Maren Eggert

Gavagai (2026)

On the set of a turbulent shoot of a Medea adaptation in Senegal, Maja seeks solace in a love affair with her co-star Nourou. Months later, they meet again at the film's premiere in Berlin. Old feelings resurface, but a racist incident unsettles their reun ...

The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024)

Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen's parents' house. Karen's sister Jule travels with her family to Markus' birthday party. While Karen takes everyone's breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a fr ...

Icebergs (2024)

One night, in the darkness of a numb city, Theo is confronted with his own fragility. ...

Not a Word (2024)

On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak's formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon. ...

Die Unsichtbaren (2023)

The film follows the career of detective inspector Marianne Atzeroth-Freier through the Hamburg police force of the 80s and 90s. At the end of the 70s, Marianne is 30 years old and a single parent; she becomes one of Hamburg's first female police officers. ...

I'm Your Man (2021)

Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed t ...

Giraffe (2020)

A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again. ...

Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau (2019)

Head of the famous pencil corporation tries to make his 16 year old granddaughter ready to take his place. ...

I Was at Home, But... (2019)

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life. ...

Das Leben vor mir (2018)

25 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the USA at the time, she is now returning and wants to live in the former common house, which puts the relationship between Cornelius and Frank to the test. ...

The Invisibles (2017)

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible. ...

The Dreamed Path (2017)

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no ...

Die Klasse - Berlin '61 (2015)

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as border crossers who live in East Berlin but commute to the West every day come together for lessons every day. Afte ...

On the Beach (2015)

Laura and Clemens spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course of a few days the couple gets entangled in their lie, revealing the emptiness of their relationship. ...

Eltern (2013)

Christine and Conrad are what we call modern parents nowadays: While he stays home to raise children, she makes a career as a doctor, earning big money. When Konrad with comes home with the offer to act as a theater director again, organizing the day-to-da ...

Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze (2011)

Life gets on Erol Ozak's nerves. The enforcement officer is supposed to collect something from people who have nothing. And suddenly there's a bag of money, a dead person, then the money is gone again and the melancholy man from the tax office has a bag of ...

Amigo - Dead on Arrival (2010)

Two BKA investigators fly to Italy to arrest the ex-RAF terrorist Amigo Steiger, who has gone into hiding there. The arrest ends in bloodshed. Steiger escapes and travels to Hamburg to find out who betrayed him... ...

Orly (2010)

At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband's break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured ...

Die Räuber (2009)

Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet (2008)

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and their t ...

The Vow (2007)

1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in ...

Die Frau am Ende der Straße (2007)

Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt star in this drama about a family, trying to start a new life, which fails because of the mother's mental disease. After a difficult time, Martina and Stefan Schneider move into their new house. Although the couple and thei ...

Marseille (2004)

A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city. ...

The Experiment (2001)

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the ...

The Queen – Marianne Hoppe (2000)

Werner Schroeter's lovely and touching portrait of the great German actress Marianne Hoppe, whose career spanned from the glory days of the Weimar era through the Nazi years to a postwar return to the stage in Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and experimen ...

Two Women, Two Men (1998)

Nick and Charlotte are a married couple. As both are more than busy earning money, there is no time for love or sex - only Tuesdays. Soon, Charlotte finds a lover, Luis, who is an unsuccessful, married artist. He and his wife Eva also have no time for sex, ...