Jörg Schüttauf

Der Fall Marianne Voss (2024)

Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under suspicion of murder. But he protests his innocence. ...

Schlepper - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

Geburt der Drachenfrau - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

Friedhof der Welpen - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

A Feast for Life (2023)

A fast-paced ensemble comedy about a wedding planner and his thrown-together crew whose meticulously planned celebration gets way out of hand. ...

Wolfsjagd (2023)

Wildlife ranger Sara Jahnke prefers to live in the solitude of Canada's forests rather than among people. In her home in Brandenburg, with her father Robert Jahnke and her grown-up daughter Julia, she can only manage for a limited time. Shortly before her ...

Wolfswinkel (2023)

Melanie is in her mid-thirties and works for the Brandenburg police. Her precinct is the province north of Berlin. Melanie likes it when anybody likes her. If it gets political, she keeps herself out. But that's no longer so easy when her best friend Lydia ...

We Might As Well Be Dead (2022)

The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the res ...

A Stasi Comedy (2022)

East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a life as a celebrated underground poet and his career as a St ...

Freunde sind mehr - Viergefühl (2022)

The Girl With the Golden Hands (2022)

East Germany, in autumn 1999. Gudrun Pfaff is about to turn sixty when she finds out that the orphanage she grew up in is being sold to turn into a hotel, and she is willing to do anything to stop it. ...

Dear Thomas (2021)

Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize ...

Todesurteil - Nemez und Sneijder ermitteln (2021)

Sabine Nemez is now studying at the BKA academy with the eccentric forensic scientist Sneijder. Although she is shocked by the death of her boyfriend, her lecturer puts the young investigator on three unsolved murders. Second case of the duo after Andrea ...

Die Jägerin - Nach eigenem Gesetz (2021)

The committed public prosecutor Judith Schrader is once again fighting against organized crime in Berlin. She is not only investigating two opposing rocker clans, but also against vigilante justice in the ranks of the police. During an operation in the roc ...

Faking Bullshit (2020)

A few small town cops are resorting to unusual means to keep their police station from being closed. ...

Kranke Geschäfte (2019)

Armin Glaser, a lieutenant in the Stasi, lives with his wife Marie and daughter Kati in Karl-Marx-Stadt. They put their sick daughter in the care of Dr. Sigurd. But Armin becomes suspicious during the treatments. He uses his rank in the Stasi to obtain inf ...

I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)

While Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams of a future in Europe, German pilot Marion is struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. When the two meet at the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris, they engage in a kind of double-cross and decide to enter in ...

Magische Momente - Pauls Weihnachtswunsch (2018)

Never Look Away (2018)

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. ...

13 Uhr mittags (2018)

Olaf Gabriel is the head of the department and at the same time the only employee of the police station in Hedly, a small northern German coastal town. He has quit his service and waits at the station for his successor. But instead of the replacement appea ...

Der Tod und das Mädchen - Van Leeuwens dritter Fall (2017)

Thanks to the latest DNA technology, Bruno van Leeuwen finally has a proof in his hands, with which the rapist of the then nine-year-old Vicky can be convicted. Piet Martens, the neighbor of the girl's family, was the culprit. But despite the new evidence, ...

Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2017)

A family drama about a German teenager who leaves home totally unexpectedly to join the ranks of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in its armed struggle. When the boy's father and older brother set off on an adventurous journey to the Syrian border, they ma ...

Forwards Ever! (2017)

A stage actor's turn as GDR leader Erich Honecker inspires an outlandish scheme to keep his daughter safe during the Leipzig protests of 1989. ...

Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte (2016)

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the thr ...

Heimat ist kein Ort (2015)

The unemployed taxi driver Klaus, the gay dog sitter Uwe and the strict nurse Inge did not have an easy childhood. Her mother died too early, the father then gave her home. Now the old man has died and for the hated Kurbjuweits is the Notarbesuch on. Klaus ...

The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bau ...

Krauses Geheimnis (2014)

Horst Krause still can't believe that his sister Meta moved to Cologne because of love. When a stranger surprisingly asks for a room, some excitement returns. Albert has been abandoned by his wife and does not know how to proceed. But why does the sailor e ...

Katie Fforde - Das Meer in dir (2014)

Marie Franklin has erased all memories of her past. She wants nothing and no one to remind her of the great loss she suffered a few years ago. However, she refuses to accept that she is not only harming herself, but also her son Thomas. Marie's headstrong ...

BlitzBlank (2013)

Ganz der Papa (2012)

The former professional footballer Alex Brehm has taken care of his daughter Charlie since the accidental death of his wife. The girl suffers greatly from the loss of her beloved mother, but is an avid footballer and finds distraction from her grief, at le ...

Stankowskis Millions (2011)

In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work d ...

Kongo (2010)

Nicki Ziegler, Oberleutnant der Feldjäger, wird zu einem Auslandseinsatz in den Ostkongo geschickt. Gemeinsam mit ihrem forschen Kollegen Werner Malinckrodt soll sie den Selbstmord des Soldaten Wenz klären. Tatsächlich deutet zunächst alles auf Selbstm ...

Schneewittchen (2009)

Snow White's stepmother is jealous of her beauty. So great was her vanity that she kept asking her magic mirror: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?". And he replied that Snow White was a thousand times more beautiful than she ...

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 ...

Emilie Richards - Das Paradies am Ende der Welt (2009)

Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father's violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand and falls in love despite her inner resistance. However, the shadows of the past will not let you forget. Julia's ...

Das total verrückte Wochenende (2009)

Hannah and her husband, the insurance agent Reinhard Petzold, initially lead a quiet life in Swabia. However, when daughter Lina goes to Berlin for a weekend and Hannah and Reinhard secretly follow her, this throws the orderly family life into disarray. In ...

Die Blücherbande (2009)

Werner Blücher is what you'd call a real thoroughbred crook: not a second seems to go by without the cunning rascal coming up with an idea for the next coup. It's just too bad that Blücher's criminal career hasn't been too successful so far - his lawyer ...

I've Never Been Happier (2009)

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren't beautiful things to brighten it up a little, including pretty faces. Frank Knöpfel constantly flirts with life with his beguiling bright blue e ...

The Wall - The Final Days (2008)

Email to Bill Gates (2007)

Young German boy whose father tells him that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates can solve anything. His father dies and the little boy makes a trip to Seattle with his grandfather to find Bill Gates. ...

Nichts ist vergessen (2007)

It has been ten years since twelve-year-old Paula Wagner was the victim of a terrible crime - raped and murdered by her tennis teacher. Eleven years in which her parents Kai and Maria Wagner found it difficult to come to terms with what had happened. ...

Küss mich, Genosse! (2007)

Jenny is hit in the head by a soccer ball. When she comes to, the clock has turned back exactly 32 years! It is June 21, 1974, the year of the football World Cup, one day before the football match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. Jenny ...

Arnies Welt (2005)

Beetles for Breakfast (2005)

Single mom Michaela has been unemployed for a year when a job offer brings her out to a wellness hotel in the countryside near Berlin. ...

Nachbarinnen (2005)

The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life spins out of control when she has to hide her mysteriously fascina ...

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 ...

Mörderische Suche (2004)

Katharina's husband Richard vanishes in Prague. She uncovers his fake EU job, affair with Vera, and theft from the Russian mafia after Vera's father's murder. With help from undercover cop Bové, she learns Richard isn't a killer but entangled in crime, th ...

Der Stich des Skorpion (2004)

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in togethe ...

Das Schwalbennest (2004)

Männer im gefährlichen Alter (2004)

Jewel thieves Mario and Henry are struggling to find a stable life after a long spell in prison: Mario as a saxophonist, Henry as a garbage collector. ...

September (2003)

Couples and families in the days after September 11, 2001. All relationships become complictaed, but only one of the four nested stories surrounding a German who condemns the attack, and her husband, a Muslim who advocates it, offers approximate a discussi ...

Ein ganzer Kerl für Mama (2002)

By a stupid coincidence, single mother Tanja and her two children have to share their vacation home on the Cote d'Azur with the writer Paul Wackernagel. A pure battle of the sexes breaks out between the author of chauvinistic advice books for suffering men ...

Operation Rubikon (2002)

Der Freund von früher (2002)

1000 Meilen für die Liebe (2001)

Berlin is in Germany (2001)

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification. ...

Vor Sonnenuntergang (2000)

Todesflug (2000)

Warten ist der Tod (1999)

Der Todeszug (1999)

Ich habe nein gesagt (1999)

Die Braut (1999)

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christian ...

Bis zum Horizont und weiter (1999)

When Katja, Henning's girlfriend, is sentenced to prison, he kidnaps the judge to free Katja. ...

Operation Noah (1998)

The Christmas party at the headquarters of an oil company is harshly interrupted by a fax whose author threatens to blow up one of their oil platforms. Unfortunately not only crew members are on board the platform but some kids that wanted to bring their f ...

Liebesfeuer (1998)

A drama directed by Hartmut Schoen. ...

König auf Mallorca (1998)

Alte Liebe, alte Sünde (1997)

Restorer Imke is called back to her hometown, which she once left after a dispute with her family. An unknown assailant has shot at the image of the sinner Mary Magdalene in the church. ...

Viel Spaß mit meiner Frau (1997)

Der große Abgang (1995)

The young and ambitious prosecutor Gudrun Lambert has a big fish on the hook: Axel Bode. The notorious hitman has already confessed to four murders. But he stubbornly refuses to name his client. However, Lambert wants more than just Bode's conviction. She ...

Schlagbaum (1992)

Lenz (1992)

Frank und Robert (1992)

Das größte Fest des Jahres (1991)

A TV special about the christmas celebrations of the most popular TV characters in the ZDF at that time. ...

Engel mit einem Flügel (1991)

The Light of Love (1991)

804, Thuringia. An orphan boy, called Bengel, lives in a monastery and is teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurses a black rider, who is shunned by everyone and is said to have the plague, back to health. The rider tells him about the missing ...

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. ...

The Architects (1990)

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he wo ...

The Dragon Daniel (1990)

On a school trip, Daniel discovers a cave that sparks his vivid imagination: he wonders if there are dragons that live in caves like this? ...

Immensee (1989)

Young Elisabeth goes on a country trip with her mother, her friends Reinhard and Erich, their parents and the pastor. While the adults prepare a picnic lunch, the three youngest members of the group are asked to look for berries for dessert. The dutiful Er ...

Passage (1988)

Ernst Thälmann (1986)

This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, ...

Ete and Ali (1985)

Ete and Ali are discharged from the army. Since Ete knows that his wife is having an affair, he doesn't want to go home. Ali tries to persuade his friend to stand up for himself and to kick the other man out. But since Ete obviously lacks courage, Ali hims ...