Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

The Girl With the Golden Hands (2022)

East Germany, in autumn 1999. Gudrun Pfaff is about to turn sixty when she finds out that the orphanage she grew up in is being sold to turn into a hotel, and she is willing to do anything to stop it. ...

Money. Murder. Zurich.: Borchert and the icy death (2021)

When Borchert receives an anonymous message that a certain Franz Brosi is innocent, law firm boss Dominique can hardly believe it. After all, Brosi was her first client as a public defender a few years ago and had actually confessed. The two are investigat ...

Am Ende ist man tot (2018)

The two washed-up TV stars Micki and Ginger and the unemployed physicist Reno try to kidnap a young woman. But one of the three kidnappers suddenly doubts the value of the money and drives his accomplices mad. The kidnapped woman is already missing. Three ...

Eine Hand wäscht die Andere (2012)

Chlodwig Pullmann is a tax inspector and is involved in a thousand little deals and tricks - with the knowledge of Mayor Karsten Leimer, who has a lot more dirt on him. Pullmann's wife Jenny, on the other hand, fights against corruption in a citizens' init ...

Ich, Ringo und das Tor zur Welt (2010)

Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (2008)

Rodolpho Aranda, head of an Argentinian chemical company, is found murdered in a Berlin bookshop: An elderly librarian named Valerie Steinfeld poisoned him with cyanide and then took her own life. As the LKA was unable to establish any connection between t ...

Beutolomäus und der geheime Weihnachtswunsch (2006)

Unser Kindermädchen ist ein Millionär (2006)

Max Helmer, son of Paul Helmer, a great businessman, must now work for a while as domestic help to know better what is work and the value of money.He will help Elena and her children. ...

Die Braut von der Tankstelle (2005)

Felix from Hamburg comes into possession of a run-down gas station in the middle of the north German provinces through a dubious barter. But that's not all: right across the street, the young Weda also runs a petrol pump business and is of course not very ...

Mann gesucht, Liebe gefunden (2003)

Wieland Busch is a misogynist as it is written in the book. And he even wrote this book himself: Since his bestseller "The Love Lie", Wieland has been a fashion philosopher who defines people as pure instincts. The eloquent thinker brands love and romance ...

Mostly Martha (2001)

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, L ...

The Tunnel (2001)

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel. ...

Alles auf die Siebzehn (1999)

Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur (1997)

Suspicion of Guilt (1996)

Svens Geheimnis (1995)

Sven is a twelve year old pocket-picker and works for Jens, boss of his gang in school. Teacher Vera Loewe becomes one of his victims. When she realizes that he's one of the pupils in her new class, she confronts him and wants to help, even against his wil ...

Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da (1994)

A docudrama about the eventful life of Domenica Niehoff, a high-class prostitute from Hamburg who later became a social worker: Domenica's mother leaves Italy and her abusive husband, makes her way to Germany with her two children, but ends up in prison, a ...

Der letzte Kosmonaut (1994)

Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shokov, fearing for his life, causes galactic chaos. ...

Die Wildnis (1993)

The son of a farmer is bathed in his blood in front of an isolated mountain hut. There is no record of the attacker. Two investigators disappear without a trace. Years later, policeman Brenner sets out to find his colleagues. ...

Schicksalsspiel (1993)

A Romeo-and-Juliet-tale between the soccer-clubs of St. Pauli and Rostock. ...

Duke Ernest (1993)

Young Duke Ernest wants to become a good knight. The circumstances are not in his favour: The emperor wants to claim the Duke's castle and marry his mother. He has Ernest wrongfully accused of murder and thrown in the dungeon. Duke Ernest's only chance to ...

Winckelmanns Reisen (1990)

Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to say, shakes the dandruff from his hair and slips into an innocuous pair of shoes. None of this helps. Wink ...

Wer zu spät kommt – Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990)

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Aust ...

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne (1989)

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth. ...

Dragon Chow (1987)

Shezad is a Pakistani refugee seeking his fortune in Hamburg. At night, he sells roses in pubs. During the day, he is looking for a job. He starts working as a dishwasher and soup cook in a Chinese restaurant. Xiao, the waiter, and Shezad dream of opening ...

Der Marquis von Keith (1986)

Der Polenweiher (1986)

The story of a murder in the Black Forest in 1943. Anna, a Polish maid working as a domestic servant, is found dead in a pond one day. She was expecting a child by the farmer Rungerbühler, who murdered her for fear of the "racial disgrace" being discovere ...

Die Wupper (1985)

Is was, Kanzler? (1984)

October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of cir ...

Ziemlich weit weg (1983)

A struggeling TV documentarian's personal and professional life crumbles as he moves between the city and the countryside. ...

Kiez (1983)

Set in Hamburg's "Hell's Kitchen," a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pi ...

Ruhe sanft, Bruno (1983)

Amphitryon (1982)

Falsche Liebe (1982)

Polnischer Sommer (1981)

Looping (1981)

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way ...