Traute Hoess

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious (2022)

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert "Bob" Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare's sonnets? Why doe ...

Zwei Herren im Anzug (2018)

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid. ...

Teenosaurus Rex (2017)

She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy's little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in h ...

Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty? (2017)

Luisa works as a couples therapist and has a loveless relationship with her husband Richard, but at the same time she is having an affair with Richard's boss Leopold. As everything slowly threatens to get out of hand, she wakes up one morning to find a sec ...

Und ich so: Äh (2015)

A day in the life of Berlin cab driver Klaus Grill. ...

Besuch für Emma (2015)

Berlin, the vibrant life. Only cashier Emma feels really lonely. There is nothing wrong with her, she just goes underground in the big city. Her desire to meet people has brought Emma to a strange idea: she lets go in the supermarket purses of customers an ...

Die Kleinen und die Bösen (2015)

Hotte is a petty criminal on probation. He has two teenage children, but he doesn't want to know anything about them. When their grandmother dies, he is given custody of them, which he is not particularly happy about - but he could do with the child benefi ...

Nein, Aus, Pfui! Ein Baby an der Leine (2012)

Crying children, changing diapers, baby food - everything around Jan seems to revolve around having children. Not only is his best friend Theo a new father, but his sister-in-law Marion's children also keep the successful engineer on his toes. So it's all ...

Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze (2011)

Life gets on Erol Ozak's nerves. The enforcement officer is supposed to collect something from people who have nothing. And suddenly there's a bag of money, a dead person, then the money is gone again and the melancholy man from the tax office has a bag of ...

Flesh and Blood (2011)

Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful career as a businesswoman. When her friends Bogdan and Mimi adopt a Ukrainian child, she remembers her own chi ...

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 ...

Colors in the Dark (2011)

Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are finishing school. Both can look back at a fulfilling past, but their lives are still rich and vibrant. The fac ...

Men in the City (2009)

Follows six very different men and their struggles with women, family and work. Yet, they are somehow connected to each other. ...

Ganz nah bei Dir (2009)

The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all content and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, howe ...

Sleeping Songs (2009)

Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in his music, nor in love. When he gets the feeling that Kristina, the love of his life, only loves him for his ...

North Face (2008)

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger. ...

Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (2008)

Spring 1945: the Allies are outside Hamburg. In front of a movie theater, Lena Brücker meets Hermann Bremer, a marine assigned to the 'final battle on the home front'. After a night of love, Lena offers to hide the young man in her apartment during the la ...

Juli mit Delphin (2008)

The driving school courses are the best business in the whole year, therefore, sends a driving instructor Hubert his wife and three daughters for a week alone to the North sea. It really looks as if in this period, Fini, the plush Dolphin, his daughter has ...

Head Under Water (2007)

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the b ...

Fashion Victims (2007)

At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker (Edgar Selge) is in old school territory: he peddles the company's classic clothing line to boutiques that cater to women over 35. When Wolfi loses his drivers license in his brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

The Quiet Love (2005)

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Danish border. ...

Summer in Berlin (2005)

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas. ...

Haider lebt - 1. April 2021 (2002)

Vienna in 2021. Europe is divided into American sectors. The currency is being converted from the euro to the dollar. Johnny Bush (the son of American peacekeeper George Bush) is the Chancellor of Austria. English becomes the primary language; dialects are ...

Anna Wunder (2002)

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 ...

John Gabriel Borkman (2000)

Otomo (1999)

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny. ...

Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)

Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire. ...

Das einfache Glück (1990)

Frank, a perpetual loser from the "milieu", runs over a pedestrian during an argument with his lover Sabine and commits a hit-and-run. A petty criminal and friend of the dead man, to whom he has confessed his crime, hires him as a "bill collector" and char ...

Hab' ich nur deine Liebe (1989)

The shy Michael Seebisch wants to work even more in the new year. His great love is for computers. Only the enamel of great opera voices can transport him from everyday life to another, imaginative world. ...

Marocain (1989)

A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young Moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's past. ...

Eddie, mein Liebling (1988)

Tango im Bauch (1985)

Neon City (1982)

Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s. ...

Night of Destiny (1981)

A full moon night in a godforsaken region somewhere between Fulda and the Carpathians: On a lonely country road, opera diva Alma Meyer-Efeu and her pianist rush towards another comeback attempt. At the same time, a trio of ladies and their manager race thr ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Union Square (1979)