Ronald Kukulies

The Investigation (2024)

Peter Weiss' monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, ...

Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik (2024)

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be looking up. The workers want their fai ...

Before It Ends (2023)

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance ag ...

Till the End of the Night (2023)

The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to win the trust of a criminal through a fictitious relationship with Leni. However, the feelings are not just a game. ...

Wo ist meine Schwester? (2022)

Locked in Society (2022)

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before th ...

Future Is a Lonely Place (2021)

Frank, a man without a criminal record, attacks a money transporter and then turns himself in to the police. His behavior is a mystery. In prison he meets the unscrupulous and suspicious Arab Fuad, who is protected by his clan. To get closer to Fuad, Frank ...

Ein Mädchen wird vermisst (2021)

Kids Run (2021)

Andi's life is a constant battle for his home, his three children and the woman he still loves. He only has two weeks to pay her back the borrowed 5,000 EUR. When he loses his job, an amateur boxing tournament looks like the only solution. ...

The Fox - Hunting Season (2021)

The wife of the Düsseldorf Police Council Rainer Bachmann is kidnapped. While trying to save his mother Monika, the adult son is shot dead. His widow Nicola desperately seeks support. ...

Louis van Beethoven (2020)

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconvent ...

Die Toten am Meer (2020)

Young detective Ria Larsen is faced with the question of how serial killer Wernicke, who is imprisoned in a psychiatric ward, instructs brutal murders on the Husum coast. The bodies in the dunes point to a copy killer. During the investigation, Ria suddenl ...

Die Spur der Mörder (2019)

Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? (2019)

This is the story of an ambitious man who aims high and is determined to make a lot of money with the help of his, well, creative understanding of art. This sketchy satire deals with the rise and fall of art consultant Helge Achenbach from Düsseldorf, who ...

The Most Beautiful Couple (2019)

While two young teachers are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast they are overwhelmed by a sudden attack. Back home, they try to deal with the trauma in their own ways until a surprising encounter changes everything. ...

Kühn hat zu tun (2019)

Martin Kühn has work to do - and a lot of it. As an inspector, dealing with murders and kidnappings is his bread and butter, but when these crimes happen almost on his doorstep, even the experienced police officer is not left cold. ...

So viel Zeit (2018)

Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. ...

Balloon (2018)

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to bui ...

Transit (2018)

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband. ...

In the Lighthouse (2018)

One night at a German pub can bring you philosophic arguments about being a machine, the difference of Indian and African elephants and gambling addiction. ...

Jetzt.Nicht. (2017)

After losing his job as a marketing officer, Walter, a workaholic in his forties, finds himself in an existential crisis and takes on the identity of another man. ...

Shelter (2017)

Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two wome ...

Atempause (2017)

The story of Esther (40) and her ex-husband Frank (42). Their nine-year-old son Hannes is declared brain dead after a soccer accident. From one second to the next, the parents lose their child. Nothing could have prepared them for this moment. They now hav ...

In Times of Fading Light (2017)

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown. ...

Toter Winkel (2017)

Master hairdresser Karl Holzer has his own hairdressing salon, has been happily married to his wife Elsa for many years and his beloved granddaughter Nora also contributes to his idyllic life in a small German town. However, when his son Thomas, Nora's fat ...

Goster (2016)

Über Barbarossaplatz (2016)

After the suicide of her husband and practice partner Rainer, psychologist Greta Chameni's life is turned upside down. She feels guilty about Rainer's death. And she is completely undecided about how to deal with her husband's patients. ...

Ein Mann unter Verdacht (2016)

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusati ...

The General Case (2016)

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes ...

Unverschämtes Glück (2015)

"Committed, citizen-oriented, competent" - Mayor Johannes Größt wants to win over voters with this slogan. But his poll ratings are poor. Größt is stressed, overworked and neglecting his wife Erika. Then disaster strikes: Größt has a car accident and ...

Weak Heart Drop (2015)

The story follows a number of protagonists who are hiding from truths or escaping them, lying to each other in a circle of deceit. Meanwhile therapy patients offer glimpses of truth that underscore the increasing web of lies whose consequences will eventua ...

As We Were Dreaming (2015)

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall. ...

We Monsters (2015)

A husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime committed by their teenage daughter. ...

Momentversagen (2014)

Der Fall Bruckner (2014)

Katharina Bruckner, 50, has to deal with many serious cases in the youth welfare office. Even at home she is under stress: Her husband, a surgeon, she sees arm in arm with a younger. And her daughter, who has to go to Marrakech for work, quickly incurs her ...

Männertreu (2014)

Georg Sahl, one of the last major newspaper publishers with liberal-conservative quality standards, is offered the position of Federal President by the Mayor of Frankfurt. His wife Franziska, a successful divorce lawyer, is initially not very happy about t ...

Neufeld, mitkommen! (2014)

Nick Neufeld was abused by some classmates, and a judge sentences the main offender to 120 hours of gardening. All good? No: mother Beate sees that Nick is skipping school out of fear and withdrawing more and more. She wants the perpetrators to be expelled ...

Du bist dran (2013)

Peter (39) has slipped into the role of the houseman over the years, because his wife Elisabeth (42) is traveling a lot for work and he takes care of the children Robby (15) and Laura (8). Peter learns that Elisabeth wants to go to Africa with her family. ...

Measuring the World (2012)

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths. ...

Bittere Kirschen (2012)

The death of a woman can not just bring a wide range of emotions to her daughter and her childhood-friend, but also represents an inexorable journey into the past through memories. Two different points of view about living the consequences of WWII. ...

The Blender (2012)

Vater Mutter Mörder (2011)

Early in the morning, Tom Wesnik is driving home from a party with his wife Esther. At the entrance to their home village of Sarezin, they are confronted by an unsettling sight: A police roadblock blocks their way, patrol cars and fire engines line the mai ...

Tom Atkins Blues (2010)

The Spaetkauf (Late Night Shop) has been at the heart of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and an integral part of people's daily lives for over 13 years. A place to meet and hang out, local bar, grapevine, a place to buy anything you might need out of hours. A place ...

Tango im Schnee (2009)

Ella Talbach lives a settled, middle-class life alongside her husband Manfred, who is currently campaigning for re-election as mayor. On her 60th birthday, her granddaughter Lili arranges a surprise visit from the Viennese musician Franz, of whom she only ...

Lenz (2009)

Lilys Geheimnis (2009)

Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help. ...

Unschuld (2008)

Mondkalb (2008)

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again ...

Land`s End (2004)

After a 15-year absence, a 30-year-old architect returns to his grandmother's village to fulfill her wish for an urn burial. ...