Rainer Piwek

Mord oder Watt? Ebbe im Herzen (2023)

Größer als im Fernsehen (2019)

From a new beginning! Only after she has inherited the inheritance does Lisa realize that her deceased father's inn is heavily in debt. Her only way out: a holiday park, at whose investor she could sell the inn. But to build the park, he would also need th ...

13 Uhr mittags (2018)

Olaf Gabriel is the head of the department and at the same time the only employee of the police station in Hedly, a small northern German coastal town. He has quit his service and waits at the station for his successor. But instead of the replacement appea ...

Am Ruder (2017)

Michael Schröder is the owner of a fitness studio that is not running. His marriage to the aristocratic and wealthy lawyer Elisabeth also only exists on paper. She lives out her love affair with lover Cornelius openly, but a divorce is unthinkable for Eli ...

Frau Pfarrer & Herr Priester (2016)

Rieke Schmidt is the pastor of the Protestant congregation of Nazareth Church in Munich-Bogenhausen. The unconventional minister is fully absorbed in her job, which is especially hard on her 19-year-old daughter Leonie. She has traveled to Munich from Hels ...

Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)

Sabine Waldmann is a special person. Her world is different to that of most people because she has Asperger's syndrome. Numbers and fixed structures give her a sense of security and no one can fool her when it comes to memory. Personal interaction with oth ...

Täterätää - Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf 2 (2015)

In order to renovate the damaged church on the border between the hostile villages of Oberriesling and Unterriesling, the residents set off together in a coach to faraway Hamburg under the leadership of the Häberles and Rossbauers. There, they want to win ...

Frau Roggenschaubs Reise (2015)

Ein Sommer in Amsterdam (2014)

Ein offener Käfig (2014)

Robert Dühring is a respected businessman and lives with his fiancée in a small town in Baden. His brother Georg is a convicted sex offender. Robert has been in denial about Georg for years, but now that his prison sentence and preventive detention are o ...

Papa auf Probe (2013)

Moritz Kaiser, good-looking single from passion, enjoys the carefree life in the fast lane. The successful chief designer of a furniture company lives in a luxury apartment and drives a thick sports car. The tide turns when he is fired after an affair with ...

Life Is Not for Cowards (2013)

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus' attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can't let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her feelin ...

Weihnachten … ohne mich, mein Schatz! (2012)

When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of marriage. Although Christmas is just around the corner, she quickly moves into the apartment of the young taxi ...

The Case of Jakob von Metzler (2012)

Fischer fischt Frau (2012)

All is no longer right with the world in East Frisia. The weatherproof crab fishermen who take their boats out into the North Sea every night are fighting for survival. In these times of globalization, the North Sea crabs travel thousands of kilometers to ...

Nägel mit Köppen (2012)

Pastor Petersen is threatened with the loss of his parish and thus also his office: The parishes of the villages of Norderup and Toestrup are to merge, but the stuffy neighbors are bothered by the fact that Petersen and his girlfriend are living in a wild ...

380.000 Volt - Der große Stromausfall (2010)

Catastrophic power outage in Berlin. Poorly maintained grids, greedy power companies and corrupt politicians are to blame. The result is riots and looting. Can senior engineer Anja Radke save the day? But then she comes under suspicion of being involved in ...

Traum aus Schokolade (2010)

Die Auflehnung (2010)

Ein Dorf sieht Mord (2009)

Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand (2009)

Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the borde ...

Ein Strauß voll Glück (2009)

After the death of her husband, Anna tries to begin a new life with her children Paul and Laura on the North-Sea island Amrum. An ostrich-farm is the smart business-idea, which secures her family's future. As merchandising and to inspire her prospective cu ...

Das tapfere Schneiderlein (2008)

Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the castle ...

Herz aus Schokolade (2008)

Valerie Cornelis has inherited a house in Bruges. The only thing Valerie associates with this city is chocolate. And Valerie hates chocolate! But in Bruges, she reflects anew. She has actually set out to sell the unknown legacy of her deceased mother as so ...

Der Tote in der Mauer (2008)

During demolition work in a village in northern Germany, a cemented-in corpse is discovered in the wall of a building. The autopsy leads the pathologist to conclude that the man suffocated in the cement. The identity of the dead man comes as a surprise to ...

Die Lüge (2008)

Financial advisor Nadja Trenkler and housewife Susanne Lasko look like twin sisters. When they happen to run into each other in the elevator one day, Nadja suggests to her doppelgänger that they occasionally switch places for a fee. ...

Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet (2008)

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and their t ...

Fast ein Volltreffer (2007)

Giulia is an attractive, self-confident young woman. She works for her father Lorenzo in the family-owned Trattoria da Lorenzo in Hamburg's Neustadt district. The trattoria is the business premises, meeting place and living room of the extended Italian fam ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester (2007)

Antonia Wiedemann has built a new life for herself after the painful divorce from her husband Ludwig. In her animal boarding kennel in the countryside, she looks after everything that creeps and flies. Veterinarian Dr. Rafael Hansen even entrusts her with ...

Der blinde Fleck (2007)

A policeman leads a well-ordered life with his wife and 18-year-old daughter. The apparent idyll is abruptly shattered when the daughter is linked to the murder of two police officers, both colleagues of the father. While the daughter remains resolutely si ...

Brief eines Unbekannten (2005)

Das geheime Leben meiner Freundin (2005)

Weihnachten im September (2003)

Christa Seeliger is proud and happy to work as a secretary for the boss of the traditional Hamburg company Hansecker, because his chocolate factory is famous for having invented the smiling chocolate Santa Claus. It would never occur to her that her boss w ...