Katja Riemann

Agnes & Amir (2026)

Amir is 28, gay and has just fled from Iran. Agnes is 101 and still too young for a retirement home - she thinks. The two move in together - and save each other's lives. ...

Bittere Früchte - Ausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft (2024)

The documentary follows the trail of fruit and vegetables from the shopping cart back to various cultivation areas throughout Europe. The entire supply chain is revealed via a system that includes the inhumane exploitation of harvest workers and agricultur ...

Stella. A Life. (2024)

Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy. ...

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema (2023)

Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, talks about his private life, his work in film and the books he has written. ...

Propaganda Battle Over Ukraine (2023)

The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is not only waged with bombs, rockets and rocket-propelled grenades, but also in the media. It is a "propaganda battle" internally and externally. Russia spreads targeted disinformation in order to systematically de ...

Fly (2021)

Bex has caused a serious accident and is therefore in prison. In order to rehabilitate the inmates, the prison offers them a dance class led by Ava. But Bex doesn't want to take part. However, she has no other choice and soon she feels drawn to Jay in part ...

Catweazle (2021)

Otto Waalkes plays a magician who strayed into the present from the 11th century and who absolutely wants to return to his time. ...

Smart Berlin – Der „Stutti“ (2020)

The area around Stuttgarter Platz unites the most diverse worlds: It is a celebrity neighborhood, middle-class Charlottenburg and a meeting place for the drug scene. The documentary "Smart Berlin - Der Stutti" is a portrait of this special neighborhood thr ...

Generation Fridays for Future (2020)

Who are the young people who are involved in the "Fridays for Future" movement and who relentlessly take to the streets for environmental and climate protection? What are their life like and how will their activism be influenced or changed by current event ...

Enfant Terrible (2020)

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers ...

Four Enchanted Sisters (2020)

Based on Sheridan Winn's book series "Sprite Sisters" about the magical adventures of sisters Flame, Sky, Flora and Marina. ...

Malia (2019)

Berlin, I Love You (2019)

An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital. ...

The Perfect Secret (2019)

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos. ...

Goliath96 (2019)

In her desperate longing for sympathy and understanding, a single mother tries to get back in touch with her grown-up son, who locked himself up in his room since two years. She doesn't sense that she runs the risk of loosing him forever. ...

Magnificent Times (2018)

A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day... ...

Forget About Nick (2017)

Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband's ex-wife when he disappears without a trace. ...

Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)

A bank robber becomes a teacher after being released from prison and finds himself at the center of a number of crazy adventures. ...

High Society (2017)

Two girls from very different social backgrounds discover, at the age of 25, that they had been switched at birth. ...

Tödliche Geheimnisse - Jagd in Kapstadt (2017)

Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corpora ...

Deadly Leaks (2016)

Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is ready to report on the background negotiations on TTIP. But as soon as the explosive interview begins, Romm ...

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 ...

Text for You (2016)

Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the deceased boyfriend of Clara, who continues to send text messages in order to cope with the loss. When Mark's ...

Emma nach Mitternacht - Frau Hölle (2016)

Emma Mayer works as a presenter for a radio station. In her show 'Emma after midnight', she listens to the concerns of callers. She discovers that Katharina Holl, who is about to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter during the construction of an indoor ...

Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln (2016)

Emma Mayer is a psychologist and advises people in crisis situations. She works at a radio station in Mannheim and does her best to provide callers with help and support. When a hostage-taker calls her during a broadcast, her expertise and improvisation ar ...

Too Hard to Handle (2016)

It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although h ...

Freundinnen - Alle für eine (2016)

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems. ...

Wer hat Angst vor Sibylle Berg? (2016)

With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Sibylle Berg - celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist known for her provocations and the sharpness of her comments - takes the film's two directors on an anecdotal and humorous foray through her eventful l ...

Look Who's Back (2015)

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon. ...

Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation. ...

The Misplaced World (2015)

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, ...

Mon cher petit village (2015)

Nuclear engineer Antoine Degas must convince the small town of Saint-Lassou to host a storage site for radioactive waste. But the town's German mayor, a fierce ecologist and organic farmer, is steadfastly opposed to the idea. ...

Coming In (2014)

Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay. ...

Die Fahnderin (2014)

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased a CD containing files from a Swiss bank. It contains files on more than 800 tax evaders. However, there is not enough tax investigation staff to process all the cases before the statute of limitations expir ...

Kleine Schiffe (2013)

Mid-forties Franziska is pregnant. Instead of looking forward to it, her husband Andreas opens up that he separates from her because he can no longer endure her neurotic control rage. As much as Franziska always wanted a child, as a single parent she sees ...

Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration. ...

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. ...

Verratene Freunde (2013)

Two married couples, in their mid-40s, have been friends for a long time. Until one husband believes he has to bring an indiscretion to the public about the other and the respective life plans and moral concepts are called into question. Matthias Brandt, B ...

Baron Münchhausen (2012)

In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories. ...

Clarissas Geheimnis (2012)

18-year-old Stella lives with her mother Clarissa on a picturesque lodge in the South African bush. When Clarissa one day died in a tragic car accident, the young woman makes a surprising discovery: Obviously, her mother was not a South African, but the da ...

The Weekend (2012)

Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. ...

Lost in Siberia (2012)

Matthias Bleuel, a logistician of a german mail order company is send to Kemorovo in Siberia to teach some russian subsidiary company the german work flow system. But soon this land changes him and everything for him. ...

Turkish for Beginners (2012)

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in ...

The Foster Boy (2011)

Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accor ...

Pigeons on the Roof (2011)

Youssef's falafel are the bestseller. Unfortunately, his small snack bar on Berliner Sonnenallee lacks the required splash guard. The meticulous Peggy of the Public Order Office knows no mercy: The desperate Lebanese has to close the shop, but then the unl ...

Die fremde Familie (2011)

When her 80-year-old father Robert needs a caregiver after an accident, Ira wants to take care of him at home - despite her difficult relationship with him. He had left her and her mother to start a second family. But now she sees the opportunity to approa ...

Life Is Too Long (2010)

No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she ...

Die Grenze (2010)

Germany in the near future: the economic situation has deteriorated dramatically, the social mood is simmering and the political camps are becoming more radicalized. Chaotic conditions are driving people onto the barricades and into the arms of the extreme ...

Volcano (2009)

When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents. ...

Romeo und Jutta (2009)

Jürgen Stoll is not only a Filou and life artist, but the darling of many women. When the marriage swindler is given the choice, prison in the GDR or a career as "Romeo" in the FRG, he decides to go to the West. Stoll now plays in the big game of secret a ...

Up! Up! To the sky (2008)

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as ...

Runaway Horse (2007)

Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this di ...

Shanghai Baby (2007)

Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art scene, sex, literature and the writing of her first novel. Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn wh ...

Life Actually (2007)

Inner chaos breaks free in two families. ...

Blood and Chocolate (2007)

A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man. ...

My Führer (2007)

Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting ...

I Am the Other Woman (2006)

Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ... ...

Die Diebin & der General (2005)

Because of shoplifting and property damage Jessie Fischer, a single mother with a rather big mouth, is sentenced to charitable work in a nursing home. There she meets Walter Voss, known as the General. The fate of the grumpy pensioner, who was disenfranchi ...

A Witch's Kiss (2005)

The young witch Karla learns everything she needs to know about witchcraft from her teacher Miranda. When she tells her that her father has been cursed with a devilish curse, but that Karla can redeem him by making a pact with the devil, the young witch is ...

Rock Crystal (2004)

The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are married. In her husband's town Susanne has to put up with daily harassment by the locals, which also extends ...

Der Job seines Lebens 2 - Wieder im Amt (2004)

Shortly before the election, Prime Minister Achimsen has a heart attack. Double Erwin Strunz has to step in. While the politician is treated in hospital, Strunz establishes a policy for the little people... ...

Agnes and His Brothers (2004)

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer ...

Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls (2004)

Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year. No camping, no white-water rafting, ...

Rosenstrasse (2003)

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah ...

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. ...

Der Job seines Lebens (2003)

Externally, they could be twins. But really only outwardly: the unemployed, disillusioned toolmaker Erwin Strunz and the dynamic, power-infested Prime Minister Uwe Achimsen. There's the inevitable confusion - and everyone thinks Erwin is for Prime Minister ...

Bibi Blocksberg (2002)

Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death. While her mother Barbara, a witch of flesh and blood herself, is very proud of her daughter, father Bernhard, overworked and stressed, disapproves ...

Nobel (2001)

This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, in a blazing Maserati. He is accompanied by Alessandro, a young journalist whose job is to interview him along the way. Personal and generational dynamics ar ...

Goebbels und Geduldig (2001)

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to him that his rival Heinrich Himmler is the mastermind and that he has also hidden a double of the propagand ...

Desire (2000)

An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing. ...

Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999)

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the wom ...

Long Hello and Short Goodbye (1999)

The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break. What Melody doesn't know is that Kahnitz and Ben are connected by a dark chapter in their past, and Melod ...

Männer sind wie Schokolade (1999)

Linda Lano loves her job in an advertising agency and she also loves the men. But most men think of them as machos, as does charming big business Mike Badon. She expresses this bluntly and thus puts the success of their agency on the line. The widowed Mike ...

Verführt - Fatal Online Affair (1999)

Changing jobs and changing boyfriends - until now, the beautiful Sonia has cheated her way through life. She found the support she needed with her sister Karin. But then Karin doesn't return from a supposed business trip. Sonia sets off with her dog Bigfoo ...

Else – Story of a Passionate Woman (1999)

The lively Else does not allow herself to be restricted by the Jewish traditions that are intensively cultivated in her family. ...

Macht (1998)

Just under two weeks before the election, a party's leading candidate is kidnapped, and a large ransom is demanded. When the party provides the money but the handover by its chairman fails, a sinister suspicion begins to take root among those involved. The ...

The Harmonists (1997)

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish. ...

The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking. ...

The Pharmacist (1997)

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams ...

Bandits (1997)

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws. ...

Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996)

On a mission of mercy, Jennifer Hart is in Germany to donate bone marrow to Maximilian, a young leukemia patient. Following the operation, she plans to spend a romantic anniversary in Munich with her husband Jonathan. The bone marrow clinic's director, Pet ...

Dangerous Dowry (1996)

Ella is just an ordinary cab-driver in Berlin, Germany. One day she meets Aleksej, a young Russian guy, who offers her DM 100.000 should she decide to marry him formally. Ella first delays answering, but when she finally decides to do it, it is too late. W ...

Angst hat eine kalte Hand (1996)

Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she can't remember anything. Crime officer Kim Ossawald is the only one who believes the nurse. The track leads them to the t ...

Talk of the Town (1995)

Comedy about a woman who hosts a radio talk-show who turns thirty and worries about not having a husband. With the help of her gay brother, she places an personal advert in the local paper and meets a charming dentist. Unfortunately, she finds out he is ma ...

Nur über meine Leiche (1995)

A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has deprived of their faith in love. ...

Küß mich! (1995)

Paula knows exactly what she wants to do after her studies. She wants to marry her long-term boyfriend Michael, start a family and earn money. Her only problem is her fountain pen kleptomania. She compulsively takes her writing instruments everywhere. Duri ...

Deutschlandlied (1995)

This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the war in 1945. For some it is salvation, for others total collapse, but for everyone it is a confrontation with the American liberators and occupiers. ...

Heaven and Hell (1994)

11-year-old Nina and her mother Birgit move to the countryside. But while Birgit seems to cope very well with the upheaval, the shy young girl only feels accepted when she joins a girl guide group. Nina's new teacher for Religious Education, the organizer ...

Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a ...

Das gläserne Haus (1994)

A dream becomes a nightmare: Shortly after the Iranian doctor Murath Tehrani and his German wife Claudia moved into a chic villa on the outskirts of Leipzig, threatening couple flutter into the house and Claudia is harassed by anonymous callers with xenoph ...

Making Up! (1993)

An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggl ...

Ein Mann für jede Tonart (1993)

Vocal soloist Pauline is caught between a rock and a hard place. While her career is finally taking off and she should be putting all her energy into her profession, her private life is becoming increasingly chaotic. Two men, both charming and loving: no w ...

Other Circumstances (1992)

A sailing school teacher is pregnant and does not know which of three friends the father is. ...

Die Distel (1992)

Since her parents death, hobby-detective Trudi lives with her young aunt Julia. When a nearby Turkish restaurant is smashed one night, everybody assumes by default an act of racism. Trudi however did notice a strange guest named Mangold there the day befor ...

Salz für das Leben (1989)

Short film by Rainer Kaufmann ...

Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle (1988)

Old scholar realizes he has wasted his life in vain trying to find a deeper meaning of life. He sells his soul to the devil to get a second chance at life. ...

Sommer in Lesmona (1988)