Hede Beck

Vika (2023)

The craftswoman Vika loves her secluded life. She is thrown into a tailspin when she kills a burglar one night in the heat of the moment. The guilt haunts her like a dark shadow until she finds her own form of penance. ...

Homeshopper's Paradise (2022)

Comedy tells the story of an Afro-German punk who starts working as a presenter on a teleshopping channel in order to save the trailer park where she lives with her community. ...

The Death of My Mother (2022)

Kerstin is in great pain. Her daughter Juliane wants to help her die, but the law forbids it. Jessica Krummacher's second feature describes the most important of events via tiny details that stay with us and get under our skin. ...

Trümmermädchen - Die Geschichte der Charlotte Schumann (2021)

Germany, 1946. Hunger, rubble, returning soldiers. Charlotte is pregnant, but her beloved returnee does not want her or his child. In order to win him over and escape the impending shame, she enrolls in the "missing course" of actress Gloria Deven, who was ...

Closing Words (2021)

A documentary allowing us to witness genuine conversations with people who know the date of their death. ...

Die Vergesslichkeit der Eichhörnchen (2021)

Ukrainian Marija works in Germany as a 24-hour carer to support her family back home. Here she looks after Curt, who suffers from dementia, around the clock. When Curt's controlling daughter stays away due to an accident, Curt begins to think Marija is his ...

Endjährig (2020)

The middle of the 21st century. A dystopian drama in an overaged and run-down Germany. When the so-called "Endjährigkeit" - compulsory euthanasia at the age of 80 - is introduced, a father and a son are forced to put their broken relationship to a final ...

Irgendwann ist auch mal gut (2020)

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn't going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to conv ...

Zoros Solo (2019)

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master. ...

22 Karat Liebe (2019)

Ursula, the bride's mother and her sister Hilde are late. They are climbing the staircase of the town hall to reach the rooms where the wedding ceremony will take place. Earlier, Ursula had stolen the wedding rings as she didn't trust anyone else to keep t ...

Die Bestatterin – Der Tod zahlt alle Schulden (2019)

Behind supposedly natural deaths, young mortician Lisa Taubenbaum discovers murders and turns the whole town against her. When an inspector from Stuttgart arrives, the investigation begins and Lisa gets heavily involved. ...

Spätwerk (2018)

Paul Bacher is in crisis. If he could feel in the past as one of the most influential writers of his generation, he has long lacked ideas and impetus for a new great work. His reading tours are becoming more and more a sad affair with too much alcohol and ...

The Hostel (2017)

In a place where a biblical landscape and western myths converge, there is a house, part biker hangout, part mountain farm. It welcomes all beings who traverse this inhospitable landscape. In „The Hostel", past and future merge into one place, and deepes ...

Die Herberge (2017)

Dolores (2016)

A mystery thriller directed by Michael Rösel. ...

Undercover küsst man nicht (2016)

Simon is a notoriously suspicious control freak, Lea is more the unconventional type. He has turned his obsession into a profession and works in the security department of a Stuttgart-based food company; ever since he had the employees' access cards fitted ...

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 ...

Sicher ist Sicher (2016)

Die Blaue Sophia (2015)

A bitter-sweet comedy about miscommunication, grief and the price people are willing to pay to avoid emotions. ...

Marder (2014)

When Sandra returns home from a foreign assignment, she feels like a stranger. ...

15 Minuten Wahrheit (2007)

Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned. ...

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 ...

Gegen die Regel (1987)

The tranquil family life of a police officer is disrupted when a colleague on duty goes berserk and expects him to make a false statement. A question of conscience? But how does one live with a guilty conscience if one violates the unwritten laws of the po ...