Susanne Bredehöft

Another German Tank Story (2025)

A crew from the U.S. intends to film a war drama at an abandoned sugar factory on the remote outskirts of a German city, making the nearby town, which had been a pool of stagnant water, seem to come to life. The residents are excited, each making their own ...

Abendland (2024)

Because the German state has failed, a large number of people are living in the forest, outside of society. ...

Miss Merkel - Mord auf dem Friedhof (2024)

Another murder takes place in tranquil Klein-Freudenstadt. And Angela Merkel is in the middle of it again. ...

Songs of a Caretaker (2023)

The shy Hugo is a caretaker in a prefabricated building. He feels at home here, is appreciated by the residents and sings his songs in the corridors. Dramatic changes make Hugo uncomfortable in his home. Similarly dissatisfied is Johanna, who lives in a bu ...

Losing Faith (2023)

The existential quest of a young woman, Flippa, within the eternal "heterosexual knot". In search of her sister Furia, she finds her in Sardinia in a community of mother witches. ...

Miss Merkel - Ein Uckermark-Krimi (2023)

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is retired and lives with her husband and pug in a small town. She is bored with the quiet life. When a man is found murdered in a castle, she begins to investigate on her own, supported by her bodyguard. ...

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2023)

Contemporary cinema's preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz Emigholz returns with an alternately mournful and sly treatise on how the presence—and, in some cases, absenceâ ...

Grand Jete (2022)

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships. ...

For Jojo (2022)

When her best friend Jojo falls in love and moves on from their wild dating adventures in Berlin, Paula does everything she can to sabotage her wedding. ...

The Death of My Mother (2022)

Kerstin is in great pain. Her daughter Juliane wants to help her die, but the law forbids it. Jessica Krummacher's second feature describes the most important of events via tiny details that stay with us and get under our skin. ...

Mostly Minimalistic (2022)

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go throug ...

Forces (2022)

Thirteen-year-old Daniel lives with his older brother and terminally ill father in a village plagued by rural exodus. There, the young people live their lives between rare bus stops, xenophobia, unemployment, illegal dog fights and chemical intoxicants, am ...

Saturne (2021)

The magical-realist camera follows the trials and encounters of Jonathan as he attempts to fulfill his mother's final wish: that her ashes be laid to rest at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Carrying her blue urn and searching for a suitable location, he attempts t ...

Third Body (2020)

Victoria, a transgender woman, embarks on a journey in search of release from the burden of the body and its limitations. ...

Exile (2020)

A chemical engineer of foreign origin faces discrimination and bullying at work, plunging him into an identity crisis. ...

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. ...

Viele Kühe und ein schwarzes Schaf (2020)

Martin has failed as a veterinary surgeon and works in research. But then he loses this job too. He is neither stupid nor lazy, just incredibly scatterbrained. His girlfriend Tessa has had enough and throws him out. Martin is left in a shambles. Just at th ...

Lara (2019)

Today is Lara's 60th birthday, which happens to fall on the same day as her pianist son's career-defining concert. A failed pianist herself, Lara spends the time before his performance pacing about Berlin—boiling with jealousy, nerves, and pride—trying ...

Adam & Evelyn (2018)

Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own. ...

Teufelsmoor (2018)

After the death of her father Georg Inga Hauck drives together with her son Max in their home village. In her old home she meets Anna Kertesz. Inga's parents had taken Anna 28 years ago after her adult brother Zoltan mysteriously disappeared. Since the sam ...

Bed Bugs (2017)

Burned out and lonely Rocky is almost 50 years old and has seen better times as a womanizer. One day, Thorben shows up at his door claiming to be his son. He is trying to get advice on how to be successful with women. ...

Radio Home (2016)

Four teenage friends - Frank, Spüli, Mücke, and Pommes - try to have their first contact with the opposite gender. Not so easy in the Ruhr region of the 80s. Attempts at dancing and being in a band go wrong, and their parents and teachers can't help with ...

Top Girl or la déformation professionnelle (2015)

Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she's also increasingly annoyed with he ...

Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten (2008)

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he pro ...

Fremdverstümmelung (2007)

Part of the Bonn opera production "Freax". Schlingensief's disabled protagonists initially move through the circus ring in artist costumes, as in Tod Browning's Freaks (1932), interspersed with and thus communicating with footage of their controversial ope ...

The Last One Put Out the Light (2007)

The Berlin construction workers Micha, Silvio and Norbert are out of work. The way out spells - Norway. Because German craftsmen are in demand. The three, with 17 other desperate people, are bawling Norwegian and preparing themselves for "it's always just ...

Der Junge in der Waschmaschine (2006)

The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne's young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Yo ...

Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm (2004)

A musician tries to get by working several jobs. ...

Freakstars 3000 (2003)

As stated in the opening titles and at the end Freakstars 3000 is supposed to be a commentary on the problems of the non-disabled people. The more I was shocked about how the disabled were depicted in this film the more I started to realize that in every n ...

The Princess and the Warrior (2000)

Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the ma ...

Death of a World Star (1994)

A mockumentary - after suffering a tragic accident on a shoot in Tuscany, Udo Kier is about to die. Alfred Edel is sent in to film an obituary. ...

Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da (1994)

A docudrama about the eventful life of Domenica Niehoff, a high-class prostitute from Hamburg who later became a social worker: Domenica's mother leaves Italy and her abusive husband, makes her way to Germany with her two children, but ends up in prison, a ...

Terror 2000 (1993)

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provinci ...

The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages. ...

Mother's Mask (1988)

Returnee Willy von Mühlenbeck has to realize that his evil brother Martin has risen to become the head of the industrialist family, while their ailing mother is in the hands of sinister doctors. When he falls in love with the terminally ill Els, fate take ...

Schloß und Siegel (1987)

Two inmates make written contact through a personal ad that is hidden and found in a pair of work trousers. The pen-pal relationship turns into love, whose future remains uncertain after a personal encounter. ...

Kassensturz (1984)

Erich Bauermann is a smart, young, good-looking guy (he thinks). His life becomes troublesome, when he first meets a very unusual woman and an even more unusual bank robber. ...