Michael Schweighöfer

Dear Thomas (2021)

Thomas Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England in order to move to the young GDR with his family at the beginning of the 1950s. His father Horst is primarily interested in helping to build the new German state. But Thomas prefers to realize ...

Wir sind die Rosinskis (2016)

Peggy Rosinski lives in a shabby neighborhood in Frankfurt/Oder. The patchwork mom has three children, but only one of them is from her current husband Torben. She also works two different jobs to make ends meet and reduce her mountain of debt. Meanwhile, ...

Zwei verlorene Schafe (2016)

What happens when an ambitious but unsuccessful actress in the middle of her life coaches a young, not a bit ambitious and equally unsuccessful pastor? ...

The Manny (2015)

Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them. ...

Inspektor Jury - Der Tote im Pub (2014)

Nemez (2013)

Right out of jail, Dima tries to make a new beginning in Berlin, Germany. But his past holds him back. His criminal associates continue to rely on Dima and his father wants to take his family back to their native Russia. Only the relationship with art stud ...

Break Up Man (2013)

BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future "ex"-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted ...

Schmidt & Schwarz (2012)

3nity (2010)

Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer. ...

Das Hemd (2010)

Wedding reception. Men's restroom. Two men squeeze into one of the cramped stalls. Walter and Markus—father and son ... ...

Haus und Kind (2009)

Bernd Neubauer is a pleasant man in his mid-40s - he plays away five or six years effortlessly. But the two women in his life put him in strange situations. Or in desperate ones. It seems it's not the professor who's putting up with a waitress, but she's p ...

Monogamie für Anfänger (2008)

Felix, now in his late twenties, always knew that he would get married at some point. Now he is convinced that he has found the woman for life in his long-time girlfriend Fabienne. But no sooner has he persuaded Fabienne not only to marry him, but also to ...

Teenage Angst (2008)

At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course of time ...

Die Verlorenen (2006)

Eine zweimalige Frau (2004)

Successful lawyer Rebekka Butt has no other explanation for the photos in the tabloid "Sonne", which allegedly show her in spicy situations in the red light district. The pictures appear in the middle of her election campaign for senator of justice. An ext ...

My Sweet Home (2001)

Berlin, A Polterabend (i.e. a party on the eve of a marriage) is taking place in a café. An American has persuaded his German friend to marry him, after just one month of knowing each other. But while Anke has decided to create a family for her and her ba ...

Otto - The Disaster Movie (2000)

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and per ...

Outside Time (1995)

Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the fall of the Wall. The film is set in a small town somewhere in Brandenburg, a place which is rapidly falli ...

Haus Herzenstod (1992)

Selbstversuch (1990)

Television film based on a short story by Christa Wolf. ...

Der Mantel des Ketzers (1989)

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht. ...

Mit Leib und Seele (1988)

Seventeen-year-old apprentice Jonas, struggling with his ailing, proud father, pours himself into restoring a decaying ship on a Mecklenburg lake. Neglecting all else, he loses his girlfriend and support at work. After the boat burns, a reconciliatory voca ...