Markus Hering

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 ...

Relativity (2019)

The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down. ...

Test of Courage (2016)

During WWII, a bunch of children, with 11-year old Anton and his younger brother Rudi in the middle, meet up at a wall at the cemetery. They regularly have tests of courage. As it is Rudi's turn, he makes his way, armed with a knife, to the grave of a chil ...

Looping (2016)

Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an energetic, honest and erotic bond. This takes them to a point where their hopes may be fulfilled… in very dif ...

Ellas Entscheidung (2016)

Ella and Marcus Herlinger desperately want to have a child. But Ella is a carrier of the incurable hereditary disease Duchenne, which her twelve-year-old nephew Lennart already has. Without the knowledge of her older sister Johanna, Ella tries to get pregn ...

Heidi (2015)

Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a shel ...

Der Liebling des Himmels (2015)

The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual assault. Magnus is also struggling with blackmail: a stranger has stolen his diaries, which reveal his innermos ...

Rough Road Ahead (2015)

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love. ...

Everything is Love (2014)

Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany. ...

Finsterworld (2013)

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred. ...

GrossStadtklein (2013)

A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin. ...

Finn und der Weg zum Himmel (2012)

Ameisen gehen andere Wege (2011)

After his father committed suicide, Richard decides to stay in a youth center rather than staying with his mother. There, he finds a bizarre bunch of teenagers. Each of them experienced pain from early on, having their own desires and fighting for happines ...

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 ...

Whiskey with Vodka (2009)

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local a ...

Silent Resident (2008)

At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound. ...

Die Slupetzkis - Urlaub wider Willen (2008)

The Slupetzkis are completely impoverished—their former neighbors, the Taubers, have become rich through inheritance. The Slupetzkis earn the money for their economic fresh start in a posh wellness hotel. When the Taubers unexpectedly show up, honor dema ...

Die Slupetzkis - Urlaub in Balkonien (2008)

Everyone can see that the Slupetzkis live in luxury. What their neighbors, the Taubers, don't see is that they are broke. So the Slupetzkis only pretend to go on their ostentatiously announced prestigious vacation and instead hide in their villa. But there ...

Forever Never Anywhere (2007)

History professor Baisch, his depressive and tablet-addicted brother-in-law Anzengruber and a manic cabaret artist have a car accident on a remote country road after a party. Wedged between two trees they get stuck, doors and windows can no longer be opene ...

The Disease of Youth (2007)

Visions of Europe (2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors. ...

Der Bestseller - Wiener Blut (2004)

Just when bestselling author Leo Leitner was awarded an Austrian literary prize, a mysterious death overshadowed the pompous event. His host Hofrat Lassnig-Schiele may have a hand in it. Charming and funny 'Vienna' episode of the successful crime series! C ...

Land`s End (2004)

After a 15-year absence, a 30-year-old architect returns to his grandmother's village to fulfill her wish for an urn burial. ...

Wenn Weihnachten wahr wird (2003)

Ten-year-old Lena has been looking forward to Christmas for weeks. But three days before Christmas Eve, she falls onto the ice while ice skating and falls into a coma. Her distraught mother Marie spends day and night at her bedside. Two months later, Lena ...

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. ...

Liebe zartbitter (2003)

After the dashing Bavarian Lena Mayerhofer catches her future husband having a fling with her bridesmaid, she flees to Berlin to take over her Aunt Käthe's long-established bakery. Her gay friend Donald is there to give her advice and support. ...

Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit ...

Probieren Sie’s mit einem Jüngeren (2000)

Anna Haslböck, writing as Karina Norden, hires young drummer Nicolas Auer to pose as her lover and boost sales for her new book on dating younger men. Nicolas, recently dumped by a girlfriend influenced by Anna's advice, reluctantly plays along while Anna ...

Liebestod (2000)

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Hirnschal gegen Hitler (2000)

Gloomy Sunday (1999)

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then fea ...

Charm's Incidents (1996)

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures. ...

Tollgate (1994)

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty s ...