Manfred Zapatka

Who We Were (2021)

A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future. ...

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless (2021)

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path- ...

Todesengel (2019)

In "Death Angel", Jakob Ziemnicki's film adaptation of the novel "Walküre" by Craig Russel, Peter Lohmeyer alias Jan Fabel does everything possible to eradicate his most bitter flesh as an investigator: the Hamburg chief commissioner once again chases one ...

Wir wären andere Menschen (2019)

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben". ...

All My Loving (2019)

Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that ...

Fast perfekt verliebt (2019)

Two very different groups of guests are waiting for the bride and groom outside the registry office in St. Pauli. Engineer Isabel and ex-convict Ivo have an unusual connection. After a stroke, Isabel's father Ernst needs care. Isabel meets Ivo by chance an ...

The Collini Case (2019)

A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case. ...

Südstadt (2017)

One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything ri ...

Your Children (2016)

Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found. ...

Dead Man Working (2016)

The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's he ...

Twice New Life (2016)

A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident. ...

Tiefe Wunden (2015)

Die Lichtenbergs - zwei Brüder, drei Frauen und jede Menge Zoff (2014)

One of them is a cab entrepreneur with a Berlin snout, the other an ambitious politician in a fine suit - and the dissimilar twin brothers Jochen and Christian Lichtenberg haven't spoken to each other for a long time. Now they are both in trouble: gambler ...

Besondere Schwere der Schuld (2014)

Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and the bodies could not be found. After being released from prison, he returns to his hometown. People there tre ...

Der Tote im Eis (2013)

In den besten Jahren (2011)

40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vani ...

The Forgotten (2011)

Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns a ...

Die Zeit der Kraniche (2010)

In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and ...

Den Tagen mehr Leben! (2010)

A dream comes true for Anne Bruckmann when she travels to Denmark with her husband Norbert to visit the sperm whale grounds at the North Cape in Norway. But then, shortly after arriving in Sønderborg, Denmark, a serious argument breaks out - with the resu ...

Die Lüge (2008)

Financial advisor Nadja Trenkler and housewife Susanne Lasko look like twin sisters. When they happen to run into each other in the elevator one day, Nadja suggests to her doppelgänger that they occasionally switch places for a fee. ...

Die Weisheit der Wolken (2008)

Autopiloten (2007)

On the highways of the Ruhr region, the paths of four people cross as they try to fulfill their long-lost dreams. One of them is Georg, the coach of a Bundesliga soccer team that has to win that evening's cup match if he wants to keep his job. He is about ...

Tod einer Freundin (2006)

When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third victim of a serial killer ...

Eden (2006)

Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him ...

The Free Will (2006)

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his ...

Offset (2006)

The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary. ...

Das Schneckenhaus (2006)

Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura. ...

Hamburg Lectures (2006)

The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi delivered in January 2000. ...

Wigald (2006)

Poet Wigald plans a meticulous suicide, but his estranged father interrupts, seeking reconnection as his marriage crumbles. During their tense conversation, Wigald collapses and is rushed to intensive care. In his hospital room, the fractured family reunit ...

I Am Guilty (2005)

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anon ...

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: ...

Mord am Meer (2004)

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of ...

Nightsongs (2004)

A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits. She comes back - but not alone. ...

The Puppet Grave Digger (2003)

In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect. ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Bis ans Ende der Welt (2002)

Elephant Heart (2002)

Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd Hermsbach, ...

The Friends of Jesus: Thomas (2001)

When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples decide to leave Jerusalem quickly, but Thomas refuses to ...

Judas: Close to Jesus (2001)

Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides to have Jesus arrested as soon as a suitable opportunity presents itself. Judas is delighted by the recepti ...

Double Pack (2000)

Naive, talkative Hoffi and mouthy Lehmi are as different as can be. But this doesn't dampen their friendship. When they wake up one morning in the middle of Dortmund Zoo instead of in their beds among the water buffaloes, it doesn't upset them, because the ...

Manila (2000)

Due to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd was quite mixed, ranging from a cultivated eastern German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolonged, more and ...

Erkan & Stefan (2000)

Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, ...

Das Himmler Projekt (2000)

Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS generals by Heinrich Himmler on the 4th of October, 1943 in the Golden Hall of the Posen Palace. ...

Der Schandfleck (1999)

Annas Fluch - Tödliche Gedanken (1998)

In a vision, the pianist Anna witnesses a murder. ...

Frankfurt Millennium (1998)

While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter. ...

Tränen eines Siegers (1995)

A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his meteoric rise, but loses sight of his familiar surroundings and falls in with the wrong friends. ...

Shiva und die Galgenblume (1994)

Gabriellas Rache (1994)

Das Schicksal der Lilian H. (1993)

A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ... ...

Ebbies Bluff (1993)

Rudy actually wanted to become one of the greats as a boxer - but when he gets knocked out again and the money is so tight that he has to drive out eggs, he listens to his friend Ebbie and tries his hand as a musician. When Ebbie finds the super wire to hi ...

The Last U-Boat (1993)

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, th ...

Nervenkrieg (1993)

Roses for Africa (1992)

A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep ...

König Lear (1992)

Success (1991)

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accu ...

Ex und hopp – Ein böses Spiel um Liebe, Geld und Bier (1991)

The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property. Markus Keller, head of a push column , supports Hartholz in his criminal machinations. ...

Drunter und drüber (1990)

Ruth lies to her husband Karl about visiting her sister to sneak away with her lover Andreas. Meanwhile, Karl invites colleague Daniela over. Their plans collapse when robbers Schelling and Kramberg pose as TV technicians, tying up Andreas and hiding Danie ...

Der Rausschmeisser (1989)

The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life. ...

Torquato Tasso (1985)

TV recording of a production of the play of the same name in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

Die Spur der anderen (1985)

Consistency Is Key (1983)

Utopia (1983)

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him c ...

Addressee Unknown (1983)

A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man. ...

Egmont (1982)

Brussels, 1568: Under Spanish rule, Regent Margaret of Parma seeks leniency, but King Philip II sends the brutal Duke of Alba. Beloved noble Egmont ignores warnings to flee, trusting in mercy. Alba arrests and executes him, and Egmont's death becomes a ral ...

War and Peace (1982)

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A collage of documentary and dramatised sequences dealing with such topics as overkill, peace demonstrations, N ...

Preußische Nacht (1981)

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 ...

Das Ende der Beherrschung (1977)

Sociology student Elisabeth befriends 17-year-old Carmen, who needs an abortion. Drawn into Carmen's fierce world, Elisabeth accompanies her to Bottrop and then Amsterdam. In Berlin, Elisabeth's partner Wolf grows jealous as their bond deepens. When Carmen ...

Zoff (1972)

It was a "cult" movie when I watched this movie in the theater in germany in 1971. "Siggi" played by Giulia Folliana had some very funny and original lines. Still a teenager in the early 70's, I was a big fan of hers. She should have made way more movies l ...

Sparks in Neu-Grönland (1971)

Trilltrall und seine Brüder (1965)

Das Lamm (1964)