Jenny Schily

Red Stars Upon the Field (2025)

"If the ghosts can visit our time, we can visit theirs". This freewheeling tour of German history of the 20th and 21st centuries follows a postmodern artist back to her East German village birthplace – where a discovered skeleton opens up mysteries both ...

Of Living Without Illusion (2023)

Suburban summer heat. Merit, Eva, Lion, Rose and David cautiously wind around their conflicted relationships. They talk, but their words don't meet. They play theatre while rehearsing their lives. The garden needs watering. Fears of the future and traces o ...

Darling.Sister (2019)

Franz and Lilly run their father's cattle farm together. While Franz is perfectly happy with his life as a cowboy, Lilly dreams of a bigger life. That's when she meets Chris, a musician, with whom she starts a romantic affair. ...

Prélude (2019)

Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the international stage. Although his talent made him special in his home town, he soon realizes that at the conservatory he is but one of many talented students. ...

Der Auftrag (2019)

Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the teenager is aware that he was seen doing it, he still decides to testify as a key witness. This is a difficult ...

What Doesn't Kill Us (2018)

As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with ...

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 ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the last hope (2018)

Anton Schneider says goodbye to his wife Luise in tears and dies. Schneider was seriously ill with multiple sclerosis and was diagnosed by neurologist Dr. Hoffer medically treated. Luise Schneider reports the doctor and accuses him of incorrect treatment o ...

Ein Kommissar kehrt zurück (2016)

Newly retired Chief Inspector Kovak returns to a small village near Greifswald, where a gruesome crime took place 20 years ago. He was unable to solve the case back then because the evidence against the renowned physics professor Adam was not enough. Now h ...

Dead Man Working (2016)

The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's he ...

Kaltfront (2016)

Jan meets Judith by accident and realizes that she is the woman who was supposed to have shot and killed his father, who worked as a security officer at the bank. ...

Grummet (2016)

During the First World War, the battle reaches the small village and changes the fate of an elderly woman and her 12-year-old friend. ...

Der Liebling des Himmels (2015)

The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermos ...

Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (2015)

After her mother decided that the eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take psychotherapeutic drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. The sedated teenager was never a problem for her surroundings – but new challenges arise when the ...

Die Frau, die sich traut (2013)

On her 50th birthday, devoted mother and laundry worker Beate faces a life-changing medical diagnosis that prompts her to pursue a long-buried dream: swimming the English Channel. Juggling her daughter's exams, granddaughter's care, her son and his pregnan ...

Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall (2013)

Teacher Gerrit Suicker's body is found murdered in Amsterdam's Red Light District. A prostitute lies to the police but says she saw the murder on the radio during a call-in program. ...

The Strange Little Cat (2013)

It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family members an ...

Houston (2013)

A German corporate headhunter travels to Houston, Texas, in pursuit of a renowned oil company CEO, only to have his life fall apart. ...

The Case of Jakob von Metzler (2012)

Reported Missing (2012)

All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows the ...

The System (2012)

Mike is twenty, attractive, intelligent and a loner. He only shares his thoughts and an apartment in a prefabricated housing estate in Rostock with his best friend Dustin. There, on the roof with a view of the sea, they smoke their joints and sort stolen g ...

Sleeping Sickness (2011)

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde's ex-pat communi ...

In jeder Sekunde (2008)

Dr. Frick is head of the psychiatric ward of a clinic. He and his wife Anna have an eleven-year-old daughter who suffers from a hereditary disease. Anna finds it very difficult to cope with her child's illness. The fact that Frick only concentrates on the ...

Ihr könnt euch niemals sicher sein (2008)

Der 17-Jährige Gymnasiast Oliver Rother bringt seine Gedanken, Gefühle und Erlebnisse gern in Hip-Hop-Texten zum Ausdruck. Als ihm seine Lehrerin Selma Vollrath eine Sechs für eine Deutscharbeit über "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" gibt, die er im Stil ...

The Last One Put Out the Light (2007)

The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are out of work. The way out spells - Norway. Because German craftsmen are in demand. The three, with 17 other desperate people, are bawling Norwegian and preparing themselves for "it's always just ...

Betty - Schön wie der Tod (2003)

A young woman devotedly runs her father-in-law's construction company, but her husband's reckless lifestyle threatens the company's very existence. Together with the company's authorized signatory, she plans the perfect murder, which seems to be going acco ...

Umwege des Herzens (2001)

After the tragic accidental death of her sister, which she has not seen since a dispute 18 years ago, the architect Sarah suffers from guilt feelings: She believes she could have saved Susanne with a liver donation. To at least do something for Susanne's h ...

The Legend of Rita (2000)

Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown. ...

Der Solist – Kein Weg zurück (1999)

In Hamburg, a suspicious crash and mafia-style killings hinge on witness Maja Stein, who demands protection. Detectives Lanart and Marquardt hide her in a safehouse, but corrupt cops ambush them. Lanart saves Maja as Marquardt is killed. Discovering Maja i ...

Der Kuss des Killers (1998)

A policewoman is put on a man with organized crime connections to gain access to a trafficking ring. However, she does not know that he is a hit man for this ring and so they start an affair that can mean many problems for both of them. ...

Null Risiko und reich (1997)

Up-and-coming writer Junghans leads a rather dull life. ...

You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story (1996)

German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black. ...

Don Quichottes Kinder (1981)