Volker Ranisch

The Beginner (2018)

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 years. Back on the ice, she tries to revive long suppressed childhood dreams – and makes a new friend ...

The Lies of the Victors (2014)

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates tea ...

False Freedom (2014)

The name "Voss" is given to a high-ranking Nazi criminal who flees from Germany to South America after the end of the Second World War, like hundreds of thousands of other people. The escape route leads across the Alps and South Tyrol to Genoa and from the ...

Mittlere Reife (2012)

Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they must take extra hours in ethics. It is their last chance. Stressed out with her own exams, the new trainee ...

Die Freundin der Tochter (2009)

The Red Cockatoo (2006)

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision. ...

Kleinruppin Forever (2004)

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth. ...

Der Preis der Schönheit (2000)

Der Coup (1997)

Die Katze von Kensington (1996)

Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring. ...

Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1994)

A romantic fairy tale about love. ...

Miraculi (1992)

A group of young people draws straws to see who'll steal some cigarettes. With this theft, Sebastian starts a bizarre, symbolic odyssey through a sclerotic world, in search of himself and of truth and justice. When he tries withdrawing from one social para ...

Die Lügnerin (1992)

Trutz (1991)

Der Fall Ö. (1991)

During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of ...

Heute sterben immer nur die anderen (1991)

Maria tells her former colleague, Hanna, that she has undergone a cancer operation but is now cured. Soon after, she suffers a relapse. The doctors believe that she should be told the truth about her condition, and Hanna is willing to do so. For Maria, it ...

The Break (1989)

A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946. ...