Sophie von Kessel

After Us, the Rest of the World (2023)

Once again, 16-year-old Jonas starts at a new school and, as always, he has no intention of being anybody's darling. Jonas has muscular dystrophy, is confined to a wheelchair and knows that he will die sooner rather than later from this incurable and progr ...

Das Verhör in der Nacht (2020)

Philosophy professor Judith is on her way to her parents' house to celebrate Christmas with them. But nothing comes of it, because as she leaves her hotel she is intercepted by a state security officer. A grueling interrogation begins. Thomas knows a lot a ...

Laim und der letzte Schuldige (2020)

The Munich LKA officer Sandra Rutkowski received an anonymous call in which a star tenor from the Munich State Opera was accused of molesting children. A boy brought to him is said to be locked in the cloakroom of the singer, who is still being celebrated ...

Wenn Frauen ausziehen (2019)

The sleepy village of Gendering is basically just a tiny spot on the map, but a very beautiful one. The village is so attractively located between the Alps and Munich that the young innkeeper Paula receives an offer to sell the village to an investor for 1 ...

A Song for Mia (2019)

For the handsome Sebastian life goes by easily. During the day he works in a fashion shop, in the evening he flirts through the clubs of the city. Blessed with an extraordinary voice, all signs of a career for the young singer. Ironically, an accident rips ...

Du bist nicht allein (2018)

When Eva returns to her house on the day of her divorce, she finds a bouquet of red roses outside the door. Attached is the note: "You are not alone." The sender is anonymous. ...

Brandnächte (2017)

To find out the truth about her sister's death, lawyer Julia returns to her home village in the foothills of the Alps, where the gruesome murder took place eight years ago. A mysterious email she receives opens up old wounds and makes her doubt whether the ...

Just Call Me God (2017)

When confronted by soldiers and a reporter in a subterranean concert hall within his presidential palace, dictator Diman Cha delivers a series of powerful monologues to the world's media revealing his deranged nature, accompanied by organist Martin Hasselb ...

Ein Kommissar kehrt zurück (2016)

Newly retired Chief Inspector Kovak returns to a small village near Greifswald, where a gruesome crime took place 20 years ago. He was unable to solve the case back then because the evidence against the renowned physics professor Adam was not enough. Now h ...

Freundinnen - Alle für eine (2016)

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems. ...

Die Salzprinzessin (2015)

It's time for King Christoph to hand over his scepter to one of his three beloved daughters. Princess Amelie was exploring the woods and discovers a glittering salt crystal. At court, King Christoph has reached a decision: Whichever daughter best proclai ...

Das Beste aller Leben (2015)

Actually, the Maillingers just want to celebrate the christening of their youngest family member — but then everything turns out differently than expected... ...

Silvia S.: Blinde Wut (2015)

The Two Twins (2015)

By-the-book logopaedist Matthias Pretschke, failed husband and father, is the very embodiment of order, who doesn't know what hit him when his wife Petra demands a divorce. Admittedly, he hasn't paid much attention to Petra, nor to their daughter, who's in ...

Zwischen den Zeiten (2014)

On a class trip to the GDR in 1986, Annette flirted with the East German Michael. Today she is working on reconstructing shredded Stasi files and comes across a photo of him. Annette finds Michael and their love flares up again. Not just out of jealousy, A ...

Beste Bescherung (2013)

At Christmas, the four Maillinger siblings want to spend quality time together in peace and quiet. That's why Miriam, who is now heavily pregnant, invited Anna, Vince and Tom, with their families, to her boyfriend's farm. This project threatens to fail bec ...

Spieltrieb (2013)

A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love. ...

In den besten Familien (2012)

Entrepreneur daughter Anna Maillinger wants to start a new career in New Zealand after the divorce. Shortly before leaving, she learns that the family business is facing bankruptcy. Anna's oldest brother Vince leads the company meanwhile. He asks Anna to c ...

Ein vorbildliches Ehepaar (2012)

Two men meet in the men's room of a courthouse. Both just divorced, they decide to help each other recover their wives. ...

Geisterfahrer (2012)

Freddy Kowalski and Emile Ramzy are paramedics in Hamburg and race night after night through the city, regardless of congested intersections, red lights and oncoming traffic. They are real life savers. One day they witness a murder and decide to go to the ...

Davon willst du nichts wissen (2011)

After un accident that has caused the death of a young man, a man have to struggle with his guilty and some strange threatning messages push him and his wife to the unknow. ...

Die Tochter des Mörders (2010)

"Was ist, wenn man strampelt und strampelt, um an die Spitze zu kommen, und dann merkt, dass man nur davongelaufen ist?" Diese Frage quält Hanna Meiwald (Sophie von Kessel). Just als die gewiefte Münchner Geschäftsfrau einen Riesendeal über die Bühne ...

Westflug - Entführung aus Liebe (2010)

1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War crisis and forcing 60 hapless passengers to decide in minutes whether to give up everything and stay in th ...

Ken Folletts Eisfieber (2010)

A deadly virus is stolen from the high-security laboratory of a biotechnology company. Although the thief can be found, lifeless and bleeding from the nose and ears, the danger is not over yet: A gang of unscrupulous criminals is also on the hunt for the v ...

Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen (2009)

Air traffic controller Johann Lenders has just taken over the night shift in the tower at Zurich Airport when he notices an irregularity on the radar screen: two planes on a collision course. His efforts to avert the impending collision fail. A Russian pas ...

Das Beste kommt erst (2009)

In the Austrian first broadcast: For his life he said to others where to go. That shouldn't change on the 70th birthday. The screw manufacturer Karl Mailinger asked his four children. In his mountain hut in the Bavarian Alps, the eager Anna, eco-fan Tom, t ...

Puccini (2009)

Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six. ...

Das Geheimnis im Wald (2008)

After many years, Detective Chief Inspector Steffen Gellhagen returns to his home town to solve the case of a missing schoolgirl. The former teacher Kortmann, who has a criminal record for rape resulting in death, very quickly becomes the investigator's ta ...

Ein riskantes Spiel (2008)

Herr Bello (2007)

After his mother's death, the 12-year-old Max, son of pharmacist Sternheim, wishes for a pet. One day a dog appears in Max's life. By his power of persuasion he is allowed to keep this dog and names him "Bello". In the meantime a new tenant, Verena Lichtbl ...

Day of Disaster (2007)

In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ignites, their lives intertwine, revealing hidden fears and unbreakable bonds amid the flames. ...

Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)

Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack. Once he´s home, he makes a terrifying discovery: dad has a girlf ...

Ein langer Abschied (2006)

Ten-year-old Rebecca is diagnosed with leukemia. Her illness also puts a strain on her parents' marriage. Ralph has already fallen out with Ellen so hopelessly that he takes refuge in an affair. When Rebecca suffers a serious setback, the desperate mother ...

Kunstfehler (2006)

I am a Berliner (2005)

Felix Rath is a small and lovable rogue . When he finds handwritten love letters from John F. Kennedy to his aunt Agnes in the estate of his deceased mother , he deflected with his buddy Dietrich immediately his birth certificate . Now he is the illegitima ...

Die Konferenz (2005)

After Victor, 19 years old, is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl, his teachers -under the direction of principal Cornelia Cordes- have to decide whether he should be suspended or not. The discussion of these nine persons shows the contrasts in human cha ...

Die Rückkehr des Vaters (2004)

Just Get Married! (2003)

Familienkreise (2003)

Foreign correspondent Parz returns to the family after years. His children have long since grown up, but the authoritarian patriarch interferes in everything. When the conflict with Mirko, the eldest, escalates, son Christopher tries to mediate... ...

Affäre zu dritt (2003)

Katrin and Max are a couple. She examines police colleagues for her workability, he is a Kripo commissioner. When Hansen, the chief commissioner, is placed at his side, everything changes. ...

Ein Yeti zum Verlieben (2001)

The completely overwhelmed single father Tim sees his purpose in life in the search for the Yeti. When he actually finds him, the benevolent snowman helps him to find happiness in his private life too. ...

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker (2001)

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story. ...

Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha (2000)

According to legend, the Black Buddha is a figure that brings death to those who steal it and wisdom to those who return it. Nick is an adventurer who has stolen the figure and is little concerned about the legends ... until this legend begins to come true ...

Die Musterknaben 2 (1999)

A new case for "The Model Boys": The two Cologne commissioners Docker and Dretzke to take the next 14 days a journalist to their missions. ...

Auch Männer brauchen Liebe (1998)

Einsteins Ende (1998)

Alte Liebe, alte Sünde (1997)

Restorer Imke is called back to her hometown, which she once left after a dispute with her family. An unknown assailant has shot at the image of the sinner Mary Magdalene in the church. ...

Amerika (1996)

A drama about a east german village called 'Amerika'. ...

Zu treuen Händen (1995)

The satirical film is about the liquidation of a sewing machine combine by the Treuhandanstalt (THA) in the town of Altenburg in Thuringia. The company is ailing. The (corrupt) officer in charge at the THA wants to close the company and give the property t ...

Internationale Zone (1995)

Affären (1994)

A married couple has problems and he wants to solve these against her wish by consulting a psychiatrist. As both expect an older woman they are very surprised when the psychiatrist reveals to be a good looking younger woman of the same age as they are. Esp ...

The Dragon Ring (1994)

The Dragon Ring is an italian film of two parts. It's about Desideria, the dragon king's daughter and Selvaggia, her adopted and magical sister. To get the dragon ring after the death of her father, Desideria needs to marry, but she can't find a husband, s ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung (1993)

The young bookseller Rebecca Bayliss was setting up her new apartment in London when she received news of her mother Lisa's serious illness. Rebecca rushed off to her mother in Ibiza and heard the terrible news: leukemia. During the last hours together, Li ...

Jenseits von Federn (1993)

Wilhelm, who is a fanatic for justice, and Mango Karl kidnap Erwin, the beloved cockerel of Mrs. Wassermann. As always, the two men aim to distribute the money obtained by extortion among the socially needy. The rest is "Beyond Feathers"... ...

Nachtfenster (1993)

After spending seven years in jail, Max Kulik returns home. At night he watches a girl in the house across the street, and her desparate anguish both touches and attracts him. For just a moment, it seems as if the two of them might manage to start a new li ...