Michael Wittenborn

Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke (2026)

Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric gr ...

Chaos and Silence (2025)

As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide with landlord Klara's enigmatic breakdown. Accepting her offer of rent-free living, they embark on a surreal journey, encountering societal judgments and f ...

Greetings from Mars (2024)

A young autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interest in space missions, he considers his grandparents land an isolated planet. ...

Spirit in the Blood (2024)

After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they believe killed her by embracing their own dark nature. ...

Merz gegen Merz - Geheimnisse (2024)

The Merz exes are back. Anne discovers that she has a half-sister who has been hidden from her for years. And her name is also Anne, and she's a much better version of Anne. ...

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen (2023)

When the animal keeper Birgit gifts her daughter Sarah a parrot, the joy is great. While Sarah is teased at school because of her speech impediment, the parrot provides her with a sense of security. But when the parrot suddenly begins to constantly spout N ...

Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten (2023)

Simply Nina (2023)

Born in the wrong body? A child rebels. 8-year old Nina is confident and fun-loving. She's convinced that a mistake was made at her birth: she was born a Niklas. Nina plucks up her courage and informs her family that she has always felt like a girl and wou ...

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Fron ...

Die Luft zum atmen (2022)

Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her professional goals. When Miriam gets pregnant, everyone is shocked. When her lungs malfunction, it is a race ...

Auf dem Grund (2022)

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli's mother, Anne's sister Miriam, who fears Anne's strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother's 65th birthday, old secr ...

And Tomorrow the Entire World (2021)

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene ...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane. ...

Da kommt noch was (2021)

At the latest when Helga crashes through the floor of her living room, she realizes that she is stuck. It's been two years since her husband left her for another woman, but she's still angry and hurt. Everything changes when her cleaning lady goes on vacat ...

Curveball (2021)

Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested ...

Das Gesetz sind wir (2020)

Maja Witt and Klaus Burck have been a well-rehearsed team for years, ensuring law and order as police officers in Bremen. At least that's what they try to do. Time and again, however, they are shown their limits. Criminals are set free again, and they them ...

Irgendwann ist auch mal gut (2020)

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn't going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to conv ...

The German Lesson (2019)

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality. ...

Hartwig Seeler – Gefährliche Erinnerung (2019)

The missing person case of a young woman leads Seeler to a Croatian island to a mysterious connection that uses hypnosis to treat people with mental trauma. The investigator experiences for himself how dangerous "false" memories that feel "real" can be whe ...

Wie gut ist deine Beziehung? (2019)

Steve has been with Carola for five years. But then Steve has to watch as his friend Bob is left out of the blue by his girlfriend, who turns to the much older tantra teacher Harald. Steve begins to have doubts: Is Carola really happy with him? Steve, alre ...

In My Room (2018)

Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He's not really happy, but can't picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared. ...

Unterwerfung (2018)

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and pol ...

Du bist nicht allein (2018)

When Eva returns to her house on the day of her divorce, she finds a bouquet of red roses outside the door. Attached is the note: "You are not alone." The sender is anonymous. ...

Gefangen: Der Fall K. (2018)

For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her husband wants to stop these windy business, she separat ...

Dinky Sinky (2018)

Frida wants a baby. But although she forces her boyfriend to follow a strict fertilization regimen, she's not getting pregnant. Just when she's about to resort to artificial means, her boyfriend dumps her. Suddenly, she's missing the most important pregnan ...

The Carlos Benede Story (2017)

Carlos Benede is in his thirties, single and helps minors cope with the after-effects of crime. Alexander is a strong-willed and precocious eleven-year-old, who witnesses the horrific death of his mother by his own father. Benede mentors Alexander and the ...

Happy Burnout (2017)

An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic. ...

Hans im Glück (2016)

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the sto ...

Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)

On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence's lavender fields, but her husband won't budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spirited teacher Alexander and classmates Mehmet, Richard, Simon, and Miriam, learning life as much as lang ...

Wellness für Paare (2016)

A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of ...

Nie mehr wie es war (2016)

Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic cla ...

Toni Erdmann (2016)

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes. ...

Die Hochzeit meiner Eltern (2016)

Zweimal lebenslänglich (2015)

Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's a mistake. But in a trial marked by circumstantial evidence, Sebastian is tried, convicted and sentenced to ...

Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf (2014)

A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise. ...

Bis zum Ende der Welt (2014)

Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used to be a neighborly neighborhood, is gradually threatening to turn into a social hotspot: the streets are d ...

Beloved Sisters (2014)

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer. ...

Wir sind die Neuen (2014)

Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons. ...

Stromberg – The Movie (2014)

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Capitol-Insurance" is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the possib ...

Superegos (2014)

Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and ...

Halbe Hundert (2013)

At the centre of the comedy 'Halbe Hundert' ('half of hundred') stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn't fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them s ...

The Case of Jakob von Metzler (2012)

If Not Us, Who? (2011)

In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose fir ...

Ihr mich auch (2010)

Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007)

Yella (2007)

A young East German woman leaves her controlling husband/business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her. ...

A Friend of Mine (2006)

An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends. ...

Außer Kontrolle (2005)

Sterne leuchten auch am Tag (2004)

September (2003)

Couples and families in the days after September 11, 2001. All relationships become complictaed, but only one of the four nested stories surrounding a German who condemns the attack, and her husband, a Muslim who advocates it, offers approximate a discussi ...

Mostly Martha (2001)

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, L ...

Die Sekretärinnen (1998)

Nine secretaries dream of life and love musically while typing around. ...

Second Sight (1982)

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical compan ...