Dieter Schaad

Mittagsstunde (2022)

When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't want to part with his pub, the Dorfkrug, 47-year-old Ingwer Feddersen sees the time has come to return to his home village Brinkebüll. The village tavern isn ...

Max und die wilde 7 (2020)

Nine-year-old Max moves to Geroldseck Castle, together with his mother, who takes up a position as a geriatric nurse there. Apparently a shrewd thief is up to mischief here. His mother is suspected, she is threatened with dismissal. Therefore, together wit ...

Red Bracelets: The Beginning (2019)

In this prequel to the TV series, the individual fates of the members of the later "Red Bracelets" and how they came together are told. ...

The Origin of Violence (2016)

A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald. ...

The General Case (2016)

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes ...

Tiefe Wunden (2015)

Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion (2012)

Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves into his grand-uncles somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: Four decades ago, his grand-cousin Cecilia, at the same age as he is now, lost her l ...

Niemand ist eine Insel (2011)

Silvia's career as an actress goes into decline after a few unfortunate statements recorded with a microphone hidden in his dressing room. On the other hand, we detected a serious disease to her daughter. ...

Sehnsucht nach Rimini (2007)

After surviving a heart attack, bus company owner Marianne Toeplitz should actually be more concerned about her health than her ailing business. But she only does this after an argument with her daughter Susanne, who wants to merge with the competition. Ag ...

Der Tag der Befreiung (2003)

Eine Liebe auf Mallorca 3 (2001)

Verzweiflung (2000)

Ulrike, released from prison, initially isolates herself due to guilt over her daughter's death. She meets Sigs, and they develop a relationship with some love, but fear of physical contact persists. Ulrike leaves Sigs when she can no longer hide her past. ...

Eine Liebe auf Mallorca 2 (2000)

A Love in Mallorca (1999)

Physician Niklas Sanders's girlfriend Anna deserts him unexpectedly during a holiday on Mallorca. She's still not quite over her separation from Rolf. Niklas is visited by his daughter Susan, who planned a cycling tour with good friend Robby, but he prefer ...

Liebe mich bis in den Tod (1998)

Doctor Lydia shares a scalpel and a bed with the head of a clinic in Bochum. Until one night the brash steelworker and karate fighter Uwe turns up in the emergency room. She stitches up his wound without anesthetic. A real guy, Uwe, and not such an academi ...

The Denunciation (1993)

By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a g ...

Ami Go Home oder Der Fragebogen (1985)

Addressee Unknown (1983)

A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man. ...

All in Order (1980)

Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom), refusing to say very much to anyone. His wife (Dorothea Moritz ) is all the more upset at his behavior because on ...

Rückfälle (1977)

After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he soon realizes that society cannot cope with his illness: His relationship with his wife Eva is on its last ...

Stellenweise Glatteis (1975)

Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company's clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union's hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realiz ...

Die Stadt im Tal (1975)

Fuses (1974)

Zündschnüre explores the emotional and psychological aftermath of war. The story follows two former soldiers who return home after serving in a brutal conflict. They find themselves struggling to reintegrate into civilian life, grappling with trauma, gui ...

Brandstifter (1969)

Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can change the world with words alone, she plans a militant action: as a protest against the Vietnam War, she pl ...