Ulrike Grote

Eine halbe Ewigkeit (2012)

More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and must discover that she lives as a nun in a Protestant monastery. At first she refuses to contact him, the pa ...

Liebe deinen Feind (2010)

Summer 1945 in Germany. In Nordstrand, a peninsula on the North Sea coast, the British army of occupation has set up its central administration in a carefully cordoned-off base cut off from the mainland. Gesa works in the military base's laundry with other ...

Das geteilte Glück (2010)

Nicole Wagner finds out by chance that her son cannot be the son she once fathered with the scaffolder Grille. Nine years ago there was a mix-up with an infant named Sebastian, the son of the academic couple Callenberg, who live at the other end of Freibur ...

Meine Tochter und der Millionär (2009)

Hannes Schmitz works as a garbage collector in Hamburg. The ex-soccer player now coaches the youth team of a suburban club. His sayings are just as feared as his unconventional ideas in labor disputes. Hannes lives on a houseboat that he restored himself a ...

Leo und Marie – Eine Weihnachtsliebe (2008)

Leo has been working for the insurance company for 19 years, without a sick day, without being late, without ever being noticed. Now there is panic in the office: Layoffs are imminent. Nevertheless, the Christmas party takes place - for some it's more of a ...

Mütter Väter Kinder (2008)

Back then they were just friends, now they are a couple: "Mothers, Fathers, Children" is the sequel to the comedy "How do I raise my mother?". This time it's about the joys and sorrows of the patchwork family: Ginger, the eternal flower child, has to look ...

Kuckuckszeit (2007)

Claudia lives happily with her husband Jens and their two children Katja and Max in the small town of Barstedt. Her husband has his own small construction company and Claudia, as a housewife, has no financial worries - until she suddenly runs out of money ...

Der Untergang der Pamir (2006)

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane. ...

Weihnachten im September (2003)

Christa Seeliger is proud and happy to work as a secretary for the boss of the traditional Hamburg company Hansecker, because his chocolate factory is famous for having invented the smiling chocolate Santa Claus. It would never occur to her that her boss w ...

Kollaps (2002)

Eine öffentliche Affäre (2001)

Mörderinnen (2001)

Oh du Liebezeit (2001)

Gloomy Sunday (1999)

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then fea ...

Mammamia (1998)

Paula, a 26‑year‑old Berlin woman, plans to introduce her boyfriend Daniel to her parents on Mother's Day—but the day turns chaotic when she discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant and her mother Clara suddenly announces she's leaving her father after ...

Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne (1997)

Vera, a young, attractive shipbuilding engineer, has both feet on the ground. She is independent, energetic and self-reliant and is bringing up her daughter Taddi on her own. A long-cherished professional dream also comes true: Vera is to work in Shanghai ...

Wolken.Heim (1997)

Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991)

Farocki's intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and society. In a work reminiscent of the writings of Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, Farocki examines a range of phenome ...

Endlich Gardasee (2018)

After 40 years of marriage, Eva's grandma Lotti has had enough. She's seriously thinking about splitting up and moving out. Eva, hoping to prevent the geriatric meltdown, cancels her planned vacation with her boyfriend Johannes and spirits Lotti off to Lak ...

Meine Oma spinnt (2018)

Apropos Glück (2016)

Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde makes the successful British author a lucrative offer. But shortly after the negotiations, the American is fou ...

Täterätää - Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf 2 (2015)

In order to renovate the damaged church on the border between the hostile villages of Oberriesling and Unterriesling, the residents set off together in a coach to faraway Hamburg under the leadership of the Häberles and Rossbauers. There, they want to win ...

Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf (2012)

Green meadows, blue sky in Swabia: Actually, the world of the two villages Oberrieslingen and Unterrieslingen should be in perfect order. But she is not. Why? Because the two hostile villages have had to share a church and a cemetery since the Middle Ages, ...

Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet (2008)

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and their t ...

The Runaway (2004)

Walter is an unemployed architect, who is getting ready to go for an interview. But just as he is about to leave his flat, an eight-year-old boy, Yuri, approaches him at the door, claiming to be his son. ...