Irm Hermann

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020)

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010. ...

Zwei Herren im Anzug (2018)

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid. ...

Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures. ...

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion (2017)

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller. ...

A French Summer (2016)

Married couple Martin and Jackie meet an unconventional Frenchman named Serge, who both are attracted to. But will their marriage survive it? ...

Der Bulle und das Landei - Goldrausch (2016)

Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending their accidental marriage for good on the long-awaited divorce date, Killmer and Kati Biever take up the investigation. The suspects in their case are rather ec ...

Fassbinder (2015)

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers all the important stages from Action-Theater to the director's early death, supplemented with anecdotes. ...

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands (2015)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany's most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layer ...

The Invention of Love (2013)

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance. ...

Die Libelle und das Nashorn (2012)

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autobiography. The two meet again in the evening at the hotel bar. Ada involves Nino in a game - he is suppose ...

Vatertage - Opa über Nacht (2012)

The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up on his doorstep and quite credible claims to be his daughter. Moreover, they presented him her baby Paul a ...

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake (2012)

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the international art world to the sleepy town of Konstanz. It all began on the shores of Lake Constance where U ...

Say Goodbye to the Story (ATT 1/11) (2012)

A pure nightmare: outtakes of a film that consists of nothing but outtakes. Its truest moment is a dream sequence in which the torturous initial sequence dissipates in an intoxicating rush, only to resurface, ghost-like, in a third sequence. Nothing is fin ...

Playoff (2011)

In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team. ...

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archival material. With openness and slight naivety ...

Faust Sonnengesang (2011)

In no less than 180 minutes the film showed frenzied dashes of wild colors and idyllic natural images, of wonderful music and powerful lyricism, which, among others was flawlessly recited by star actors such as Corinna Harfouch, Angela Winkler and Ulrich M ...

Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)

Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly satisfy her adve ...

Krauses Kur (2009)

On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for him. And so Krause and his sisters set off in the legendary "Dübener Ei". In the sanatorium he meets his ro ...

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. ...

10 Sekunden (2008)

Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in which 83 people lost their lives. Although the incident happened a year ago, he still blames himself, which his wife Franziska can only bear by having affairs. ...

Schokolade für den Chef (2008)

The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust the manager of his chocolate factory. Without further ado, he pretends that his chauffeur is his millionai ...

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders. ...

The Man from the Embassy (2007)

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also brings with it suspicion, corruption and violence. ...

Fashion Victims (2007)

At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that cater to women over 35. When Wolfi loses his drivers license in his brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to ...

TRUST.Wohltat (2007)

Germany in 2020: the state social security systems have been dissolved and will be regulated purely by the private sector from now on. The insurance group TRUST.Wohltat is at the forefront. Well-heeled customers take out pension contracts by buying a "gene ...

Fjorde der Sehnsucht (2007)

Herzlichen Glückwunsch (2005)

A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredients for this both cheerful and emotional film about family ties and love confusion, trust and the ability to let other people have their way. ...

Die letzte Schlacht (2005)

The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the ...

In einem anderen Leben (2005)

Mein Bruder ist ein Hund (2004)

With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control. ...

Germanikus (2004)

The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as a ...

Verführung in 6 Gängen (2004)

Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis. Since the tragic accidental death of his beloved wife, the soul of the gourmet restaurant "La Vie", business has been bad. Daughter Franzi, handicapped by ...

Freakstars 3000 (2003)

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I was shocked about how the disabled were depicted in this film the more I started to realize that in every n ...

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and ...

Die Novizin (2002)

Hamlet: This Is Your Family (2001)

A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief's Nazi-'Hamlet' (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free ...

Gnadenlose Bräute (2001)

Fassbinder's Women (2000)

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

Three Wishes (2000)

Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforeseen wishes. ...

Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women (2000)

What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday, a self-absorbed composer, Adam, does just that: he assembles seven of the most influential women from his l ...

Gefährliche Hochzeit (1999)

Männer und andere Katastrophen (1999)

The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruined apartment and the destroyed paintings of her father. In addition, she also loses her job and her friend ...

Zum Sterben schön (1999)

Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan (1998)

Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois. ...

Walli, die Eisfrau (1998)

Schalom, meine Liebe (1998)

The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking. ...

Victory (1996)

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra. ...

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen (1996)

A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted list, but so far nothing has been proven against him. This changes when a young female detective becomes involv ...

Babuschka (1996)

Zu treuen Händen (1995)

The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA) in the town of Altenburg in Thuringia. The company is ailing. The (corrupt) officer in charge at the THA wants to close the company and give the property t ...

Die Fremde (1995)

TV-movie by Diethard Klante ...

Deutschlandlied (1995)

This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the war in 1945. For some it is salvation, for others total collapse, but for everyone it is a confrontation with the American liberators and occupiers. ...

Hades (1995)

This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His non-story (a typical trait of Achternbusch films) is divided into three parts. The first introduces Hades, an eccen ...

Fünf Millionen und ein paar Zerquetschte (1994)

Grüß Gott, Genosse (1993)

In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the line-loyal educator with a whitewashed CV is immediately accepted back into the teaching profession. He advances to become a model Bavarian. Until one day a pu ...

Everything's a Lie (1992)

Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife al ...

The Party: Nature Morte (1991)

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart. ...

Lippels Traum (1991)

When his parents go away and he has to stay behind alone with an unloved housekeeper, a boy retreats into a dream—into a fairy-tale adventure story like something out of "1001 Nights," in which people from his everyday life reappear as fairy-tale charact ...

Pappa ante Portas (1991)

Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it's time for him to retire early. ...

The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages. ...

Letztes aus der DaDaeR (1990)

In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns - satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The clown ...

Spider's Web (1989)

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a ...

Adrian und die Römer (1989)

Adrian is a single man living in the big city, on the verge of a midlife crisis. So far, he hasn't managed to build a proper family, a fat bank account, or a fancy car. All he has to show for himself is his status as a (bird-free) media employee. ...

Waller's Last Trip (1989)

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood ...

Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess. ...

Innocence Unknown (1988)

After the essay "On Marionette theatre" by Heinrich von Kleist. The film focuses on Kleist himself, torn apart, searching for knowledge, for identity, trapped in his loneliness and self-absorption, jumping over walls, making grimaces, cruelty, suffering. ...

Superbia – The Pride (1988)

Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of death, Baroque tragedy etc.) The triumphal procession of the giant haystack as a symbol of human vanities beco ...

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans ...

The Case of Mr. Spalt (1988)

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film. ...

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Ak ...

Das Totenreich (1986)

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakth ...

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985)

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own o ...

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger's Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines b ...

The Swing (1983)

Based on Annette Kolb's autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Cathol ...

Edith's Diary (1983)

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversi ...

Der Zappler (1983)

Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the children in the neighborhood. Stefan dreams of an operation to make him well, but when he learns after thoroug ...

Eisenhans (1983)

A film by german playwright Tankred Dorst about a case of incest in a rural community. ...

Last Five Days (1982)

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime. ...

The Magic Mountain (1982)

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for thre ...

Bananen-Paul (1982)

A bear escapes from the circus and befriends a girl. ...

Today We're Playing Boss (1981)

Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage. ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Kater Lampe (1981)

Slow Attack (1980)

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is ...

Woyzeck (1979)

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on ...

Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die (1979)

It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon B ...

Mittags auf dem Roten Platz (1978)

Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk (1978)

Women in New York (1977)

In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or lovers. ...

The American Soldier (1976)

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. ...

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend, Raoul, who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's s ...

The Sternstein Manor (1976)

At the top of the mountain stands the beautiful Sternsteinhof farm. Leni, a girl from a poor background, admires this farm and wants to become a farmer's wife there one day to escape her poor circumstances. Toni, the rich owner's son, comes at just the rig ...

Fear of Fear (1975)

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives. ...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has n ...

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for ...

Effi Briest (1974)

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer. ...

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Th ...

Nora Helmer (1974)

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television. ...

Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973)

Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant agai ...

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover. ...

Jail Bait (1973)

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints of their social surroundings. ...

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites he ...

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he ...

The Ancestress (1971)

Mathias Kneißl (1971)

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased ...

Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge. ...

Gods of the Plague (1970)

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Joanna and Margarethe, as well as upon Günther, his friend who earlier shot his brother. ...

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)

Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pressures him to seek a promotion, ...

End of the Commune? (1970)

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play ...

Love Is Colder Than Death (1970)

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join. ...

Baal (1970)

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality. ...

Katzelmacher (1969)

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos ...

Die Revolte (1969)

The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub an ...

The City Tramp (1966)

A tramp finds a gun lying in the street. ...

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for ...

Jail Bait (1973)

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints of their social surroundings. ...