Franz Xaver Gernstl

Checker Tobi - Abenteuer Türkei (2024)

Checker Tobi - Abenteuer Italien (2024)

Gernstls Reisen - Auf der Suche nach Irgendwas (2023)

Three friends, one bus, hundreds of stories: Franz Gernstl and his companions HP Fischer and Stefan Ravasz have been traveling the world since 1983, always in search of - well, what is it? ...

24h Bayern - Ein Tag Heimat (2017)

Lawinen der Erinnerung (2012)

The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz's autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Dominik Gr ...

How to Cook Your Life (2007)

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life. ...

Gernstls Reisen - Auf der Suche nach dem Glück (2006)

Since 1983, author and director Franz X. Gernstl has been traveling across Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland in a VW bus. Together with his friends, cameraman Hans Peter Fischer and sound engineer Stefan Ravasz, Gernstl is always on the lookout ...

The Fisherman and His Wife (2005)

Otto and Leo are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish, for collectors in their native land. While on a business trip to Japan, Otto and Leo meet Ida, a German tourist who is stud ...

Familienreise (2004)

Director Michael Gutmann comes to term with his own family's past by accompanying his mother to the Polish village of Klodzko where she grew up. ...

Last Minute Jamaika (2003)

Two interns from a Munich film company fly to the Caribbean for a vacation - not out of mutual sympathy, but because they hope to seduce their boss in intimate togetherness. The trip ends in a fiasco, but also in great love. ...

Vote for Henryk! (2003)

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark. ...

Naked (2002)

The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to time, they gather to talk about everything. One time, they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansi ...

Ein Kriegsende (1984)

In the last days of WW2, the German minesweeper MX12 is on its way into the enemy's zone to pick up wounded soldiers. When a radio message proclaims the end of war, the crew demands to break off the risky mission. Only the captain wants to continue. ...

Unter Männern (1980)

The butcher Klumbach has recently moved to the city. The pub on the corner becomes his regular haunt. He has already settled in a little when a new regular appears. Brestenzki, a tout and would-be pimp, takes Klumbach for a spin and introduces him to an "a ...

Max und Sandy (1978)

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a similar situation in their private lives. ...

Gernstls Reisen - Auf der Suche nach Irgendwas (2023)

Three friends, one bus, hundreds of stories: Franz Gernstl and his companions HP Fischer and Stefan Ravasz have been traveling the world since 1983, always in search of - well, what is it? ...

Der Klassenfeind (2012)

Achim, a east German debt collector fights against his class enemy from the time in the late eighties, when he was still a little boy in school. ...

Gernstls Reisen - Auf der Suche nach dem Glück (2006)

Since 1983, author and director Franz X. Gernstl has been traveling across Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland in a VW bus. Together with his friends, cameraman Hans Peter Fischer and sound engineer Stefan Ravasz, Gernstl is always on the lookout ...