Mark Zak

Cicadas (2025)

The story of a friendship between two dissimilar women: On the one hand, single mother Anja, who tries to keep herself and her daughter afloat with various jobs. On the other, Isabell, who looks after her parents in need of care and whose relationship with ...

The Investigation (2024)

Peter Weiss' monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, ...

The Fox - Game Over (2023)

High school graduate Max Höfel arrives at the Fuchs & Kilali detective agency distraught: his girlfriend Leonie has been run over by a car and the police believe it was a hit-and-run accident. Max, on the other hand, believes it was murder and hires the t ...

Dr. Hoffmann - Die russische Spende (2022)

Urgent call from the clinic: Not for the first time, Dr. Felix Hoffmann the comfortable TV evening for use in the emergency room. He spontaneously takes over the night shift for a colleague. The ward doctor has no idea what consequences the next few hours ...

Luz (2021)

The young Colombian Luz gets a coveted position as a housemaid with a diplomatic couple. Finally, she will earn enough money to support her family in Bogota. Arriving with great expectations in faraway Germany Luz discovers a dark abyss behind the perfect ...

Never Look Away (2018)

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime. ...

Der Anfang von etwas (2018)

Anne Hoppe, who works as a meteorologist at the Maritime Weather Office in Hamburg, has been mourning her husband Harry for a year. This died on New Year's morning when a container ship sank. However, his body was not found. At a memorial service, Anne thi ...

Bagage (2016)

The young Russian Leonid Zaharov tries to flee to the West via the GDR at the end of the 1980s. When he is bounced and there is no way forward, he looks back. Does he give up everything for freedom or does his happiness lie at his back? ...

Bridge of Spies (2015)

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. ...

Stereo (2014)

Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word 'scoundrel' tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going wel ...

Der Tunnelraub von Berlin (2013)

Mantrailer - Spuren des Verbrechens (2013)

Mord in Eberswalde (2013)

Heinz Gödicke is the chief commissioner of the People's Police in the small town of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. Gödicke is called when two bestial murdered children are found in the forest. The investigator tries to get involved in the perpetrators - a ra ...

Cop vs. Killer (2012)

Enigmatic Dutch crime lord Mirko is always a step ahead of the national police team. When Mirko's gang are forced to kill Russian mob baron Jegor's cousin Oleg, the cops hope their time has come. Both sides resort to dirty tricks, testing loyalties and usi ...

Hotel Lux (2011)

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comin ...

Der Mann mit dem Fagott (2011)

Bremen, 1891. Udo Jürgens' grandfather Heinrich strolls thoughtfully about the Christmas market. For days, the young man has suffered a momentous decision: should he emigrate to America or seek his fortune in Moscow? The touching performance of a street m ...

Wunderkinder (2011)

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war. ...

Grandmother (2011)

An immigrant family wants to bring grandmother's ashes to Germany, in a cookie jar. But they did not expect the conscientious compliance of German customs officials at the airport. ...

Der Uranberg (2010)

1947: the Russians have uranium extracted from the newly founded SAG Wismut mine in the Ore Mountains. Among the miners is Kurt, who has become an enthusiastic communist while a prisoner of war in Russia and therefore hates his father, a convinced Nazi. Ku ...

The Tourist (2010)

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye. ...

Bingo (2010)

Der gelbe Satin (2009)

Die Frau aus dem Meer (2008)

A female corpse is washed up on the beach in Husum. Her fingertips were removed, and a piece of paper with a cell phone number was found in her throat, which belongs to the well-known political journalist Karl Kress. ...

Speed Racer (2008)

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. ...

Hitman Zero (2008)

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Beautiful Bitch (2007)

The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibling she is taken to Germany, concealed in the trunk of a car. There she is trained as a thief, picking the ...

Fay Grim (2007)

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe- ...

When Darkness Falls (2006)

A gripping and intense thriller about honour, loyalty, and the courage to fight for what you believe. ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

Der Stich des Skorpion (2004)

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in togethe ...

Don't Look for Me (2004)

Everything was taken away from her, even hope. She left with no choice - to die or to become a murderer. The brutality has made her impregnable. Despair ravaged her soul. Now, death has become her job ... ...

Hotte in Paradise (2003)

Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitu ...

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. ...

Mr. Boogie (2000)

A comedy directed by Vesna Jovanoska. ...

Meine beste Feindin (1999)

Two mismatched women are on the run from gangsters and must help one another to survive. ...

Pola X (1999)

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends. ...

Doppelpack - Das Duell (1999)

Mafia, Pizza, Razzia (1997)

A pizza baker orders his listless driver to deliver pizzas. The order has been placed by two policemen who are monitoring a property. They plan the big coup by taking the money from the gangsters under surveillance themselves and absconding. The gangsters ...

Follow Me (1989)

A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and ...