Josef Bierbichler

Daughters (2021)

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepf ...

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis (2020)

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling ...

Zwei Herren im Anzug (2018)

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid. ...

Don't Look at Me That Way (2016)

Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sofia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love with Hedi. Suddenly Iva's father appears. Hedi feels strongly attracted to him. It seems that only one world exists ...

Landauer (2014)

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II. ...

Exit Marrakech (2013)

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son wil ...

Brand (2011)

Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelst ...

The White Ribbon (2009)

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI. ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

The Bone Man (2009)

Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a suppos ...

A Year Ago in Winter (2008)

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work. ...

The Architect (2008)

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has m ...

Bierbichler (2008)

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler. ...

Ohne einander (2007)

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Winter Journey (2006)

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hitherto ordinary man one day finds himself on a journey to Nairobi to get his money back, and perhaps his human ...

Außer Kontrolle (2005)

Wedding Shower (2003)

The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek. ...

A Birthday to Remember (2003)

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm "Hierankl". ...

Hamlet_X (2003)

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story. ...

Ein Dorf sucht seinen Mörder (2002)

Heidi (2001)

In the new film adaptation of Johanna Spyri's popular children's book, Heidi is sent to live for a short time with her eccentric grandfather, the "Alpöhi", who lives alone above the village and initially wants nothing to do with his granddaughter. Heidi's ...

Code Unknown (2000)

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is loo ...

The Farewell (2000)

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family. ...

Failure as a Chance (2000)

Feature documentary about Christoph Schlingensief's political party/art project "Chance 2000". ...

Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand (1998)

Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame in Germany and has to go away without violence. The homeless Hick takes up the idea and demonstrates the abolition of Kohl. ...

Winter Sleepers (1997)

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being ...

Free Fall (1997)

Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drives on and enlists the help of his friend Werner for a conclusive alibi. However, before they can arrange the alibi, the police are already at the door. Soon ...

Picasso in Munich (1997)

In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his own d ...

Dicke Freunde (1995)

Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to save a bankrupt bank. ...

Deadly Maria (1993)

40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take care of her ill despotic father. One day, she falls in love with her sensitive neighbour Dieter. But her attempt to leave her gloomy everyday lif ...

Hamburger Gift (1992)

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of tons of vapor in Vietnam 'Agent Orange', and the involvement of the later Federal President, Richard Karl Weizsäcker, who was hiring manager when productio ...

Wildfeuer (1991)

Der unsichtbare Freund (1991)

The story takes place in the 1960s, when computers were still big and scary. Nevertheless, this is not about yesterday's technology, but much more about the technology of the day after tomorrow. Ray Müller has incorporated the current problems of chip res ...

Wilhelm Tell (1990)

Claus Peymann's production of Schiller's play about oppression, rebellion and human rights is less a flaming political appeal than a subtle exploration of human behavior in a social conflict. ...

Wohin? (1988)

Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a terrorist organization, and a disgruntled waitress has looks that can kill, literally and not figuratively speaki ...

Triumph der Gerechten (1987)

Heal Hitler! (1986)

Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit. Fast forward forty years after the war to Munich's Hofgarten, where in front of the patched-up ruins of the Army Museum, Herbert reappea ...

Rita Ritter (1984)

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her w ...

The Olympic Champion (1983)

Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unknown boy has chosen the most beautiful woman in Munich - sportswoman Ilona - as his mother. She has ambitions to win an Olympic title. Adi's reality is diffe ...

Straight Through the Heart (1983)

Released in Germany in 1983 as Mitten Ins Herz, Straight Through the Heart was director Doris Dorrie's first feature. Beate Jensen portrays Anna, an odd, quirky young girl. She begins a romance with the much older dentist Dr. Armin Thal (Josef Bierbichler) ...

The Ghost (1982)

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are married anyway. Therefore, he refers to himself as "Ober" (waiter), obviously the male form of "Oberin" (Mother ...

Kampftag (1982)

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Mein Freund der Scheich (1981)

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Der Neger Erwin (1981)

A filmmaker (Achternbusch) is just released from prison and has to make a living with his craft again. He is followed by a reporter who wants an interview and winds up at an inn called "Zum Neger Erwin," run by a woman whom he convinces to be the leading ...

Der Komantsche (1979)

After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not match the dreams he had of it during his coma: it seems bleak and barren to him. The Comanche shows the audience his view of everyday life in Germ ...

Woyzeck (1979)

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on ...

Max und Sandy (1978)

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a similar situation in their private lives. ...

Der junge Mönch (1978)

Bavaria has become an arctic, hostile environment; at the site of the former state capital, a huge geyser is now gushing through the ice sheet. Miraculously, the home village where the young monk Herbert lives has been spared from the catastrophe. Now he p ...

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They try Ing ...

Bye-Bye Bavaria! (1978)

A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to die there. ...

Beer Chase (1977)

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Oktoberfest. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other relati ...

Heart of Glass (1976)

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obsse ...

The Atlantic Swimmers (1976)

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic. ...

Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig' Leben (1975)

Sieben Erzählungen aus der Vorgeschichte der Menschheit (1975)

1. A modern Bavarian brewer, Emanuel Holzbauer, faces a sales crisis and targets his competitors to save his brewery. 2. In 1567, Protestant merchant Johann Christof Paumgartner—outlawed by church and state—compassionately aids the poorest in his town ...

Zwei Herren im Anzug (2018)

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid. ...

Triumph der Gerechten (1987)