Frieder Venus

Talking About the Weather (2022)

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has ...

Everybody Wants To Be Loved (2022)

Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone's needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, so ...

Der verlorene Kaiser (2020)

Papa auf Wolke 7 (2020)

Klemens Kurz is a family man, a successful meteorologist - and autistic. He has Asperger's Syndrome, which means he takes everything literally, is a logic genius and has a special relationship with his emotions. When he was offered an attractive job for a ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Morgens stürmisch, abends Liebe (2019)

We Are Half The World (2018)

They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they would not be deterred. For decades ten thousands of women in Germany, Great Britain, in France, the U.S. and many other countries fought for their right to ...

Ihr seid natürlich eingeladen (2018)

Krügers Odyssee (2018)

Berlin pensioner Paul Krüger looks forward to lead his fatherless-raised pregnant granddaughter Annie to the altar, but Turkish groom Denis's sugar uncle insists due to Anatolian family honor tradition on the presence of her biological father Harald, whom ...

Allmen and the Pink Diamond (2017)

After his successful first "case", Allmen decides to make finding lost art objects his profession and thus avoid financial misery in the future. ...

Schubert in Love (2016)

Olaf tries to make his dreams reality and thereby always gets into trouble with his surroundings. He meets his biggest obstacle yet when his father pressures him into having a child. Finding a woman becomes difficult when Olaf realizes that they have somet ...

Deutschfieber (1992)

The world was turned upside down on November 9, 1989. Not only does the Berlin Wall fall, but the German-German border in the Werra Valley is also rolled down... ...

Hüpf, Häschen, hüpf (1991)

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Stasi agents settle scores with former East German citizens who had resisted the regime. ...

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 ...

Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund (1987)

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD); Judith, a Jewish woman; and a pastor who wants to save an Ern ...