Uwe Steimle

Sushi in Suhl (2012)

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise f ...

Bollywood lässt Alpen glühen (2011)

The inhabitants of St. Maria curiously register the exotic film crew who want to shoot a Bollywood blockbuster in their home village. This is the brainchild of former local Franzi, now a production assistant in the city, who never wanted to return due to h ...

Monika (2011)

Monika, 20, nearsighted and dependent on her family, fails a risky eye laser operation and loses her sight. Her mother, Birgit, overwhelmed, places her in a municipal home for the blind, where Monika receives proper care and overcomes depression. With newf ...

Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fa ...

Plötzlich Millionär (2008)

Because car dealership owner Brausewetter is in financial difficulties, he quickly discontinues the small bus line that he runs on the side in the Harz Mountains. Drivers Benno and Axel are out of a job. But then Benno's deceased aunt leaves him a million ...

Crazy Race 3 - Sie knacken jedes Schloss (2007)

Frank Wieland, a master thief at the start of his career, has his sights set on King Ludwig II's signet ring. But no sooner has he broken into the safe than his role model Kara Moreni, of all people, steals the ring from him. Frank is serving six years in ...

Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel (2004)

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly in love with an East Berliner. Jenny's parents are foaming from wrath and offer a reward: One-hundred thou ...

Traumfrau mit Verspätung (2001)

Heinrich der Säger (2001)

When rail lines are cut and workers laid off, Kurt Grantke sabotages the Commercial Railway to protect his town. Despite no injuries or evidence, the line to Storchenroda closes. Caught by Commissar Stahl, Kurt is freed by friends and, with his new wife, j ...

Ein Stück vom Glück (2001)

The story of a male friendship in the tough show business of entertainer Frank Haller, a man full of charm and wit, and his spirited manager Jochen Below. They were at the top of the ladder of success. But when Haller's wife died of loneliness, his success ...

Sumo Bruno (2001)

Charming, lonely, 400-pound railway guard Bruno discoves a new life and a new love on the road to the world Sumo wrestling championship. ...

Der Himmel kann warten (2000)

Der Elefant in meinem Bett (1999)

Ufos über Waterlow (1998)

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East (1992)

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprisi ...

Der Streit um des Esels Schatten (1990)

The philosopher Democritus has a toothache, so a dentist from ancient Abdera sets off for his house. En route, he gets into a fight with a donkey driver. This conflict eventually causes all of Abdera to go crazy. Just when the city is seconds away from hav ...

Two Strange Characters (1989)

The two computer specialists Frank and Kamminke are not the type of citizens the party likes. Thus they are sent to the landscape where they still find enough stuff to do: They repair the software of a western type factory which is currently not working. ...

Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara (1988)

Johann Hull, a man with revolutionary charisma, comes to St. Barbara one day. He encourages the starving fishermen to fight to improve their living conditions. They dare to revolt. ...