Gudrun Okras

Pik & Amadeus – Freunde wider Willen (2006)

13-year-old Pauline, called Pik, has lived with her grandmother Wischonka since her mother died. Pik has never met her father. Her grandmother runs a boarding kennel that is on the verge of insolvency because many customers have handed in their animals at ...

Willkommen in Lüsgraf (2006)

The attractive Moni works as a photo reporter at the local newspaper of her small hometown Lüsgraf. One day, when the bricks-and-mortar shakers, makers of electric shavers and the village's biggest employer, face bankruptcy, the male workforce occupies th ...

Twin Sisters (2002)

1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World W ...

Einspruch für die Liebe (2002)

The Munich business lawyer Marc is not happy: Instead of going to New York as planned, he has to travel to the province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at short notice to represent his sick grandfather as a pub owner for four weeks. The lawyer juggles mil ...

Vollweib sucht Halbtagsmann (2002)

Anna, a lonely mother who runs a party service, lives primarily for Tobi, her little son, whose father had abandoned them years ago. Thomas, a village police officer, befriends them, but various complications arise for various reasons. ...

Wenn zwei sich trauen (2002)

Der Club der grünen Witwen (2001)

Now or Never (2000)

Three elderly ladies, Carla, Lilli and Meta, who, after their hard earned holiday money is stolen by bank robbers, decide to steal from their local bank. Along the way their are romances, arguments and a few other unexpected surprises. ...

Verlorene Flügel (2000)

Annaluise & Anton (1999)

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pr ...

Bis zum Horizont und weiter (1999)

When Katja, Henning's girlfriend, is sentenced to prison, he kidnaps the judge to free Katja. ...

Letzte Chance für Harry (1998)

Two Berlin archetypes - Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann - convince in this touching big-city fairy tale in insistent roles as typical Berlin characters with everyday wit, temperament and improvisational talent. ...

Ein rettender Engel (1998)

Der stille Herr Genardy (1997)

Heiß und Kalt (1997)

Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns (1997)

Wenn der Präsident 2x klingelt (1997)

A master painter from Berlin is offered the opportunity to be one of the first to shake hands with the US President and his wife during their upcoming visit. He jumps at the chance, but first has to get his hopelessly dysfunctional family together. ...

Amerika (1996)

A drama about a east german village called 'Amerika'. ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Wechselspiel der Liebe (1995)

The twin sisters Flora and Rose were separated after giving birth. The mother left the father to go to America. At the age of 22, the two girls met again by accident in London. It is a shock for both of them, since they believed until then that they had no ...

Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde (1995)

Ach du Fröhliche (1995)

Durst nach Rache (1995)

Deadly Web (1994)

Zwei wie Paul und Caroline (1993)

Fatherland (1992)

It is shortly after the fall of the Wall and Kadir is released from an East Berlin psychiatric clinic. Resolved to begin life over again in Germany, he soon has to accept that there is no longer a place for him. ...

Taxi nach Rathenow (1991)

A comedy directed by Thomas Engel ...

Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein (1991)

Despite the mother goat's warning, the little goats fall for the wolf's tricks, open the door and all but one are eaten. The mother finds her last child, takes heart and approaches the sleeping wolf. She frees her children from its belly. The beast gets a ...

The Light of Love (1991)

804, Thuringia. An orphan boy, called Bengel, lives in a monastery and is teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurses a black rider, who is shunned by everyone and is said to have the plague, back to health. The rider tells him about the missing ...

Der letzte Winter (1991)

Heimsuchung (1990)

The film is set in 1989/1990 at a time when the "socialist" ideology underwent another major revolutionary collapse and the supposedly only progressive German "socialist", but walled-in GDR, joined the free West German society of the Federal Republic of Ge ...

Rückwärts laufen kann ich auch (1990)

Seven-year-old Kati is glad that despite her spastic disability she is allowed to attend a normal school. Her parents made that possible. In her first year there, she is supposed to prove that she can get along at the school and she does her utmost to keep ...

Coming Out (1989)

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is. ...

Iron Hans (1988)

In a king's kingdom there is a forest so dangerous that every man who goes into it is never heard from again. ...

Interrogating the Witnesses (1987)

A teenager is found murdered, and the examining doctor recognizes her son's knife. The film works its way back to reveal how this situation came about; a rare treatment of the taboo subject of youth criminality in Socialist society. ...

So Many Dreams (1986)

Karin, a well-known and loved midwife in her early forties, receives a high-order decoration from the state. While still overwhelmed with happiness about this honor, she is faced with a difficult decision when she encounters a young women who claims to be ...

Where Others Keep Silent (1984)

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new legislative session because at seventy-five, she is the oldest representative in the German Reichstag. Although she i ...

Die Geschichte vom Kalif Storch (1984)

Caliph Harun al-Rashid was turned into a stork by a power-greedy rival. Only with the help of his wise vizier and a beautiful princess is he able to escape the spell. Based on a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff. ...

The Discovery (1984)

A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also seeking something new. Despite their differences, the two animals become friends and start their adventure t ...