielle. The autopsy of the body reveals that her death was caused by violence. A witness testifies ...

Nur ein toter Mann ist ein guter Mann (1999)

After the sudden accidental death of her husband, Ursula blossoms, takes over the business of the deceased and goes out again. ...

Gnadenlos 2 - Ausgeliefert und mißbraucht (1999)

Beauty contest in a large Berlin disco: the prize is a promotional tour through various Arab countries, during which they are to advertise for the Beluga discotheque and real estate group in expensive hotels by luxury pools. ...

And Suddenly Everything Was Different (1997)

Der Prinzgemahl (1997)

Free Fall (1997)

Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drives on and enlists the help of his friend Werner for a conclusive alibi. However, before they can arrange the alibi, the police are already at the door. Soon ...

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1997)

Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the killer. When all the people suspect a roamer to be the killer he gets lynched and everybody thinks that the cri ...

Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia (1996)

In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She had been researching the trafficking milieu for her newspaper. Tresko is ...

Alles nur Tarnung (1996)

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with Daddy, Marlies is housed just one floor up in the cell of the ageing prostitute Jutta. With Christmas jus ...

Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen (1996)

A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted list, but so far nothing has been proven against him. This changes when a young female detective becomes involv ...

Der rote Tod (1996)

Der Mörder und die Hure (1996)

Wer Kollegen hat, braucht keine Feinde (1995)

The employees in the software department allegedly lack "creative power". At least that's what high-flyer Dr. Heller suspects. The new head of the media company wants to make a name for himself. This includes ignoring specialist Georg Meier's software and ...

The Promise (1995)

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad ...

Wozu denn Eltern? (1995)

Vera and Stefan Rabe independently have the idea to snuggle away from their six kids between 8 and 17 to get some work done before Christmas. Both don't tell each other about their plans, so the kids suddenly lack both of their parents and without supervis ...

Der Biberpelz (1994)

Maus und Katz (1993)

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Haus Herzenstod (1992)

Wunderjahre (1992)

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 ...

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 ...

Diktatur des Gewissens (1990)

Nathan der Weise (1990)

Two Strange Characters (1989)

The two computer specialists Frank and Kamminke are not the type of citizens the party likes. Thus they are sent to the landscape where they still find enough stuff to do: They repair the software of a western type factory which is currently not working. ...

Narrenweisheit (1989)

Lohengrin popelt (1988)

Documentary about Curt Goetz. ...

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 ...

Das Pflugwesen - es entwickelt sich (1987)

Film about the training and plowing championships of the socialist countries in Hungary. The title alludes to the popular record "Lyrik, Jazz & Prosa", which was later discontinued and on which Manfred Krug reads the Soschtschenko satire "Die Kuh im Propel ...

Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... (1987)

Fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke is a Hitler Youth fanatic who is devastated to learn a hidden truth about his respected father who was a German officer in WWII: He was Jewish. Pushed out of his community after the discovery, young Heinz falls into a tailspi ...

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 ...

Drost (1986)

After 35 years of military service, Officer Jürgen Drost takes on the job of mayor in the small village where he lived with his mother after World War II. The transition to civilian life comes as more of a shock than he expected, causing him to rethink ma ...

Paulines zweites Leben (1984)

Pauline Oswald is 50 years old and has three daughters with her husband Robert. Now, after almost 30 years of marriage, they are about to divorce. This marks the start of a completely new life for Pauline. Until now, she has only worked as a mother and hou ...

Moritz in der Litfaßsäule (1983)

No one has any time for Moritz. And at school, things are not exactly the greatest either. Moritz runs away and moves into the inside of an advertising pillar. A speaking cat, a circus girl and a street sweeper become his new friends. Gradually, they help ...

Melanie van der Straaten (1982)

Melanie van der Straaten has the courage to separate from her wealthy, unloved husband and settle down with a new partner, defying all societal restrictions, in humble living circumstances. When her first husband blackmails her after the divorce with the c ...

Steckbrieflich gesucht (1982)

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (1981)

Johann Paul Schroth is a 20-year-old barber's apprentice who breaks out of the barber-surgeon's trade. Schroth wants to realize his dream, which is to put aside the beard knife and use the scalpel in such a way that people are healed and not tortured... ...

Levin's Mill (1980)

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined an ...

Ja, so ein Mann bin ich! (1980)

It all begins with a crazy idea. Peter Schönfeld, a good husband whose excess of virtue already seems suspicious, is to be subjected to a fidelity test. Rosemarie, Peter's wife Regina's best friend, wants to dissuade the straw widower from the path of vir ...

Backhouse Bliss (1980)

Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting affair with his intern, Miss Broder, he leaves his loveless marriage and moves in with his lover. Under pressure from Miss Broder's mother, Karl once again pr ...

Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)

The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell, successful and envied, sets in motion an expensive rescue operation. He manages to avert a catastrophe and bring ...

Das Versteck (1978)

One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks Wanda to hide him from the police, who are apparently looking for him ...

Die Urlauber (1978)

I Want to See You (1978)

Fritz Schmenkel, a farm worker and soldier in the fascist Wehrmacht, deserts in Belarus in 1941. He wants to survive, makes his way to Russian farmers and comes into contact with Soviet partisans who, after long interrogations by the German teacher and cur ...

Brandstellen (1978)

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin Kunze is still a member of this scene. Bruno, who still has left-wing beliefs, becomes her attorney. But when K ...

Termin Spirale Eins (1977)

Documentary short about the construction of the Markersbach Pumped Storage Power Plant in East Germany. ...

The Sorrows of Young Werther (1976)

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventual ...

Auf der Suche nach Gatt (1976)

Die eigene Haut (1975)

Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of sitting around lazily, he wants to experience something during this time before the serious side of life begins ...

Lotte in Weimar (1975)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and which initiated the whole German romantic movement. The book's story tells of young love and suicide. In this ...

Die unheilige Sophia (1975)

The Naked Man on the Sports Field (1974)

Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work. ...

Living With Uwe (1974)

Uwe Polzin, a highly talented biologist publicly stands the defence of his doctorate and this crucial day prompts him to look back on his life so far. These reminiscences are not altogether positive and he and his family still face almost unsolvable proble ...

Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita (1973)

She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great success. She is said to have had many affairs and, so it is said, the death of a certain Sawallish. The evil after ...

Der kleine Kommandeur (1973)

Florian is the son an army general and very proud of him. When his father has to attend the annual 1st of May demonstration, Florian grabs his teddy bear and tries to follow his father. ...

Die Prüfung (1972)

The final exam of sixteen and seventeen year olds at the end of the 10th grade. The individual in the minutes in which he is supposed to show what he can do and who he is. A last class party before the community ends and one goes apart. ...

Tscheljuskin (1970)

In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon there is an accident in the ice and the team can save themselves on an ice floe. Two months, the over one hundred people have to persevere there until resc ...

Folge einem Stern (1970)

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a teacher training college, he is faced with the task of preparing young people for life. ...

Auf der Oder (1970)

Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers from both countries with experienced skippers join forces to make the international waterway between Frank ...

On the Way to Lenin (1970)

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way t ...

The Farmer's Clever Daughter (1969)

A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well. When the king throw ...

Die entführte Braut (1968)

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa (1968)

Russian soldier Grisha escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp in the spring of 1917. He is caught and is to be shot as a spy. This decision is controversial. The dispute continues. Grisha is executed on the orders of the army high command. ...

I Was Nineteen (1968)

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him ...

Die Räuber (1967)

Germany in the 18th century. Two brothers rebel against the narrow confines of the small state and feudal despotism. However, Franz and Karl Moor have very different motives: Franz is interested in satisfying his personal needs, power and wealth, while Kar ...

Stories of That Night (1967)

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and e ...

Oma und die bösen Buben (1967)

Pranksters Moritz Bolle and Max Sturbier plague their neighbors with cruel tricks - especially young record‐seller Brigitte, whom Moritz woos by posing as a Mozart‐loving engineer. When sharp‐witted Grandma Heimdall uncovers his lies, she tailors him ...

Columbus 64 (1966)

Georg Brecher, journalist and casual writer, leads a report into the uranium mining of bismuth. Under the impression of hard work underground and the encounter with the mates, Brecher rethinks his previous life. Ulrich Thein's film was created in the conte ...

Berlin Around the Corner (1966)

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials... not to mention their love of leather jackets and motorbikes. Olaf and Horst begin to be t ...

Der Andere neben dir (1964)

Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A trip to a congress in Prague and an encounter with the wife of his Czech colleague force the German chief sur ...