Jenny Gröllmann

Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann (2008)

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life. ...

Erbsen auf halb 6 (2004)

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will chang ...

Das blaue Wunder (2004)

Tanners letzte Chance (2002)

Zutaten für Träume (2001)

Jutta and Eric were once lovers and aspiring chefs in the Spree Forest region of East Germany. Too prone too brilliant but risky improvisation, Jutta fell into obscurity; Eric defected to the West and became famous. Now he has returned to enlist her aid of ...

Jagd auf den Plastiktüten-Mörder (2001)

The homosexual journalist Kleinschmidt, who wrote for a trendy newspaper, is murdered in Berlin. During her investigation, the young, ambitious Ann-Christin Hagen quickly reached the limits of her abilities in her first case as chief inspector. That's why ...

Verzweiflung (2000)

Ulrike, released from prison, initially isolates herself due to guilt over her daughter's death. She meets Sigs, and they develop a relationship with some love, but fear of physical contact persists. Ulrike leaves Sigs when she can no longer hide her past. ...

Gaukler der Liebe (1999)

Trickster of love Constantin is a perfect gentleman with impeccable manners. He is charming, well-educated, loving and shows good taste in women: Pretty Isabelle possesses as much class as money. Suddenly, though, young urban cowboy Hendrik appears on the ...

Blutspur in den Osten (1998)

Nur für eine Nacht (1997)

Felix has cancer. Before the 16-year-old starts chemotherapy, he wants to fulfill a big wish: a night with Rebecca, his best friend's cute cousin. But he only has 24 hours until the treatment. Felix's father, who has so far paid precious little attention t ...

Zu Fuß und ohne Geld (1995)

Wer zweimal lügt (1993)

Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1991)

The Lübeck merchant Friedemann owes his crippled figure to a wet nurse "devoted to drink". He lives a secluded life with his three simple-minded sisters and his bedridden mother, loving only the theater and music. Only Gerda, the unhappy wife of the distr ...

Die Ritter der Tafelrunde (1990)

Aging Knights of the Round Table confront a fading realm as moral decay and disillusionment spread. King Arthur doubts the Grail quest; Gawain and Lancelot return unchanged or failed. Parzival, now a chronicler, refuses to revive past glories. ...

Barbaron (1989)

Narrenweisheit (1989)

Späte Ankunft (1989)

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Prussian district of Westprignitz from the late Dr. Tochtenhagen. His decision was met with incomprehension eve ...

Passage (1988)

Die erste Reihe (1987)

Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized. The outwardly shiny façade of Berlin, the capital of the Reich, reveals nothing of the unequal struggle ...

Künstler, König und Modell (1987)

Johann Gottfried Schadow is only in his early twenties when he is put in charge of the royal sculptor's workshop in Prussia's capital Berlin. He is supported in this position above all by the fair ladies. ...

Das Buschgespenst (1986)

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. ...

Hälfte des Lebens (1985)

This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe. ...

Isabel on the Stairs (1984)

Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel's father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin ...

Die Poggenpuhls (1984)

The long-established aristocratic von Poggenpuhl family has seen better days. Towards the end of the 19th century, the major's widow and her children have long since eked out a poor existence characterized by a lack of money. Only the dusty ancestral galle ...

Heisse Ware in Berlin (1984)

1950, the extensive network of sewers beneath the city of Berlin. This cesspool underworld, whose sewers led from the eastern to the western part of the city and vice versa, had become the main transshipment point for a gang of criminals for their hot good ...

Es geht einer vor die Hunde (1983)

Your Unknown Brother (1982)

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany. ...

Die lange Ankunft des Alois Fingerlein (1981)

Dangerous Games (1980)

1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested. In the summer vacation the kids from the neighbourhood fight in two teams, which prevail in turns. One team, led by Ewald, imit ...

Arno Prinz von Wolkenstein oder Kader entscheiden alles (1980)

Hochzeit in Weltzow (1979)

The 20-year-old Berliner Wilhelm, called Willi, returns from two years as a prisoner of war to the village of Weltzow in the Havel region, where he meets Hans Graber, a former comrade from the front. Hans is now a teacher and finds Willi a job with innkeep ...

The Flight (1977)

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the de ...

Der verspielte Scheidungsgrund (1974)

Filmemacher (1971)

They are just 17 years old when Gaby and Eva receive the offer to play in a feature film that ambitious Hamburg filmmakers want to make. Despite their youth, the girls are suspicious because they have already experienced a lot. On the other hand, that woul ...

Do You Know Urban? (1971)

Hoffi is starting fresh after his release from prison. He travels with his brother to different construction sites in search of Urban, an acquaintance and role model he met during a brief hospital stay. Along the way, Hoffi meets Gila, who sees beyond his ...

Netzwerk (1970)

The writer Schaffrath enters the office of Dr. Hans Kahler, a graduate engineer, and asks if he may look around the facility, as he intends to write a report on the workers in the new section of an oil refinery. ...

I Was Nineteen (1968)

A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him ...

Stories of That Night (1967)

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and e ...

Oma und die bösen Buben (1967)

Pranksters Moritz Bolle and Max Sturbier plague their neighbors with cruel tricks - especially young record‐seller Brigitte, whom Moritz woos by posing as a Mozart‐loving engineer. When sharp‐witted Grandma Heimdall uncovers his lies, she tailors him ...