Joachim Bißmeier

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Pride (2017)

An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air. ...

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 ...

Brief an mein Leben (2015)

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free adaptation of the biographical novel of the same name by Miriam Meckel with Grimme award winner Marie Bäumer ...

Konrad Adenauer - Hours of Decision (2012)

This documentary drama recreates some important situations from the political and private life of Konrad Adenauer, former and first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, between 1933 and 1967. ...

The Chinese Man (2011)

A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin ...

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (2011)

In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers remain divided over their fate. Desperate for food and h ...

Die Toten vom Schwarzwald (2010)

A woman disappears mysteriously in the middle of a forest. Police begins his search, in addition to her husband, a forensic expert. When officers asked to provide them with a photograph of the missing, he discovers that someone has entered her house and st ...

Meine schöne Nachbarin (2009)

Doro is young, beautiful and a trained opera singer that gets by with occasional jobs. Her neighbour, a former criminal detective, is dying and she cares for him in his last moments. His dying wish is to see his son Michael. Doro fulfills the old man's wis ...

Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007)

Caravaggio (2007)

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that s ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

Joyeux Noel (2005)

France, 1914, during World War I. ...

A Christmoose Carol (2005)

A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the young boy ...

Spiele der Macht – 11011 Berlin (2005)

As an advisor to the Federal Chancellor, political scientist Sara M. Kardow quickly learns the difference between political theory and practice. The Chancellor hands Sara incriminating evidence. Unexpectedly, she soon has great political influence herself: ...

Silentium (2004)

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself. ...

Familie auf Bestellung (2004)

Alex can only accept his uncle's inheritance if he presents his wife and child. ...

Before the Fall (2004)

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters haz ...

Operation Valkyrie (2004)

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. Th ...

Anatomy 2 (2003)

The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors ...

Letter from an Unknown Woman (2002)

Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life to her boundless love. In her letter, Rose looks back on a variety of meetings with Albert: Since childhoo ...

Das letzte Versteck (2002)

Der Überfall (2000)

Looking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the tragicomic of the less-than-expert robber, the cranky tailor and a cust ...

the Detour (2000)

The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Wo ...

Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

Busenfreunde (1997)

Die Halbstarken (1996)

1945 (1994)

St. Petri Schnee (1991)

In Morwede, a remote Westphalian village, the doctor meets Dr. Amberg in the 1930s. ...

Der Schwierige (1991)

Der Mitwisser (1989)

17-year-old Paul kills someone. His father decides to flee with him to the south of France. Their relationship is put to the test there. While Paul frees himself from his feelings of guilt, his father feels more and more like a failure. ...

Schlange, Herz und Pantherkopf (1987)

Heiße Tage im Juli (1984)

Germany in Autumn (1978)

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original le ...

Auf dem Chimborazo (1977)

Die Rakete (1975)

Georginas Gründe (1975)

Adaptation of a story by Henry James. ...

The Hunting Party (1974)

The bark-beetle has invaded the big forest of the general, just as a fatal illness has into the body of its owner. The general is suffering from eye cataract, preventing him from seeing the symptoms of the trees' decline, just as he is unable to see his ow ...

Der Sieger von Tambo (1973)

Sankt Peters Regenschirm (1971)

Juno und der Pfau (1969)

Der Mieter (1967)

A new tenant is suspected of being a serial killer. An adaptation of The Lodger, a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. ...