Steffen Scheumann

Christmas Crossfire (2020)

A man foils an attempted murder, then flees the crew of would-be killers along with their intended target as a woman he's just met tries to find him. ...

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence (2020)

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010. ...

Julia Must Die (2020)

What a curious plan of Lya. Putting sleeping pills in the morning tea of her father. Pulling the sleeping wheelchair user to the vegetable store of her brother and attending secretly the acting exam. And all this only because Lya thinks that eight years of ...

Dream Factory (2019)

A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall. ...

The Mover (2018)

Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family's hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from th ...

In the Aisles (2018)

Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces Christian to a colorful group of overnight wor ...

Forwards Ever! (2017)

A stage actor's turn as GDR leader Erich Honecker inspires an outlandish scheme to keep his daughter safe during the Leipzig protests of 1989. ...

Summer Solstice (2015)

Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in German-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon. ...

Bismarck - Härte und Empfindsamkeit (2015)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, t ...

Fly Away (2012)

Proud Annegret Simon is new to the retirement home. She doesn't particularly like the change of scenery. And rightly so, says Mr. Tiedgen, who would also rather live alone than be looked after. Exercise therapy and reading afternoons are the epitome of bor ...

Hotel Lux (2011)

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comin ...

Alive and Ticking (2011)

Eva lives a happy life with her ​​father, an unsuccessful but always optimistic car salesman, her consumerist mother, and her quirky grandmother. But Eva is a tad different - she suffers from Tourette's syndrome. Her family has long been accustomed to ...

Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten (2009)

After a few years working like intern, Till, eventually becomes head of his own company, job counseling for young trainees. In turn, comes Sydelia, left-wing activist, idealist and combative. Their paths will soon cross youth. She is determined to start it ...

The Countess (2009)

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever. ...

The Moon and Other Lovers (2008)

The story of Hanna, a woman who will not take life's setbacks and knock-downs sitting down. Instead, she takes them in her stride, picks herself up and marches onward. This is a woman who continually draws new courage from her inexhaustible will to live. W ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

Liebe auf Kredit (2007)

Willkommen in Lüsgraf (2006)

The attractive Moni works as a photo reporter at the local newspaper of her small hometown Lüsgraf. One day, when the bricks-and-mortar shakers, makers of electric shavers and the village's biggest employer, face bankruptcy, the male workforce occupies th ...

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 ...

Ein Goldfisch unter Haien (2004)

The Trixxer (2004)

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle. ...

Kleinruppin Forever (2004)

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth. ...

Mein Weg zu Dir (2003)

The young, successful lawyer Lena Seidel travels to the small winegrowing town of Hilleritz on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport. There she is to convince the unruly villagers of the construction of a highway connection. Hardly Lena has arrived i ...

Madrid (2003)

The story of an immigrant Spanish family in Germany. When Isabel's parents decide to go back to Spain, she chooses to stay in Germany. After she meets Manuel, who is half Spanish, she starts to feel homesick. ...

The Woman Who Doubted Dr. Fabian (2002)

After a small sample of fabric, the eternal student and occasional dealer Paul ends up in the emergency room. Enraged, father Willi takes his offspring back to his sleepy Westphalian home, where foxes and rabbits still say goodnight to each other. He locks ...

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasing ...

Adamski (1993)

Horst Adamski takes a job as a department store detective and promptly falls in love with busy shoplifter Lili. His special approaches, however, rather intimidate Lili and call her unscrupulous boyfriend Wolf into action. To make the chaos perfect, the co- ...

Herzsprung (1992)

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives ...