Hildegard Schroedter

Sad Jokes (2024)

Director Joseph is working through a new idea for a film and the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc. At the same time Sonya, the mother of his son Pino, is suffering from a depression that increasingly tears her from her life. ...

The Cuckoo's Curse (2023)

Two couples, Marc and Anna, from Spain, and Hans and Olga, from Germany, swap their homes for vacation. ...

Mission Ulja Funk (2023)

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In d ...

Stay Still (2021)

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectation ...

Don't Read This on a Plane (2021)

As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless. ...

Sportabzeichen für Anfänger (2021)

Cookie manufacturer Bertram Dinkler with his old-fashioned know-it-all attitude triggers an unexpected fighting spirit not in the teenagers, but in single mother Stefanie Eckhoff. Stefanie challenges Bertram. She wants him to do a sports badge and try to d ...

Lagos to Oslo (2020)

Aaron is academically gifted, loved, loving and free. Struggling financially to remain in university education, he is introduced to a mysteriously wealthy man who promises him the world. What Aaron gets instead is isolation, confusion and vilification. ...

Werkstatthelden mit Herz (2020)

Until now, Carlo thought he was living a quiet, manageable life. And he seemed content with his "small world". But somehow, things have not been running smoothly in Carlo's life for a few weeks now. At home, problems are emerging with his son Hendrik and w ...

Lara (2019)

Today is Lara's 60th birthday, which happens to fall on the same day as her pianist son's career-defining concert. A failed pianist herself, Lara spends the time before his performance pacing about Berlin—boiling with jealousy, nerves, and pride—trying ...

Das vergessene Dorf – Cora Steins erster Fall (2019)

Down Down Down (2018)

Children's book author Heinrich is confronted with absurd situations in a cold berlin night. ...

Lux - Krieger des Lichts (2018)

The shy late twenties Torsten tile lives with his mother in a bleak Berlin slab. In the guise of his alter ego "Lux - Warrior of Light" he tries to make the world a little bit better. He distributes food to the homeless and helps out on his forays through ...

Harter Brocken: Der Bankraub (2017)

Ironically, the law enforcement officer of integrity Frank Koops is forced by his old colleague Simone Schmidt to take part in a bank robbery... ...

Luther and I (2017)

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s through the writings of Martin Luther. She flees with some of her co-sisters and comes without legal status, w ...

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 ...

We Are The Tide (2016)

15 years ago the sea at the coast of Windholm just vanished. Now two young physicists try to find out, why it happened... ...

Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte (2016)

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the thr ...

Heart of Stone (2016)

Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a ...

The Origin of Violence (2016)

A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald. ...

Alone in Berlin (2016)

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime's victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel's son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long belie ...

Meteor Street (2016)

Mohammed, an 18-year old refugee, lives with his chaotic older brother Lakhdar in a rundown apartment in Berlin. Several years after his family fled the war in Lebanon and moved to Berlin, the sensitive young man still needs to set foot in the harsh male e ...

Im Zweifel (2016)

For Pastor Judith Ehrmann, her job as an emergency counselor is more than just part of her job: giving people assistance is a vocation for them. But when a classmate of her son dies in a car accident, that's unusual. Judith begins to doubt: herself, her jo ...

Matthiesens Töchter (2015)

Old Matthiesen isn't really very friendly with his daughter Esther. She has fled to her parents' riding stables with her 105-kilo bundle of joy son David because her boy is in trouble with the police again. To her and, above all, Matthiesen's surprise, her ...

Das Dorf der Mörder (2015)

A murder in a Berlin zoo puts a policewoman on the trail of a mysterious series of murders that claimed the lives of several men in a Brandenburg village 20 years earlier. Based on Elisabeth Herrmann's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a ...

Buddha's Little Finger (2015)

A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev. ...

Freiland (2014)

A few people decide to found their own little state n the middle of Germany, near Berlin... ...

Superegos (2014)

Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and ...

The Book Thief (2013)

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. ...

Der zweite Mann (2013)

A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor. ...

Ein weites Herz (2013)

When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree despite passing her exams. She has to give up her plan to become a teacher and, against her mother Petra's wishes, manages to perform in a political cabaret ...

Zeugin der Toten (2013)

At the beginning, everything looks like a normal job. But in the apartment of a cruelly murdered woman, Judith Kepler, a crime scene cleaner by trade, encounters her own past. The dead woman had done research and wanted to contact Judith. And she knew her ...

3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race (2012)

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory ...

Bliss (2012)

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship. ...

Burnout (2011)

Pelin, a young single mother from the problem neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding, is sent with her three children by different fathers of different nationalities - Robby (seven), Elvis (four) and Roxanne (ten months) - to a mother-child cure in a scenic, parad ...

Suicide Club (2010)

At sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths. ...

Liebe deinen Feind (2010)

Summer 1945 in Germany. In Nordstrand, a peninsula on the North Sea coast, the British army of occupation has set up its central administration in a carefully cordoned-off base cut off from the mainland. Gesa works in the military base's laundry with other ...

The Silence (2010)

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past. ...

Gonger - Das Böse kehrt zurück (2010)

After Helma is lured into an abandoned villa by the voice of her boyfriend Philipp and brutally murdered there, his friends and family hold him responsible for Helma's death—and for further deaths. But the truth is quite different, because: The "Gonger" ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

Gonger (2009)

A man decides to sell his grandparents' house when he finds out that the death of his parents seems to be connected to a legend about a murdered child. ...

Nothing Else Matters (2008)

Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year. ...

Zepp (2007)

The funny and disillusioned portrait of a farmer who, after the death of his wife, sets off in search of a companion for a great trip to Iceland. ...

Today I Like This Song (2007)

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with ...

The Lives of Others (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to ...

Der Mann im Strom (2006)

Jan Hinrichs is an experienced ship and salvage inspector. After the bankruptcy of his last employer, however, he is not above working as a simple diver. The widower has two children to support and soon a third eater is on board, as his daughter Lena is pr ...