Marianne Sägebrecht

A Whole Life (2023)

When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, bringi ...

The Muckles - The Quest for a New Home (2022)

Once upon a time, the Mucklas could be found everywhere. But in an increasingly tidy world, the cheerful goblins have a hard time, since they love disorder more than anything. Soon the last tribe will have to leave their home. For generations, the little c ...

Silence (2020)

Inspired by a few youngsters in a coffee bar talking about aging, a busy man sinks into the idyllic surrounding of a lake. At this place the man seems to have turned into an old Gentleman who lingers and enjoys life at that unique spot. His thoughts and en ...

Schmucklos (2019)

Opening a pub in a dusty dump with virtually no choice. Only one drink, only one dish and only one song. Does that sound like a good idea? In Munich, the city with gastronomic abundance? Probably not. Nevertheless, two casual acquaintances have exactly thi ...

Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House (2018)

The old man Petterson is trying to sleep but his cat Findus is keeping him awake, so they both agree that Findus shall have his own house. ...

Erik & Erika (2018)

Erik(a) Schinegger – the ski star who became a media sensation. Erika was hailed as a champion skier, until a sex test determined that she was a he – and Erik was rejected and accused of fraud. A story based on real life, a tale about nature and the ta ...

Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever (2016)

Pettson and Findus find themselves snowed in their house. The little cat is scared that Christmas is ruined, but Pettson promises that they will celebrate "the best Christmas ever". ...

Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus (2014)

The Circle (2014)

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe. ...

Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship (2014)

Old farmer Pettson gets a kitten from his neighbour Mrs Kosonen and calls the cat Viiru. When Viiru starts to talk, the two become inseparable friends. ...

Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen (2012)

Germany's most popular punk rock band "Die Toten Hosen" ("The dead pants") celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2012. In his film "Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen" ("Nothing but the truth - 30 years Die Toten Hosen"), established documen ...

Omamamia (2012)

Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood's idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of "her own age". But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the P ...

Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder (2012)

Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow hu ...

So ein Schlamassel (2010)

Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois fa ...

Frau Holle (2008)

A widow has two daughters. Louise, lazy she spoils and Marie who dutifully and eagerly helps her mother around the house. One day Marie falls into the well and wakes up on a flowery meadow in a land of dreams, where even bread and apple tree can talk. ...

Immer Wirbel um Marie (2008)

Marie runs a bookshop in Torgau with a great deal of idealism. As business is not going well, she has taken a job as a seamstress in a toy factory. The future of this traditional business is not looking good either, as the company has been sold to a large ...

Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest (2007)

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival. ...

Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester (2007)

Antonia Wiedemann has built a new life for herself after the painful divorce from her husband Ludwig. In her animal boarding kennel in the countryside, she looks after everything that creeps and flies. Veterinarian Dr. Rafael Hansen even entrusts her with ...

Bezaubernde Marie (2007)

The kind Marie Meyer always has an ear for the worries of others. When she meets Tommy, a boy with asthma whose mother died in an accident, she becomes his fairy godmother. ...

Charlotte und ihre Männer (2005)

Marga Engel gibt nicht auf (2004)

Marga Engel, the likeable and self-confident cook, has built up a new life for herself with a lot of energy and love: she works as a cook and "financial manager" in a children's home, whose little residents have taken the shrewd woman very much to their he ...

Großglocknerliebe (2004)

Johanna, a librarian who was recently abandoned by her partner, has stopped her car at a railroad crossing to end her life. She caught her boyfriend in the act—with her best friend, of all people. Car mechanic Uwe shares Johanna's fate; he has been left ...

Marga Engel kocht vor Wut (2003)

Marga Engel, a soulful woman, has been a member of the household of shrewd estate agent Siegfried Ohrmann for a year, where she is indispensable thanks to her patented recipes for body and soul. As a woman of principle, Marga has already fought a battle or ...

Marga Engel schlägt zurück (2001)

Marga Engel, a cook in a Bavarian country inn, has had a little house built with money she inherited. But the topping-out ceremony ends in disaster. Marga has been robbed of her house by the fraudulent building company Ohrmann. But someone like Marga Engel ...

Scheidung auf amerikanisch (2001)

Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt (2001)

Again and again the lonely Mikki wanders through the night to recognize himself for a few moments. He finds light and courage again through the encounter with the toilet attendant Veronika. ...

Without Family (2000)

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famou ...

Am Ende siegt die Liebe (2000)

Out of love for her mother, Anna Linke takes the blame for a fatal accident caused by her daughter Lilli and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Lilli makes a career as a model, but suffers from strong feelings of guilt. When Anna is released and moves in with her, ...

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord (2000)

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but hi ...

Santa's Secretary (1999)

Motherless Céline writes a letter to Santa Claus asking her father to pick her up from hospital and take her home for good. Her letter ends up with the good-natured Marlène, who has a special heart for children. The loving Marlène finds ways and means t ...

Ganz unten, ganz oben (1999)

Elli is a divorced bank cashier who could live in settled circumstances, if it were not for her character. She is a soft-hearted gentle person who cannot say no, even when it comes to financial issues. Never thinking of herself, she always help others, eve ...

Ich wünsch Dir Liebe (1999)

Insensitively, the doctor teaches his patient Katja the terrible truth. The young woman has a brain tumor, she still has six months to live. ...

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar (1999)

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar ...

Spanish Fly (1998)

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove h ...

Left Luggage (1998)

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him ...

Eine Frau nach Maß (1998)

And Suddenly Everything Was Different (1997)

Soleil (1997)

During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother. ...

Lorenz im Land der Lügner (1997)

Eleven-year-old Lorenz ends up on a strange island: everything here is upside down. Pears are called apples, dogs meow, cats bark and people wish each other goodbye, hopefully never to see each other again. ...

The Ogre (1996)

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany. ...

Katrin und Wladimir (1996)

All Men Are Mortal (1995)

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress. ...

Luise knackt den Jackpot (1995)

Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a millionaire overnight; she cracks the lottery jackpot. Luise and her daughter buy a villa with a butler f ...

Il piccolo lord (1995)

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibe ...

Beauville (1995)

Tragicomedy about a man who hears he has got one more week to live and who brings his two water turtles to the sea to set them free. ...

Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn (1994)

Erotique (1994)

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by four female directors. ...

Mona Must Die (1994)

Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, Rachel, a struggling estate agent. Only one thing stands in their way - Mona, Eddie's tyrannical wife who helped Eddie when he was still a recent immigrant, ...

Mr. Bluesman (1993)

Spike is a musician who, has additional income, smuggling stolen cars. He is also called Mr. Bluesman because he loves the blues more than anything. One day he is supposed to smuggle a Mercedes-Benz into Genoa . However, he gets the wrong car that belongs ...

The Milky Life (1993)

Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger. ...

Dust Devil (1992)

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker. ...

Martha and I (1990)

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who ...

Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (1989)

The War of the Roses (1989)

Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato cau ...

Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Inter ...

Moon Over Parador (1988)

Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees o ...

One Day (1988)

A woman, whose origin and destination are unknown, walks from morning until evening through the streets, going past the crazy things of life (from the modernization of the data processing of dogs to the rationalization of the length of spaghetti), and she ...

Bagdad Cafe (1987)

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic spark ...

Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure (1987)

A decadent Cabaret in Hamburg is near closing down. The owner decides to make a last effort to save the place: produce a male striptease show. Many candidates answer to his newspaper ad. No matter how weird were the rehearsals, the owner would have no regr ...

Herz mit Löffel (1987)

Sugarbaby (1985)

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor. ...

Ein irres Feeling (1984)

Tina, Julie and Alfa simply turn the tables on love: they don't wait for the guys to come on, they throw themselves into the action when they meet the bowling clique around Tim, Freddy and Rolf. Although their goal is actually only the bowling competition ...

Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984)

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant. ...

The Swing (1983)

Based on Annette Kolb's autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Cathol ...

C.O.D. (1981)

Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as endorsers for the bra line. Silly antics and situations occur as he ...

Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt (2001)

Again and again the lonely Mikki wanders through the night to recognize himself for a few moments. He finds light and courage again through the encounter with the toilet attendant Veronika. ...