Kaspar Eichel

Rising High (2020)

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs. ...

Masel Tov Cocktail (2020)

A Russian-Jewish teenager Dima gets into a school fight, and then breaks the fourth wall and passionately and ferociously talks about his views, and about the hypocritically tolerant way in which his world works. ...

Lotte Jäger und die Tote im Dorf (2018)

Erich Mielke - Master of Fear (2015)

Docudrama about life, career and breakdown of Erich Mielke, the former Security chief of East Germany. ...

Der Blinde (1996)

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintenden ...

Die Bratpfannenstory (1995)

Paula Semmelrogge's little store is under threat. But a blow with a frying pan turns the old, withered and stingy retired lawyer and landlord Riemer into the youthful lover he has always suppressed within himself. Compulsions now fall off him like chains, ...

Gänsehaut (1990)

The story of a 14-year-old boy's problems. Unable to overcome his parents' divorce, Steffen mutates into a "failure" and has to repeat year 7 at school. His mother and teachers are helpless and disappointed in the boy. He remains withdrawn from them and bu ...

Annoncenglück (1987)

Tumult bei Wernickes (1987)

Karl becomes a father earlier than expected - at the same time as the delivery of his car. Chaos is bound to break out... ...

Kellner sind auch nur Menschen (1987)

Die Weihnachtsklempner (1986)

Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby at any moment, is anything but thrilled. But it doesn't help, duty is duty. One emergency call follows anoth ...

Das Mehrzweckzimmer (1986)

Die Gänse von Bützow (1985)

In 1794 Bützow, widow Hornborstel, a top goose breeder, presses Mayor Hane to marry her. Rebuffed, he bans free‐range geese under a "goose edict." Enraged, she enlists revolutionary‐minded Magister Albus to rally citizens. They rise for goose freedom, ...

Es steht der Wald so schweigend (1985)

The young forester Rudolf is released from a mental hospital after suffering from a mental illness. His widowed mother accompanies the taciturn son to a vicarage where he is supposed to recover. There he meets the pastor's daughter Anna, with whom he immed ...

Flieger (1984)

During a training flight, the experienced MiG fighter pilot Major Klaus Kornhod almost crashes. An investigation into the incident reveals that Kornhold is no longer allowed to fly MiGs for health reasons. A heavy blow for the passionate aviator, who had b ...

Die lieben Luder (1983)

Factory workers Yvonne and Evchen have their nose full of married men who appeal to them again and again in their home for a short adventure. In short, they decide to profit from this state: Evchen goes to her home with the willing men and puts her in a cl ...

Der blaue Oskar (1982)

Trabant zu verkaufen (1980)

Brigitte, Carola and Susi can hardly believe their luck. They have hit the jackpot and won a brand new Trabi! Unfortunately, none of the three have a driving license. So they quickly agree to sell the car. Soon there are more interested parties than the th ...

Farewell to Peace (1979)

Prague 1913: The family of newspaper publisher Alexander Reither, traditionally reunited for a New Year's dinner, moves along convoluted and secretive paths in everyday life. Granddaughter Wally is impressed by the opaque businessman Marko Gelusich. Her co ...

Des Henkers Bruder (1979)

On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant leader Joß takes Christoph in. He learns to read, write and use a weapon. When Hieronymus is on his way to ...

Scharnhorst (1978)

The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes (1977)

Television adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale. ...

Heiraten weiblich (1975)

Daughter, mother and grandmother live together in a female household. Young Hannelore Pohl introduces her boyfriend Spletti to her grandmother, as her relationship with her mother does not seem suitable for such affairs. Grandma Wiedemann is also not avers ...

Der Leutnant vom Schwanenkietz (1974)

The film describes the activity of an ABV of the People's Police in its section in East Berlin. A mixture of "positive" characters from the beginning, the extensively staged "owl", who is introduced as a criminal and over the course of time, especially due ...

Ein Kugelblitz aus Eberswalde (1972)

Verwandte und Bekannte (1971)

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the ...

Hafengeschichten (1971)

The pretty young crane operator Vera is the only woman in a team of dock workers at the overseas port of Rostock. She has to hold her own against her male colleagues. Fortunately, she has the support of her grandfather, who is the porter at the girls' host ...

Verdacht auf einen Toten (1969)

Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a man for safekeeping when he was 16 years old, toward the end of the war. Years later, they are picked up. However, this act proves to be his undoing. Before ...

Take Care of Susi! (1968)

A funny old comedy about ten year old Micha who decide that as a responsible brother he must prevent his older sister - seventeen year old Susi - from any romantic relations. ...

The Banner of Kryvyi Rih (1967)

In an act of friendship and solidarity between two mining towns in 1929, the locals of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, give their flag as a gift to the locals of Bergstedt, Germany in this GDR propaganda film. This quickly takes on a symbolic meaning for the miners i ...

Berlin Around the Corner (1966)

Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf and Horst are two young metalworkers, who provoke their older colleagues with critiques of the antiquated equipment and lack of materials... not to mention their love of leather jackets and motorbikes. Olaf and Horst begin to be t ...

Tiefe Furchen (1965)

Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red Shoemaker" also returns to his home village. His wife is dead and others live in his house: Gebhardt, an em ...

The Adventures of Werner Holt (1965)

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war. ...

The Golden Goose (1964)

Klaus lives with his two brothers Kunz and Franz in a little village. Together, they ply their trade as cobblers in a small workshop. But the workload rests mainly on the shoulders of ill-treated Klaus. When Kunz and Franz go off into the forest to chop wo ...