Hans Peter Hallwachs

The Eremites (2017)

Albert grew up on an isolated mountain farm in the middle of nowhere in the Alps. Although he's already in his 30s, his omnipresent mother Marianne still pulls the strings in his life. Not intentionally and only because of his mother's pressure, Albert wen ...

Das goldene Ufer (2015)

Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit puts her in great danger. Is Walther going to join her on this dangerous path? ...

Zwischen den Zeiten (2014)

On a class trip to the GDR in 1986, Annette flirted with the East German Michael. Today she is working on reconstructing shredded Stasi files and comes across a photo of him. Annette finds Michael and their love flares up again. Not just out of jealousy, A ...

Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2013)

Jedermann (2013)

Since 1920, "Jedermann," "The Play of the Rich Man's Death" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has been performed at the Salzburg Festival in front of the mighty Salzburg Cathedral. In 2013, Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes, as the directing team, took on the challen ...

Dyslexie (2013)

Philipp Halbe can not read and write. He avoids life, works in a bar at night and does not engage in serious relationships. One day when his daughter Lily, whose mother died in a car accident, is about to die, he has to face the challenges of life and figh ...

Die Dienstagsfrauen (2011)

Attorney Caroline, the sensitive Judith, the housewife Eva and the affluent entrepreneur Estelle have been friends for 15 years. Once a year, the ladies go on a weekend break, but this time the trip is not a good star: After the death of her husband Arne w ...

Vater Morgana (2010)

Liebe und andere Delikatessen (2010)

Franka Lauth leads a luxurious life. Thanks to her top job in a Berlin advertising agency, she can afford a penthouse, a chic convertible and, by the way, a sofa for 4,500 euros. Her soaring comes to an abrupt end when Franka's ore competitor Markus Spreng ...

So ein Schlamassel (2010)

Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois fa ...

Liebe ist Verhandlungssache (2009)

U-900 (2008)

The year is 1944, Atze and Samuel occasionally operate on the black market, but mostly keep quiet and wait for the Americans to come. When the last German submarine, the U-900, is sent on a final mission, Atze foolishly messes with the general of this miss ...

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudr ...

Hurenkinder (2008)

Einmal Toskana und zurück (2008)

After many years of happy marriage, Juliane and her husband Max have grown apart and are now close to divorce. Actually, the two still understand each other quite well, but when Max shows up at the graduation party of their son together with his much young ...

Another Word and I'll Mary You! (2007)

Katrin is a single mother of twins. When they find out that they owe their existence to a sperm donation, they persuade their mother to find their biological father. ...

Der Tote am Strand (2006)

After 15 years in the USA, a woman in her mid-30s returns to Germany to reconcile with her father, who had broken off contact with her. Before the discussion can take place, the father is murdered. In the course of the investigation, long suppressed secret ...

Reverence (2006)

The near future. Every night the media show new reports about war and terror which constantly loom like a dark cloud over the nation. To protect the citizens from possible air attacks the GNOSIS Corporation has developed a personal bomb shelter for everyon ...

Am Ende des Schweigens (2006)

Alexander Hoffmann travels to Stansbury in southwest England with his fiancée Jessica Wahlberg and his child Ricarda from his first marriage. They are staying in the manor house of Patricia Roth, who inherited it from her uncle. Alexander regularly spends ...

Dem Himmel sei Dank (2005)

Power woman Carla Bergmann is a committed pastor with heart and mind. Thanks to her media-effective appearances, Carla has made a difference in the Third World and, after eventful years abroad, is now looking forward to her pastorate in Cologne. Here she f ...

Nachtasyl (2005)

Die Stunde der Offiziere (2004)

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie. ...

(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and ...

Die Rückkehr des Vaters (2004)

Liebe auf Bewährung (2004)

After the death of her husband, the well-off widow Juliane Willbrand sinks into a great void. Her efforts to return to her old job as a librarian after twenty years prove futile until prison warden Schober gives her a chance. The challenge as head of the p ...

Der Ärgermacher (2003)

How do you get the public's attention? Writer and troublemaker Jochen Anthrazit, known as Jochen A., has been asking himself this question ever since his debut novel "Note 6" was rejected by all publishers. Jochen A. is firmly convinced that this cannot be ...

Grounded (2003)

Young backpacker Henry inadvertently becomes the custodian of an old lady's suitcase at the airport. Moments later, Henry's surrounded by police and accused of being a terrorist. Things only get worse when Detective Harrigan arrives; a hard-nosed cop in no ...

Rosenstrasse (2003)

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah ...

Tage des Sturms (2003)

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitterfeld and tells the story of a family involved in the political events arou ...

Pigs Will Fly (2003)

A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood. ...

Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh (2002)

Nils Lovelorn, blessed with a present ego and a "second self" in the form of a well-rounded super blonde called Bebe, is sent back in time by time machine. There he is to blow out the lights of a pharaoh who, 3000 years later, threatens the world with dest ...

Hannas Baby (2002)

The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that abortion be performed because of a hereditary defect in his family. ...

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and thr ...

Die Liebenden vom Alexanderplatz (2001)

Drama about a former couple who met again 55 years after word war II. ...

Hostile Takeover (2001)

The Hostile Takeover is a tale of how an average pizza delivery guy named Jay gets caught in the middle of the largest territorial war in the city's history. As Jay avoids being killed by both sides in this brutal war, he must also prove his innocence to a ...

After the Truth (1999)

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is as ...

Dragonland (1999)

Hannes left Berlin seven years ago. As a computer kid from the very beginning, he quickly made a career in the USA. ...

All About Bob (1999)

Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. ...

Die Sünde der Engel (1999)

At Fifty, Men Kiss Differently (1999)

A married former art student decides to start painting again, because her children are out of the house and her husband neglects her. However, that is not easy. ...

Hamburg - Stadt in Angst (1999)

The film is about a series of murders in Hamburg, in which Inspector Sophie Fleming, with the help of her ex-boyfriend Martin, hunts down a killer who sinks his victims in the Alster and displays them in the town hall square. ...

Natalie III - Babystrich Online (1998)

Natalie (Anne-Sophie Briest) has found a job and a new love. She meets her 14-year-old Miriam, who risks being under the influence of Natalie's ex-pimp. Natalie and the computer nerd Sven research a child pornography ring. ...

Desert of Fire (1997)

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of ...

Living in Fear (1997)

Tresko - Im Visier der Drogenmafia (1996)

In order to track down the Russian mafia, Joachim Tresko goes undercover in the Berlin art scene. Meanwhile, his wife Katrin seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. She had been researching the trafficking milieu for her newspaper. Tresko is ...

Natascha - Wettlauf mit dem Tod (1996)

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best possible treatment. Unfortunately, they decide against chemotherapy in favor of a gentle natural remedy. When the ...

Atemlos durch die Nacht (1996)

Eine Frau will nach oben (1995)

Ausgespielt (1994)

Single parent Katarina Arndt is desperate because her son Roger is addicted to gambling. He is in the red and urgently needs money. His mother refuses to give him any more. Roger is forced to rob a store in order to pay off his gambling debts. However, thi ...

Rotwang Must Go! (1994)

Business tycoon Rotwang has been murdered. In a series of intertwined, loosely connected flashbacks, the film recounts the ludicrous events leading up to the bloody deed, while also pursuing some bizarre side plots. There are many possible perpetrators bec ...

Das Geheimnis (1994)

Im Teufelskreis (1993)

Wehner – die unerzählte Geschichte (1993)

Geheimakte Lenz (1992)

Gerichtstag (1992)

Der absurde Mord (1992)

Operation Radetzky (1992)

Playing with Fire (1991)

A Demon in My View (1991)

A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down. ...

Reise ohne Wiederkehr (1991)

For some disabled children during the Nazi era, their fate becomes a "journey of no return": under the pretext of being transferred to other children's homes, they are in fact subjected to medical experiments and subsequently murdered. The film's plot also ...

Der unsichtbare Freund (1991)

The story takes place in the 1960s, when computers were still big and scary. Nevertheless, this is not about yesterday's technology, but much more about the technology of the day after tomorrow. Ray Müller has incorporated the current problems of chip res ...

Nie im Leben (1990)

Black snow and a grey sky. A young bank robber takes a man as hostage who has been prevented from committing suicide; he is also encumered by a charming, self-willed woman witness . . . But no matter how he tries to extract himself, the three of them are s ...

Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989)

Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian fatherland; but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn as a child. So it takes Otto a while to convince him while time is running low ...

Streets of Yesterday (1989)

This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer. ...

Eine unheimliche Karriere (1989)

Chimären - Fiktion und Wirklichkeit (1988)

Wann, wenn nicht jetzt (1987)

Didi Drives Me Crazy (1986)

German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agen ...

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (1986)

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich (1986)

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus. ...

Fatherland (1986)

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defecti ...

Die Stunde des Léon Bisquet (1986)

Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)

In Hamburg, the police are faced with a mystery after a series of burglaries: there are no clues at the crime scene except for a Japanese character. The characters are soon found all over the city. A retired detective and a journalist finally uncover a hug ...

Der Unbesiegbare (1985)

Hámos' fascination with the cultural mythology of the hero culminates in this witty, elaborately crafted drama, which was produced for European television. Hámos intercuts two parallel narratives to tell his story: a cartoonish, campy science fiction adv ...

Consistency Is Key (1983)

The Edge of Darkness (1983)

"On the Shore of Dusk" - Star journalist Thomas Bongart learns that he will only be alive for a short time due to his cancer. His girlfriend Lena learns of the terrible diagnosis and decides that if he has to die, she wants to end her life together with hi ...

Schlaflose Tage (1982)

Zero Point (1982)

A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story. ...

After Midnight (1981)

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo. ...

Fabian (1980)

The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s. ...

50/50 (1978)

Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross. ...

Niemandsland (1978)

Shirin's Wedding (1976)

In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a small village in Turkey in search of him. ...

Oblomows Liebe (1976)

Thomas Bernhard: The Force of Habit (1974)

Live recording from the Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg Festival) 1974 ...

Der Tote vom Sarntal (1974)

A Very Perfect Couple (1974)

Angela and Robert have been married for ten years and make a perfect couple. They are madly in love with each other, give each other plenty of space and support each other in everyday life. This idyll is put to the test when Robert's girlfriend Claudia mov ...

Lohn und Liebe (1974)

Kein Grund zur Unruhe (1974)

The Little Lion And The Big Ones (1973)

Manfred takes his nephew, Martin, on a business trip to Rome. They stay with Manfred's brother Georg, who lives in Rome. On the way there Manfred and Martin meet Lilo, a girl who is also on her way to Rome. ...

Ferdinand Lassalle (1972)

Der Mann auf meinem Rücken (1972)

Zur schönen Aussicht (1972)

Junge Leute wollen lieben (1971)

A teenage couple provides sexual information for their peers in words and pictures, combining their ideological criticism of the older generation with a call for sexual liberation. ...

Paul Esbeck (1971)

Yearning for Love (1970)

Birgit tries to be a good housewife, but she and her boyfriend are threatened by a group of gangsters. ...

Slap in the Face (1970)

Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slap ...

Marija (1969)

Der Fall Lena Christ (1969)

In April 1920, the Bavarian writer Lena Christ put an end to her own life in the Munich Waldfriedhof. The film tells the story of the tragic life of this unhappy woman. ...

Fememord (1969)

Tamara (1968)

A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany. ...

Degree of Murder (1967)

After accidentally killing her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger and his friend to dispose of the body while becoming intimate with both men. ...

Frühlings Erwachen (1966)