Siegfried W. Kernen

Toilet Stories (2015)

Five toilets - five stories! This pitch black comedy relentlessly illuminates the darkest corners of society, thereby revealing a colorful potpourri of human perfidy. The five intertwined episodes are staged in the manner of an intimate play, occasionally ...

Vaterjagd (2014)

What do you do if you are pregnant and the biological father is only an affair, but not at all a suitable partner and father? Passionate headhunter Mila has access to numerous application portfolios from men who perfectly match her "type." She embarks on a ...

Tessa Hennig - Elli gibt den Löffel ab (2012)

The husband of Elli died several years ago and now Elli has great financial problems: she must pay 3.000€ of income tax for her shop.At the same time Elli receives a letter from Capri and learns that she is the heiress of a small boarding house in Capri ...

A Very Ordinary Jew (2006)

Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany. ...

Kunstfehler (2006)

Jud Süß – Ein Film als Verbrechen? (2001)

"The blood of millions of people hangs on this film" wrote the newspapers in 1949, when the trial of Veit Harlan began. Between 1940 and 1945, 20 million Germans saw his inflammatory film "Jud Süß". Is Harlan a "director of the devil", as the public pros ...

Wut im Bauch (1999)

Charlotte resigns without notice when a less qualified person gets the promotion she was working for. ...

Eine Frau mit Pfiff (1998)

Der Weihnachtsmörder (1997)

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Napoleon Fritz (1997)

Davids Rache (1997)

Ein Vater sieht rot (1997)

Tresko - Der Maulwurf (1996)

Federal intelligence officer and art expert Jo Tresko is in trouble: he is alleged to have leaked insider information about arms deals to his wife, journalist Katrin. Tresko must find the real "mole" in order to prove his innocence... ...

Lautlose Schritte (1996)

Zerrissene Herzen (1996)

After the death of their parents, the sisters Astrid and Britta want to make the Winkelmann fashion house number one in their hometown. Astrid accepts that her already troubled marriage to Bernd suffers from the ambitious goal - until Bernd agrees to have ...

Ein Mann für meine Frau (1993)

The Men's Choir (1992)

A men's choir decides to go to Sweden and Germany. Shortly before their departure the choir director, Max, dies and is mourned by the choir and especially by their accompanist Magga, whom he was in love with. In deference to Max's memory, they embark upon ...

Geheimakte Lenz (1992)

Der Tod zu Basel (1992)

Mysterious deaths are occurring in Basel: people are dying out of the blue in public with no apparent cause of death. The coroner, Professor Rüegg, the cantonal doctor Zäslin, and politicians are at a loss and becoming fearful. There are even serious con ...

Der absurde Mord (1992)

Lippels Traum (1991)

When his parents go away and he has to stay behind alone with an unloved housekeeper, a boy retreats into a dream—into a fairy-tale adventure story like something out of "1001 Nights," in which people from his everyday life reappear as fairy-tale charact ...

Ausgetrickst (1991)

Thomas Winter crashes his sports plane into the sea off Corsica. His wife Julia is looking forward to four million marks in life insurance. During the settlement, an employee of the insurance company is remarkably helpful - too helpful for the taste of a d ...

Schlösser (1990)

Geld macht nicht glücklich (1989)

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. ...

The State Chancellery (1989)

In the hybrid form of documentary and dramatized scenes, the Barschel affair, one of the major domestic political scandals of the 1980s, is reconstructed. While the documentary scenes are reminiscent of the familiar television images of the scandal, the fi ...

Der Leibwächter (1989)

Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the cartel. But unfortunately everything goes wrong, "The Bodyguard" is exposed and eliminated in Turkey. He surviv ...

The Boss from the West (1988)

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Die Bombe (1988)

A terrorist drives a car to Hamburg's Rathausmarkt and unloads an unknown device that he claims can cause radioactive contamination. A special unit tries to subdue the man, but this reveals that the only way to prevent the explosion is to constantly readju ...

Kampf der Tiger (1988)

Kampf der Tiger 2 (1988)

Fifty Fifty (1988)

Jacob hinter der Blauen Tür (1987)

A 12-year-old boy withdraws completely after his father's accidental death and only regains his zest for life through his encounter with a down-and-out musician. ...

Didi Drives Me Crazy (1986)

German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agen ...

Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen (1986)

Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)

In Hamburg, the police are faced with a mystery after a series of burglaries: there are no clues at the crime scene except for a Japanese character. The characters are soon found all over the city. A retired detective and a journalist finally uncover a hug ...

Zielscheiben (1985)

The police catch Zorro, a small-time crook who is to testify as a key witness in a trial against organized crime. When an assassination attempt is made on him in prison, Zorro is to be given a new identity and the prosecutor decides to let him go into hidi ...

Suche Familie - zahle bar (1985)

Man Without Memory (1984)

The norms of hospital practices are turned upside-down in this complex drama about how many rights are denied patients who do not conform. At the beginning of the story, a man is found lying on the side of the road and is brought in to the police station a ...

Non Stop Trouble with Spies (1983)

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the cl ...

Heimkehr nach Deutschland (1982)

Gute Reise (1981)

Streichquartett (1981)

Herkulespillen (1980)

Ein Mann von gestern (1980)

Der aufregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek (1976)

Stellenweise Glatteis (1975)

Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company's clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union's hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realiz ...