Rainer Sellien

Bones and Names (2024)

Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs ...

Schlepper - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

Geburt der Drachenfrau - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

Friedhof der Welpen - Der Usedom-Krimi (2023)

Am Ende einer Reise - Der Usedom-Krimi (2022)

Police sergeant Holm Brendel follows the trail of prominent Swedish crime writer Arvid Johansson in Ystad. Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow accompanies Holm on the private trip. On the ferry back to Usedom, she meets Dana Driest, a native of Poland. S ...

Schneewittchen - Der Usedom-Krimi (2022)

School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. She discovers a dead teenager under a steep cliff: Theo Jacobsen, a pupil at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knew Theo from commercial school, where sh ...

Gute Nachrichten - Der Usedom-Krimi (2022)

The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead woman's husband, the equally well-know ...

Jessy (2022)

13-year-old Jessy can hardly remember that her father Miro used to be an important part of her life. His unexpected return after seven years in prison and his intrusion into the safe space she and her mother have built severely disrupts their symbiotic rel ...

Rumspringa (2022)

During a trip to Berlin, a young Amish in the middle of a rite of passage reconnects with his roots, explores other ways of life, falls in love — and faces a big decision. ...

Flügel aus Beton (2022)

A pupil at Gabrielle's comprehensive school takes her own life. It soon becomes clear that there is more to her death than just a young woman's lonely decision. ...

Blue Noise (2022)

A closely observant film about bodies and touching, proximity and distance and the power of attraction. The aloof Alex works in a training workshop for craftsman where he avoids the attempts of his girlfriend to get close to him physically. At the same tim ...

Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret. ...

Der lange Abschied - Der Usedom-Krimi (2021)

Ulf, Eva and Renate, all in their seventies, are partying hard during a camping trip in Poland. The next day, Ulf, confused and distraught, is found by hunters at the edge of the forest. He believes he has killed someone. ...

Ungebetene Gäste - Der Usedom-Krimi (2021)

There is a fire on Usedom: Karin Lossow's thatched-roof house is on fire. She manages to escape from the house at the last moment with Ellen Norgaard's help. Karin has suffered smoke inhalation and is immediately taken to hospital. ...

Men's Room (2021)

The door slams shut behind him, the goal is clear: he urgently needs to pee. If only it weren't for the others and the way they look at him. The noise, the pressure, the self-consciousness. A journey from the urinal to the cubicle. ...

Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi (2020)

Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi (2020)

Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi (2019)

Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon (2019)

After the success of the first film "Die Informantin", which delighted over 5.5 million viewers, the story of the undercover law student Aylin is now being told. She actually doesn't want anything to do with the LKA. But she has no choice. In "Der Fall Lis ...

Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi (2019)

Geisterschiff - Der Usedomkrimi (2019)

Winterlicht - Der Usedom-Krimi (2019)

Hingabe (2018)

Julia and Franz meet in a laundromat, and Franz vows to protect her. One summer night, they're mugged by three young men. Franz is held back while the leader whispers something to Julia. Though friends dismiss it, Julia knows Franz failed to protect her. H ...

Die Braut vom Götakanal (2018)

Gloria, die schönste Kuh meiner Schwester (2018)

Apart from a loose affair with the traveling feed salesman Gerd, the life of Brandenburg farmer Jutta consists only of work - and her cow Gloria. Gloria is a magnificent cow, the most beautiful in the whole of Brandenburg. Now Jutta plans to make her Miss ...

LOMO: The Language of Many Others (2018)

Karl, a 17-year-old boy who spends most of his time collecting pictures and videos for his blog, finds a new purpose when he falls in love with his fellow student Doro. ...

Billy Kuckuck - Margot muss bleiben! (2018)

Seizing poisonous snakes or rescuing an environmental activist from a threatened tree—Mainz bailiff Billy Kuckuck handles these tasks with enthusiasm and competence. But cases such as the eviction of 80-year-old Margot Kühlborn, who has to move out of h ...

Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2017)

A family drama about a German teenager who leaves home totally unexpectedly to join the ranks of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in its armed struggle. When the boy's father and older brother set off on an adventurous journey to the Syrian border, they ma ...

Nebelwand - Der Usedom Krimi (2017)

A homeless is injured in a fire on a yacht docked, Julia discovers that earlier the ship was involved in an accident where a couple was murdered but their son survived, then she wonders if he's returned to the island to avenge his parents. ...

Trugspur - Der Usedom Krimi (2017)

Participants in an illegal car race are surprised by police and try to flee, during the escape a young man is run over and dies. Former prosecutor is driving with the son of a friend when, suddenly, a car comes directly in front of her. ...

Engelmacher - Der Usedom-Krimi (2016)

High season on Usedom. Sophie Thiel has accepted a holiday job and waits tables in the café on the Heringsdorf pier. She becomes friends with her young Polish colleague Jadwiga Gryn. After work, they make their way home together on their bikes. Shortly af ...

Mayday Relay (2016)

When the german sailor Max and his daughter Emily receive a mayday-call on the Mediterranean sea, they act immediately: They change the course of the little sailing-boat and try to involve other ships. ...

Schandfleck - Der Usedom-Krimi (2015)

A supermarket operator from Ahlbeck (Usedom) is found dead, naked, in the spa gardens of neighboring Swinemünde in Poland. Inspector Julia Thiel and her Polish colleague Marek Wozniak are investigating together. Only initially does everything look like a ...

Wer Wind sät (2015)

Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff determine in the environment of a wind turbine company and their opponents - each of which has its own motive. A storm of revenge, greed and betrayal brews together. ...

Der Pfarrer und das Mädchen (2015)

Blindgänger (2015)

Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a power plant. In the process, he discovers a girl who had previously come to the city in a minibus full of ...

Bella Amore - Widerstand zwecklos (2014)

Der Schmetterlingsjäger (2014)

A reflective cinematic essay intertwines philosophical dialogues—between a filmmaker and philosopher—episodes from Vladimir Nabokov's life and literature, and imaginative reconstructions to probe the very texture of time. ...

Remains Quiet (2013)

An afternoon on a large film set somewhere in rural France, A runner takes up position... ...

Liebe am Fjord - Abschied von Hannah (2012)

After the death of his wife, respected writer Henrik Agdestein won't let anyone get close to him, neither the kind-hearted teacher Sonja nor the feisty policewoman Laura. And certainly not top politician Leif, whose homosexuality he disapproves of. ...

House in the Lake (2011)

"House in the Lake" takes a look on an oppressive and intimate family. We follow the holidays in their remote summer house, the every day and the fragile normality, where the three kids absorb and partially channels the emotional energies of their parents. ...

Bermuda Triangle North Sea (2011)

Strange things are happening around the Hallig Nordersand: ships are reported missing, numerous seabirds lie dead on the beach. While some locals remember the legend of the witches' hole in the North Sea, others suspect an impending natural disaster or the ...

The Good Neighbor (2011)

The budding friendship between two very different neighbors takes a tragic turn when David runs over a young woman and causes her death. At Robert's insistence David leaves her lying and flees. While Robert hopes his new neighbor will now be irreversibly b ...

Unknown (2011)

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is. ...

Lollipop Monster (2011)

Ari and Oona go to the same school. Lolita-like Ari, is blonde, pouting and lives in a world of bright colours, frustrated by her mother still treating her as a child, while arty Oona dresses in black and is treated as an adult by her artist father. When O ...

Der Mann aus der Pfalz (2009)

A docudrama about Germany's former chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose 16-year tenure during the 80s and 90s included the reunification of the country after the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...

Transatlantic (2009)

Two couples on either side of the Atlantic share a mysterious connection. ...

Shadow Kids (2008)

This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When Stephanie's siste ...

Messy Christmas (2007)

A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

And Along Come Tourists (2007)

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herol ...

Fjorde der Sehnsucht (2007)

Measures to Better the World (2005)

A mockumentary in 8 episodes: new solutions and thinking models, which will be with us in the near future and make the world a little more livable. An "active health insurance", in which the insured directly take over everything including medical activitie ...

Hunger auf Leben (2004)

Delphinsommer (2004)

June Moon (2002)

JUNIMOND tells the tragic-romantic story of Paul and Nele, two loners who rediscover a lost faith in the power of love. The two of them have nothing to lose and risk everything... ...

Icke (2001)

Icke wants a wife, not a Russian bride, but one who is always there for him and who will sometimes make him a fried chicken. But Icke is illiterate, a secret he keeps well. In his last hope, he calls a crisis counseling service. When he hears the voice of ...

Three Chinamen with a Double Bass (2000)

After a night of partying, Paul finds the body of his girlfriend in their shared apartment. Even his best friend Max believes he killed her in a drunken stupor. Nevertheless, he takes action to make the corpus delicti disappear - with a bone saw and a grai ...

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 ...

Hostile Waters (1997)

Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation. ...

My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister, throwing the trio into chaos. ...

Hölderlin-Comics (1994)

Second part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel and Otto Sander in cast. ...

Sweethearts (2026)

Suse and Ulla are happy together. They live in the country with Ulla's son Karl and enjoy the summer. One day Tom comes by. Tom is Suse's ex - and he is on his way to a rehab clinic. But over the course of the morning it becomes clear: Tom is not yet reall ...