Sven Pippig

Die Pilgerin (2014)

In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela to fulfill her father's last wishes and bring his heart there. Disguised as a man, the pilgrim is hunted b ...

Lore (2012)

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents' actions and th ...

Shores of Hope (2012)

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they infor ...

Der Mann auf dem Baum (2011)

Divorced hotel employee Hans seems to have lost his son Moritz forever. His ex-wife Linda wants to emigrate to Denmark with him and her new boyfriend. Although he is a man, he no longer has any say in society, because men are, after all, evolution's discon ...

Ameisen gehen andere Wege (2011)

After his father committed suicide, Richard decides to stay in a youth center rather than staying with his mother. There, he finds a bizarre bunch of teenagers. Each of them experienced pain from early on, having their own desires and fighting for happines ...

Bauernopfer (2011)

For organic farmer Andi Gruber, the single father of his eleven-year-old daughter Lena, his world suddenly collapses when it turns out that his cattle are contaminated with harmful substances and have to be slaughtered by the authorities. His livelihood is ...

Young Goethe in Love (2010)

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man. ...

Mensch Kotschie (2010)

A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency word ...

Henri 4 (2010)

A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a ...

Auf Doktor komm raus (2010)

Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land. And then his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, just behind a small town called Marienhagen. The residents ...

The Roar of the Sea (2010)

An African refugee, whose identity is unknown, is being interrogated in prison. He refuses to speak and eat, seems traumatized. When the prison guard, who is looking after the prisoner, finds a hidden photograph, he realizes there is something out of the o ...

The Murder Farm (2009)

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years ear ...

Butter bei die Fische (2009)

Village pastor Hans-Uwe is worried about his brother Fiedje and his friends Heinrich and Knud in his small village of Toestrup in Schleswig-Holstein. The men have been alone for years and there are no suitable women in sight. But now there is hope, because ...

Pepperminta (2009)

Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people of their fea ...

Das tapfere Schneiderlein (2008)

Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the castle ...

Finnischer Tango (2008)

Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really care. This changes when he and his bandmates steal a rocker band's tour bus and there is an accident. Alex' ...

Stormy Times (2008)

Master roofer Werner Stegemann lives in an idyllic holiday village on the Baltic Sea. His son Nils has broken off contact with him. ...

My Mother, My Bride And I (2008)

At 41, Erwin Kobarek still lives with his mother, with whom he runs a petrol station in the countryside. A relationship has not yet materialized for Erwin. When his mother senses that her son needs a wife, she sends Erwin to a marriage agency in Romania. A ...

Rumpelstilzchen (2007)

German TV adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin". ...

Theo, Agnes, Bibi und die anderen (2007)

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Mord auf Rezept (2007)

Thriller about an accident victim with amnesia who may have been working as a hitman for his rescuer... After an accident, nurse Noah frees a stranger from his car. He steals the man's wallet, finds a room card inside, and drives to the hotel in the hope o ...

Spur der Hoffnung (2006)

A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local policeman becomes suspicious. He and B ...

Four Minutes (2006)

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl's secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was. ...

Spezialauftrag: Kindermädchen (2006)

Call girl Jacky looks taken aback from the cleavage, as Leon is currently facing. Eleven-year-old had the Internet a "governess" ordered. On role-playing games specializes in applying Jacky summarily as a nanny. Leon's widowed father, Henry, takes a Liking ...

Waves (2005)

Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling's 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and i ...

Judith Kemp (2004)

Judith Kemp has become a lone fighter since the death of her husband. As a single mother of two children and an aspiring star lawyer in a large corporate law firm, Judith manages her job and family. Inevitably, someone often falls by the wayside: their chi ...

Half the Rent (2004)

An obsessed hacker escapes and hides in empty apartments after his girlfriend dies of an overdose in his apartment, but he cannot control his obsession with breaking into others' homes. ...

Liebe auf Bewährung (2004)

After the death of her husband, the well-off widow Juliane Willbrand sinks into a great void. Her efforts to return to her old job as a librarian after twenty years prove futile until prison warden Schober gives her a chance. The challenge as head of the p ...

Wolfsburg (2003)

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and, instead of helping him, he drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accide ...

Zuckerbrot (2003)

Passport Forger Ricki must appease a principal Rickis parolee sister Jenny and the German-Russian Mitja should help. But everything turns out differently: The outsider Jenny and Mitja discover their common ground - and a lot more ... The delicate and exce ...

D.I.K. - Jagd auf Virus X (2003)

Gelübde des Herzens (2003)

Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic car accident. To get some distance, Sophie takes on a job in a Tuscan monastery. There she falls in love with theology student Luca Divalle, without knowin ...

Die drei Punkte (2003)

Short film directed by Christian Scherg. ...

FearDotCom (2002)

When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deat ...

Something to Remind Me (2002)

Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing. ...

Ein Sack voll Geld (2002)

Nice gift: Shortly before Christmas loses parcel delivery Wolfgang Paschke the debit card, the driver's license and his job. Famously, he also stumbles on a money bag, but a little later he is gone again. Great excitement before the festival! ...

Bargeld lacht (2001)

Zärtliche Sterne (2000)

Gigantic (1999)

The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going ...

Nah am Wasser (1994)

It is the time of the 1994 World Cup. Günther Schmidt has no friends. Dull he pursues his profession, drinks his beer in the evening in the pub. The feeling of success he only experiences on the weekend when he wins in the model boat competition. The trop ...