Peter Roggisch

Sass (2001)

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, t ...

After the Truth (1999)

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is as ...

Totalschaden (1998)

Mein Kind muss leben (1998)

Rosenzweig's Freedom (1998)

When Michael Rosenzweig, a working-class German Jew, is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice in the face of a brick wall of prejudice. ...

Zu treuen Händen (1995)

The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA) in the town of Altenburg in Thuringia. The company is ailing. The (corrupt) officer in charge at the THA wants to close the company and give the property t ...

Einfach nur Liebe (1994)

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Schtonk! (1992)

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life for ...

Spider's Web (1989)

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a ...

Jäger der Engel (1988)

A detective disillusioned with life takes a young male prostitute under his wing and is able to give his own existence meaning again. ...

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives. ...

The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974)

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the ...

Eduard IV. - Der Krieg der Rosen (1971)

Alma Mater (1969)

A Jewish professor returning from U.S. exile watches his Berlin university descend into militant ideological coercion during the 1968 reform struggles and ultimately decides to leave Germany again. ...

Marija (1969)

Der Kampf um den Reigen (1969)

Sabina Englender (1968)

Drei Schwestern (1966)

Zeitsperre (1965)

Im Schatten des Krieges (1963)

The Elder Statesman (1962)

Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. ...