Gustav Peter Wöhler

Mordnacht (2024)

One for all, all for one! That's the motto in the tranquil village of Heiterstorf just outside Hamburg. In order to be accepted again in his hometown, which Gabriel Panski once arrogantly left behind, the family man runs the gauntlet. After a depressing mo ...

Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele, 2022 (2023)

Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be (2023)

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany's most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor's unique art and also provide an exciti ...

Die Geschichte der Menschheit - leicht gekürzt (2022)

In order to leave a lasting impression in space, Dr. Georg Friedle and his team of researchers include a condensed version of world history with the 1977 Voyager mission. However, their attempt to present themselves as an intelligent and empathic race back ...

Kippa (2021)

Cortex (2020)

Two men, two lives, a fateful encounter: Hagen suffers from irregular phases of sleep in which he cannot decide between dream and reality. When his frustrated wife cheats on him with the small-time criminal Niko a series of disturbing events is set in moti ...

Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele (2020)

The play about the rich man's death. ...

Love Eats Up Life (2019)

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical career, featuring past live perfomances by himself and cover versions of his songs by contemporary artists. ...

Größer als im Fernsehen (2019)

From a new beginning! Only after she has inherited the inheritance does Lisa realize that her deceased father's inn is heavily in debt. Her only way out: a holiday park, at whose investor she could sell the inn. But to build the park, he would also need th ...

1918 Aufstand der Matrosen (2018)

Angst (2017)

Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was that the former owner's brother would be allowed to continue living in the basement. ...

The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King (2017)

Mia and her partner Benny, along with Mia's sister, Alicia, will be in charge of solving some puzzling cases that are happening in their city Hamburg. Surrounded by ghosts and mysterious characters this group of friends, accompanied by other young people, ...

Lucky Loser (2017)

With Mike it's anything but round: flat away, job a one-way street, and to make matters worse, his little loser heart still beats for ex-wife Claudia. ...

Too Close (2017)

Caro lives happily with her 18-year-old son Ben. Her ex-husband Manni moved out a long time ago and has a new family. Ben is now at an age where he is very bored of the occasional sailing trips and visits to relatives with his mother. But there is a lot to ...

Winnetou - The Last Fight (2016)

In Part Three, entitled "The Last Fight," gangster Santer Jr. attempts to seize an oil well on Indian territory. To prevent this, Winnetou and Old Shatterhand must reconcile the warring Indian tribes so that they can take up the fight against the henchmen ...

Hans im Glück (2016)

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the sto ...

Winnetou - A New World (2016)

The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. ...

Nellys Abenteuer (2016)

13-year-old Nelly Klabund has absolutely no desire to spend her summer vacation in Romania. But her father Robert and mother Anne are adamant. When they arrive in Wallachia, where the plane landed unscheduled, Nelly learns from the strange tour guide Holzi ...

Allmen and the Dragonflies (2016)

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity ...

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 ...

Das Kloster bleibt im Dorf (2015)

While four nuns of a women's monastery in the Eifel begin their day, Bishop Rentschler decides to sell their monastery. The Prioress agrees, Novice Ruth is outraged. Bittner, who runs the village shop, is appalled by the news and worries about former Prior ...

Herman the German (2015)

After an accident Herman learns that the suffers from a very rare illness which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again. ...

Siebenschön (2014)

When she was a child, Ludmilla was the treasure of her parents, She worked, sewed, washed, and spun as much as seven ordinary people, and Ludmilla was "As Pretty as Seven." But on account of her pretty face, everybody stared at her; and, as she did not li ...

The 7th Dwarf (2014)

Seven clumsy dwarfs try to undo the spell they unwillingly unleashed and save the fairy tales world with the help of a tired dragon and a butterfly. The evil witch Dellamorta cursed princess Rose when she was a baby. Before she turns 18, Rose will get stun ...

Charlottes Welt - Geht nicht, gibt's nicht (2014)

Wir sind die Neuen (2014)

Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons. ...

Amour Fou (2014)

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness. ...

Scenario (2014)

The contents of a black briefcase lead us into a superficially well-ordered life in West Germany in 1970, in a city that can be seen as representative of the entire country. In this briefcase: the meticulous documentation of an affair between the small bus ...

BlitzBlank (2013)

Sams im Glück (2012)

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact that if you have a Sams in your home for 10 years, you slowly but steadily become a Sams yourself. And this is exactly what happens to Mr. Taschenbier. You can ...

Stankowskis Millions (2011)

In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work d ...

Familie macht glücklich (2011)

Es liegt mir auf der Zunge (2009)

On February 20, 1953, the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk broadcast the first cooking show of German post-war television. Clemens Carl Hahn became the TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod. When the "request in ten minutes to table" on the screens flickered, went for the pr ...

Dornröschen (2009)

German TV adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". ...

Soul Kitchen (2009)

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef. ...

Die Blücherbande (2009)

Werner Blücher is what you'd call a real thoroughbred crook: not a second seems to go by without the cunning rascal coming up with an idea for the next coup. It's just too bad that Blücher's criminal career hasn't been too successful so far - his lawyer ...

The Pearl Color (2009)

In the early 1930s, ten-year-old Alexander is determined to win his school's painting competition to impress his secret love, Lotte. By chance, he comes into possession of the glittering mother-of-pearl paint. However, its disappearance triggers a fierce b ...

Peaceful Times (2008)

After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Irene longs for the familiar GDR, fears her husband Dieter's supposed "second wives" and expects the Third World War every day. When the war finally breaks out ...

A Night at the Grand Hotel (2008)

Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet (2008)

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and their t ...

Ein starker Abgang (2008)

When the writer Heinz Kilian goes to the doctor because of stomach problems, the doctor urges him to be accompanied on his upcoming reading tour by nutritionist Vera Hartel. The two elderly gentlemen, who are driven by long-time publishing house employee H ...

Schade um das schöne Geld (2008)

In a town by the North Sea, Mirabel dreams of a better life while toiling in the fish factory. When the village syndicate wins the lottery, the hitting and stabbing begins. ...

Special Escort (2007)

The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policem ...

Der andere Junge (2007)

Evchen and Winnie Morell are very busy - with work and themselves. Just like the Wagners' neighbors and friends. None of them notice that the Morells' son is constantly being bullied and ripped off by the Wagners' big-headed boy. When Paul threatens the sh ...

Der Seehund von Sanderoog (2006)

Will Milla and her friends be able to save the seal "Knopfauge" and the seal station from the greedy Hajo Ehlers? Ironically, Ehler's son Henry, whom Milla knows from school and doesn't like, turns out to be a great help. ...

Unser Reigen (2006)

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006)

Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away from her. The journey takes the dwarves to a depressive, rhyming Pinocchio ...

Freundinnen fürs Leben (2006)

One last wish: In this tragicomedy, three women are asked to repeat their Interrail trip together after the death of their childhood friend - with her daughter. ...

Der beste Lehrer der Welt (2006)

Das Glück klopft an die Tür (2006)

At the reading of her late husband's will, Gila Maibach learns that there is a co-heiress to her beloved house! At first, Gila is convinced that the attractive Maja is her husband's mistress. However, the perky florist soon turns out to be Lothar's secret ...

Urlaub vom Leben (2006)

Rolf Köster has been working as a cashier in a small bank branch for years. Every day passes like the day before. He has a thirteen-year-old daughter who would rather write in a diary than speak and a six-year-old son who has to wear a bicycle helmet beca ...

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 ...

Gegen jedes Risiko (2005)

The Canterville Ghost (2005)

10 year-old Paul is an average but timid boy, subject to the typical fears of most kids his age. His overprotective mother Mona, believing Paul to be disturbed, sends him off to a psychotherapist. ...

Derrick - Die Pflicht ruft! (2004)

Inspector Stephan Derrick has made it: the crime rate in Munich has fallen to the 0% mark. His prestige is high, and he even has his own elevator with a body-friendly entrance. However, the elimination competitions for the "European Song Contest" force an ...

Ein seltsames Paar (2004)

My Parents (2003)

Marie has a problem. She has met the man of her dreams. But he desperately wants to get to know her parents, which wouldn't be so bad had Marie not told him her parents were still madly in love, cool, tolerant, and the contrary to petty bourgeois. But Mari ...

Das Wunder von Lengede (2003)

The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963. ...

Ein Albtraum von 3 1/2 Kilo (2002)

Jean is shocked: he and Kathrin are light-skinned, their baby looks dark. ...

Andreas Hofer (2002)

Tattoo (2002)

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered ...

Die Novizin (2002)

Invincible (2001)

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried. ...

Der Zimmerspringbrunnen (2001)

Unemployed Hinrich Lobek spends his days at home in Berlin and sees himself as a victim of reunification. His wife, who works as an architect at Potsdamer Platz, loses patience over time. After some time, he decides to go to the employment office and is of ...

Planet der Kannibalen (2001)

A television reporter searches for alien life forms and gets entangeled in a web of intrigue. ...

Ein Yeti zum Verlieben (2001)

The completely overwhelmed single father Tim sees his purpose in life in the search for the Yeti. When he actually finds him, the benevolent snowman helps him to find happiness in his private life too. ...

Run While You Can (2001)

"Why doesn't anyone tell me it's about a woman?" Now Novak is starting to feel uneasy! The young detective and three colleagues are on the payroll of a Hamburg demimonde. Now Novak and Brenner are supposed to look the other way when bringing in a key witne ...

Deutschlandspiel (2000)

Enlightenment Guaranteed (2000)

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves. ...

Gigantic (1999)

The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going ...

Long Hello and Short Goodbye (1999)

The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break. What Melody doesn't know is that Kahnitz and Ben are connected by a dark chapter in their past, and Melod ...

Das Gelbe vom Ei (1999)

Where our story takes place, only the chickens know what stress means. Otherwise, life in the countryside is quiet, so it's no wonder that the annual "stallion auction" is the highlight of cultural life—an event where the highest-bidding ladies can bid o ...

Ein Mann stürzt ab (1999)

Schlange auf dem Altar (1998)

Am I Beautiful? (1998)

Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives... ...

Frau zu sein bedarf es wenig (1998)

Schweinesand (1997)

A boring vacation turns into an adventure for Luc and his friends when Alexa is kidnapped. Bum Figaro is suspected, but the kids know him too well and set off in search of the real culprit. ...

Das Phantom von Bonn (1997)

Bunte Hunde (1995)

A brazen gang of car thieves is arrested. Their leader manages to free himself from prison with the help of a friend, is arrested again and sees his last chance in a spectacular hostage situation. ...

Anekdote aus dem letzten preußischen Kriege (1995)

Based on a text by Heinrich von Kleist. ...

Schicksalsspiel (1993)

A Romeo-and-Juliet-tale between the soccer-clubs of St. Pauli and Rostock. ...

Hamburger Gift (1992)

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of tons of vapor in Vietnam 'Agent Orange', and the involvement of the later Federal President, Richard Karl Weizsäcker, who was hiring manager when productio ...

Goodbye Stranger (1991)

Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitive and deported does she begin to learn about his true identity and his past. ...

The Story Teller (1989)

In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune wit ...