Michael Kind

Akiko, the Flying Monkey (2025)

The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. ...

Urlaub mit Mama (2018)

Andrea actually wanted to spend a nice weekend in Italy with her brother Martin and her mother Helga. But when Martin abandons her shortly before departure, she sets off to Verona alone with her mother, to whom they had given the trip as a present for her ...

Wolfsland – Irrlichter (2018)

Schwarzbrot in Thailand (2017)

Ottmar hands his Hamburg bakery to daughter Janina, retiring after 40 years with his wife to compatriot Beinle's fancy seniors residence in Pattaya, Thailand, which also provides private nursing as required. She waited decades to enjoy free time, exploring ...

Full Moon (2017)

Lara was severely traumatised as a child and every day this trauma catches up with her. During a photo session, she falls in love with Conrad, a writer who has just been released from prison. What Conrad doesn't know is that everyone around her knows the b ...

Lucky Loser (2017)

With Mike it's anything but round: flat away, job a one-way street, and to make matters worse, his little loser heart still beats for ex-wife Claudia. ...

Hermanos e hijos (2017)

Fucking Berlin (2016)

Sonia breaks the perhaps most exciting time of her life, because the 20-year-old moves to Berlin for a mathematics study. Once there, she soon began to build up a new circle of friends, and then she fell in love with the kind, but irresponsible Ladja. Ther ...

Platonow (2015)

Heil (2015)

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ...

Siebenschön (2014)

When she was a child, Ludmilla was the treasure of her parents, She worked, sewed, washed, and spun as much as seven ordinary people, and Ludmilla was "As Pretty as Seven." But on account of her pretty face, everybody stared at her; and, as she did not li ...

Dust On Our Hearts (2013)

Kathi is 30 years old, a single mother and a luckless actress who is regularly turned down at auditions. While Kathi doesn't know how to get her life on track, her mother Chris is a successful psychoanalyst. Chris doesn't take her daughter's career choices ...

Sushi in Suhl (2012)

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise f ...

Offroad (2012)

Meike has had enough of a comfortable life and ventures out on a risky off-road adventure in a jeep she bought at auction. ...

Artists (2011)

"Artists" tells the fateful stories of eight young people behind bars who hope for nothing more than freedom and the simple desire to be normal again. ...

Mörder kennen keine Grenzen (2010)

While searching for a serial killer in Berlin's tunnel system, investigator Maik Brunner is hit by a subway train. He wakes up in hospital - in the GDR, in 1984! Lieutenant Kempe is already waiting for him - she is working with him on a series of murders v ...

Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten (2009)

After a few years working like intern, Till, eventually becomes head of his own company, job counseling for young trainees. In turn, comes Sydelia, left-wing activist, idealist and combative. Their paths will soon cross youth. She is determined to start it ...

Die Entbehrlichen (2009)

Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage. ...

Hoffnung für Kummerow (2009)

Kummerow - a small town somewhere in Germany. Young people are moving away, jobs are scarce. Oskar Kubiczek, mayor, pub owner and optimist, is fighting for his town and fighting for his wife. A Bavarian company wants to invest in the region and a consultan ...

Unschuld (2008)

Prager Botschaft (2007)

In September 1989, more and more GDR citizens fled to the West German embassy in Prague. Among them were Stefan and Bettina, who were spending their honeymoon in Czechoslovakia. When Stefan briefly returns to the GDR to fetch their young son, he also bring ...

Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung (2006)

Die Kette (2006)

The Cloud (2006)

DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated. ...

Liebe auf vier Pfoten (2006)

When her partner Erik has to cancel the holiday, lawyer Claudia Schmitt decides to travel alone to Lusatia. There she meets Mark Berner, who rents holiday cottages in the area. At first, the two are not sympathetic. But as Claudia run towards two little ly ...

Downfall (2004)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve ...

Dornröschens leiser Tod (2004)

Kleinruppin Forever (2004)

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth. ...

Der Aufstand (2003)

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet ...

Die Datsche (2003)

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Pigs Will Fly (2003)

A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood. ...

Weg! (2002)

A 16 years old boy from Germany runs away from a boring birthday party and follows a few graffiti artists to the station. When police arrives he escapes in a train and gets over the border to the Czech Republic. There he meets a wild Czech girl and falls i ...

Der tote Taucher im Wald (2000)

Shortly before his retirement, provincial detective Hartwich has more mysteries to solve than in his last 20 years of service put together: First, the charred body of a man in a diving suit is discovered after a forest fire, but the nearest lake is miles a ...

Hat er Arbeit? (2000)

The shipyard in Boizenburg is where welder Karl and his friends and relatives work. Rumours about the traditional company's financial difficulties are circulating, but the young people are initially unfazed. However, the effects of the shipyard crisis are ...

Picknick im Schnee (1999)

Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld has betrayed him and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Deeply depressed and desperate, he rents a ho ...

Freiwild (1998)

Das Böse (1998)

Zwischen den Feuern (1997)

Irrlichter (1997)

A television reporter and the subject of a scientific experiment to investigate the sense of time underground fight for survival inside a natural cave system after a landslide blocks the exit. ...

Amerika (1996)

A drama about a east german village called 'Amerika'. ...

Wer anhält stirbt (1996)

Two couples, one from West Berlin, the other from East Berlin, are stranded in the vast plain of an abandoned military training area in Brandenburg after a car accident. Their search for help leads them on an increasingly threatening odyssey through a Stas ...

Krücke (1993)

The turmoil of the last days of the war. 13-year-old Tom loses his mother while on the run. In Vienna he meets the one-legged black marketeer 'Krücke' - a sly, cunning survivalist and at the same time an adorable, kind friend. The two find shelter with Br ...

Im Sog der Angst (1992)

The Tango Player (1991)

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the p ...

Versteckte Fallen (1991)

Claudia and Georg Rattey, a married couple, have everything what people in their mid-thirties might wish for: a car, a farmhouse for vacations on the weekends, and their son Oliver. But their contentedness does not turn into happiness but into an inner voi ...

Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen (1990)

From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop "Hamlet/Maschine" amid East Germany's peaceful uprising. Actors help organize the November 4, 1989 Alexanderplatz demonstration. After the wall falls, artists split b ...

Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes (1989)

1523. The Protestant theologian Thomas Müntzer is entrusted with the pastorate by the 'Allstedt Council'. On the one hand, he is to open people's minds and hearts to more freedom, and on the other, he is to serve as an ally against the count. ...

Reunion in Travers (1989)

The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife Corinna Harfouch. Radical writer Uwe Kokisch, Corinna's lover, hopes to find a way of ...

Zum Teufel mit Harbolla (1989)

Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the young GDR is blooming: Engelhardt's career, the socialist state, the black market, and maybe even a chance ...

Kai from the Box (1988)

Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town. ...

Die Bestie (1988)

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the notorious tsarist governor Muratov, also known as "The Beast", symbolizes the crimes of the time. During filming, an old, decrepit man comes forward ...

Wengler & Sons (1987)

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer's son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally ...

The House on the River (1986)

1942. The members of the Voß family, mother, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and a son-in-law, are living in a house at the river. A fellow soldier of son Paul, who fights at the eastern front, delivers his greetings and an embroidered Russian blouse fo ...

A Wigwam For The Storks (1985)

In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest. When they join the funeral procession afterwards, the stork has just return ...

Martin Luther (1983)