Roland Schäfer

Three (2010)

Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the ...

Mikado (2008)

Frieda , a therapist, is cheated by her husband Daniel. He makes love with Dorothea. Dorothea is wedded to Philip. Philip has an affair with his scholar Maggie. Maggie is in love to the florist Michael. Michael is married with Barbara. Barbara has a lover, ...

The Man from the Embassy (2007)

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also brings with it suspicion, corruption and violence. ...

Lilly unter den Linden (2002)

This film is the story of a 13-year-old girl from Hamburg who, after the death of her mother, wants to travel to her aunt Lena and her family - her only living relatives - in Jena. Crossing the inner-German border in 1988, even from West to East, is very d ...

Ich pfeif auf schöne Männer (2001)

Linda is a successful art director, but not only her career but also her bad experiences with men have left her lonely. Linda's gay colleague Donald is her best "friend," but at the moment he needs help himself. He is in love with the agency boss Peter Kö ...

Paths in the Night (1999)

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure. ...

The Waiting Time (1999)

When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the events which led to the assault. ...

Der große Abgang (1995)

The young and ambitious prosecutor Gudrun Lambert has a big fish on the hook: Axel Bode. The notorious hitman has already confessed to four murders. But he stubbornly refuses to name his client. However, Lambert wants more than just Bode's conviction. She ...

Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet (1993)

At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything indicates that the chairman of the board is guilty. ...

Ein Mord danach (1993)

Verlorene Landschaft (1992)

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician, but thirty years ago he had fled from his home and parents in the East to seek a new life in the West. The re ...

The Rose Garden (1989)

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer. ...

Reunion (1989)

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time ...

Drei Schwestern (1986)

Betrayed (1985)

A "film-noir" on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the dec ...

The Axe of Wandsbek (1982)

1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh off ...

Esther, voorgoed op reis (1975)

TV movie based on the clearing of the Jewish psychiatric hospital "Het Apeldoornse Bosch" on 23 January 1943. ...