Rolf Illig

Sehnsucht nach Sandin (2002)

The young Hubertus von Saatlow is planning his engagement to a designer and hopes for a career in business. But a visit to his family's ancestral castle in Mecklenburg changes everything. Suddenly Hubertus has fallen in love again - with Sandin Castle and ...

Der bayerische Übervater - Zum Andenken an Gustl Bayrhammer (2002)

Das gestohlene Leben (2000)

Das Tal der Schatten (1999)

Rosamunde Pilcher: Magie der Liebe (1999)

Melanie Sheffield visits her childhood friend Sarah Rudd at her estate. After her arrival she meets the mysterious Ben Fox. Melanie feels magically drawn to the attractive Ben. Ben also seems fascinated by Melanie, but behaves distantly. When the two final ...

14 Days to Life (1997)

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail ...

Mobbing: Die lieben Kollegen (1995)

Transatlantis (1995)

In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the help of a young female student, sets out across the Himalayas to find the lost island of Atlantis. ...

Bitte habt euch wieder lieb (1995)

In dieser Stadt daheim (1994)

Four stories set in the city of Regensburg. ...

Das Grau des Himmels (1993)

Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be a dangerous psychopath who is wanted by the police. The woman is torn between her emotions and what she should ...

Salt on Our Skin (1992)

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refus ...

Der kleine Prinz (1990)

A pilot crashes his plane in the desert, in the middle of the night. There is no one in the vast distance. Suddenly, a miraculous figure of a child emerges from the darkness - "The Little Prince". He asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Now there are two of ...

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Aust ...

Waller's Last Trip (1989)

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood ...

Der Mann im Salz (1988)

Herschel and the Music of the Stars (1986)

Not far from Windsor Castle, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn visits the German astronomer Friedrich W. Herschel in the summer of 1792. But what begins as an informal afternoon ends in disaster for Haydn: his traditional world view is shaken by Herschel' ...

Alpine Fire (1985)

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expen ...

Peaceful Days (1984)

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a utopia of freedom and love. ...

Martin Luther (1983)

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Martin Luther followed his calling and became an Augustinian monk in Erfurt. However, his life in the monastery confronted him with his fears of a judging God. These were finally taken away from him throu ...

The Swing (1983)

Based on Annette Kolb's autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Cathol ...

Céleste (1981)

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait ...

The Guardian and His Poet (1978)

About the life of writer Robert Walser. ...

Die Ameisen kommen (1974)

Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly ...

Handicapped Future (1971)

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA. ...

Die schwarze Sonne (1968)

Die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie (1967)

Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel. ...

Protocol of a Revolution (1963)

The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state. ...

Bodega Bohemia (1962)