Uwe Bohm

Effigy: Poison and the City (2020)

1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law an ...

Spuren der Rache (2016)

Frank Hennings loses his wife and daughter in a bomb attack in the middle of Berlin. In his grief, the retired civil servant focuses on just one goal: revenge. When the investigation is closed prematurely, he travels to Morocco on his own initiative and fo ...

Der Hafenpastor und das Blaue vom Himmel (2016)

In the third film of the successful series, Jan Fedder is back as a Pastor Book with body and soul. To look after human destinies in St. Pauli, he sees as his life's task, no matter what milieu they come from or what confession they belong. The fallen and ...

Goodbye Berlin (2016)

Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey. ...

The General Case (2016)

In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes ...

Sanctuary (2015)

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog. ...

Hostages of the SS (2015)

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan ...

Tiefe Wunden (2015)

Der Hafenpastor und das graue Kind (2015)

Pastor Stefan Book once again has his hands full in his parish in St. Pauli: he has only just managed to talk the mentally distressed sexton Eddi out of attempting suicide when he learns that 16-year-old confirmation student Paloma and her boyfriend Winni, ...

Clara Immerwahr (2014)

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle for acknowledgment in nationalistic Germany during World War I lead to the development and use of the first chemical weapons. ...

A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt (2014)

A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschkron, who tells the incredible tale of Weidt's efforts to save her and the rest of his employees from the Nazis, including Alice Licht, the love of Otto Weid ...

Gold (2013)

Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, flamboya ...

Jahr des Drachen (2012)

Thomas Eichner works for a large textile company. He has traveled to Saigon to negotiate a joint venture. Far away from his home, the smouldering conflict with his grown-up son Daniel, the years of tormenting worry about his cancer-stricken wife Maren and ...

The Case of Jakob von Metzler (2012)

Der Hafenpastor (2012)

Stefan Book is Pastor of the Hamburger St. Pauli Church for Schanze, Karo and Kiez. He sees it as his life's task to devote himself to the fallen and stranded. In view of the flight of the young, deportation-threatened African Adoma Fauré into his church, ...

My Best Enemy (2011)

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary ...

In the Shadows (2010)

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest j ...

Sieben Tage (2009)

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country. ...

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 ...

Vater aus Liebe (2008)

The single Christine Arnold, who works with great success as a commercial lawyer in a Cologne law firm, is on her way to her old friend Judith, who is going through a very difficult phase of her life: recently she has parted company with her longtime frien ...

Die Lüge (2008)

Financial advisor Nadja Trenkler and housewife Susanne Lasko look like twin sisters. When they happen to run into each other in the elevator one day, Nadja suggests to her doppelgänger that they occasionally switch places for a fee. ...

Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007)

Vacation (2007)

All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten t ...

Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr (2006)

Daniel Käfer's time out in Ausseerland is coming to an end. He has to focus on his new career. But his journey ends in Hallstatt. His acquaintance with the young Gerd Gamsjäger and his mother leads to dramatic events. In his exuberance, Käfer causes a s ...

Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch (2005)

Editor-in-chief Daniel Käfer is unemployed. His magazine "Intelligence" was discontinued due to "too high a standard". Now he wants to think about his future in Ausseerland, where he spent his best summer vacations, but his return to the realm of his chil ...

Eine verflixte Begegnung im Mondschein (2004)

Claudia gets into a fight with the rich snob Benno over a parking space. At that moment, the mysterious bottle of holy water that Aunt Rosa had sent as a wedding gift shattered, rumored to be the water to grant wishes. ...

Hunger auf Leben (2004)

Die Rückkehr des Vaters (2004)

Der Aufstand (2003)

June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet ...

The Irresistible One - The Thousand Lies of Gert Postel (2002)

Impudence wins! The cheeky impostor with a secondary school diploma pretends to be "successful" as a court expert and senior physician. ...

Vaya con Dios (2002)

Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer. ...

Herz (2001)

Brennendes Schweigen (2000)

The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. ...

Liebesengel (2000)

Cloned to Kill (2000)

Paul und Clara – Liebe vergeht nie (1999)

Ich liebe eine Hure (1998)

36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind (1998)

Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst (1997)

A Demon in My View (1991)

A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down. ...

Der Fotograf (1990)

The son of a photographer chasing his dream of life in a deserted harbor area is reminded by a chance acquaintance that he loves the same type of woman as his father. When the New Yorker discovers her father's work, she begins to tell new stories with the ...

Herzlich willkommen (1990)

Friedrich manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, or "cordial, heartfelt welcome." However, once he finds employment, what he experiences is anything but a cordial welc ...

Yasemin (1988)

Yasemin is a 17-year old Turkish girl who lives with her parents in Hamburg-Altona, Germany. While her mother and father accept that Yasemin has her own German friends, they also expect her to honor the traditions of their country of origin. The arrival of ...

Love Is the Beginning of All Terror (1984)

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women. ...

Der Fall Bachmeier - Keine Zeit für Tränen (1984)

The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981. ...

The Heartbreakers (1983)

Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them. ...

Im Herzen des Hurrican (1980)

A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to photograph the moose, the other wants to kill it. Without knowing about each other at first, they travel all ...

Moritz, Dear Moritz (1978)

15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there M ...

North Sea Is Death Sea (1976)

14-year-old Uwe lives in a suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some money, he prizes open vending machines, and to let out his frustration, he beats up "wogs". Among them is ...

Ich kann auch 'ne Arche bauen (1974)

Five children secretly enter a house, wander around and begin to build an ark in the basement. Uwe always wants to be right and give commands to others but not do work himself. The others drive him away when he wants to open the water. Out of revenge Uwe l ...