Isabell Polak

Danowski - Neunauge (2025)

A series of bizarre deaths shock the city of Hamburg: Mummified corpses are discovered in school basements. The local police enlist the help of Germany's most popular case analyst, Martin Gaitner. Inspector Danowski can't stand his colleague and doubts his ...

Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film (2024)

Insults, humiliation, violence, sexual assault - the world behind the camera and the scenes can be a nightmare for many theater and film professionals. Apparently there is a real climate of fear in some film and theater productions. Some directors, but als ...

Mit Harpunen schießt man nicht (2023)

Pensioner Gerda grabs burglar Simon (armed with a harpoon) and forces him to be her carer. Anything is better than the nursing home to which she was taken by her daughter Linda. When the daughter has to move in with her mother because her apartment has bec ...

Mein Vater, der Esel und ich (2023)

For single mother Tinka, a village policewoman, a sense of responsibility is paramount - but not for her father Hartmut "Bonanza" Zeller. When the once-successful rock musician drops in on her after years of radio silence, she wants to get rid of him right ...

Dr. Hoffmann - Die russische Spende (2022)

Urgent call from the clinic: Not for the first time, Dr. Felix Hoffmann the comfortable TV evening for use in the emergency room. He spontaneously takes over the night shift for a colleague. The ward doctor has no idea what consequences the next few hours ...

Precious Ivie (2021)

Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves. ...

Matze, Kebab und Sauerkraut (2020)

Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously fr ...

Als ich mal Groß war (2019)

Filmmakers Lilly Engel and Philipp Fleischmann spent five years documenting their three children Lucas, Marius and Renée. The viewer can experience them on their journey from children to teenagers - and at the same time the changes in their dreams. The fi ...

Geschenkt (2018)

Gerold Plassek is an unsuccessful journalist on a free sheet. As an ex-girlfriend who suddenly has to go abroad and entrusted him with her son Manuel, his everyday life changes suddenly. The critical 14-year-old becomes a real challenge. Manuel has no idea ...

Verliebt in Masuren (2018)

Strongly acted, charmingly cheeky character comedy with a gentle culture clash note. After a boat accident, seaman Kurt (Hans-Uwe Bauer) needs short-term support in everyday life. A mammoth task, since no one can cope with the difficult patient. The emerge ...

Katie Fforde: Mein Wunschkind (2015)

Joy of Fatherhood (2014)

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all... ...

Woman in Love (2011)

An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie. ...