Wolfgang Michael

Of Living Without Illusion (2023)

Suburban summer heat. Merit, Eva, Lion, Rose and David cautiously wind around their conflicted relationships. They talk, but their words don't meet. They play theatre while rehearsing their lives. The garden needs watering. Fears of the future and traces o ...

Music (2023)

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to ...

Homeshopper's Paradise (2022)

Comedy tells the story of an Afro-German punk who starts working as a presenter on a teleshopping channel in order to save the trailer park where she lives with her community. ...

Blood Red Sky (2021)

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide. ...

Mein Schwiegervater, der Camper (2019)

There are fights, the taker qualities decide. Oliver Wnuk lets himself into a painful test in the lead role of the comedy "My father-in-law, the camper": To get his pregnant girlfriend's hand, he has to assert himself against her papa Hartmut, who openly w ...

A Hidden Life (2019)

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II. ...

I Was at Home, But... (2019)

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life. ...

Spätwerk (2018)

Paul Bacher is in crisis. If he could feel in the past as one of the most influential writers of his generation, he has long lacked ideas and impetus for a new great work. His reading tours are becoming more and more a sad affair with too much alcohol and ...

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten (2017)

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support financially. They also have their son Viktor. One day Hanni witnesses an attempted murder on an old lady. The kil ...

Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland (2016)

Paul's life is marked by hunger, poverty and hard work. His sister Magda is sick and needs medicine. In town they meet Master Flintstone. ...

Beyond This Day (2015)

Beyond the Day is a 2015 drama about a retired Professor and a taxi driver who accompanies him for a whole day of driving and talking. ...

Youth (2015)

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what ma ...

Dr. Gressmann zeigt Gefühle (2014)

At his son Konstantin's parents' evening, Philipp Gressmann meets Dolores Sturm - reluctantly, as he emphasizes several times. The woman is completely out of his league. Gressmann, very rich, lives in the posh West End, Dolores in a high-rise estate in the ...

Der Schmetterlingsjäger (2014)

A reflective cinematic essay intertwines philosophical dialogues—between a filmmaker and philosopher—episodes from Vladimir Nabokov's life and literature, and imaginative reconstructions to probe the very texture of time. ...

Nacht ohne Morgen (2011)

At some point, a dead fox lies in the star lawyer's empty swimming pool. Later, much later, the former Attorney General Jasper Dänert lies dead in an empty bed. In between, an entire life comes to an end. Or rather, what was left of it. A powerful drama t ...

Morgen musst du sterben (2010)

Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeritus professor. Everything has always come to him, which John takes for granted. He has never thought about anything until this morning - the Christmas holid ...

Palermo Shooting (2008)

After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down? ...

Nimm dir dein Leben (2007)

In the unworldly village of Dunkelhäuser in Saxony, the clocks tick a little differently than in the rest of the country: the nature-loving farmer goes about his daily work in his Adam costume, while the cow eats comfortably from the gutter and dog and ma ...

Eva Zacharias (2006)

Eva Zacharias moves with her family to the small Alpine town of Moosbach, where her husband Peter has been given a responsible job in the laboratory of a chemical company. Eva and her children Martin and Laura feel right at home in the small town - until s ...

Tausendmal berührt (2004)

Marseille (2004)

A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city. ...

The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne's young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Yo ...

Brothers (2002)

Ernst Stadler is a successful, award-winning chef with his own gourmet restaurant. His older brother Ludwig is also a chef, but is currently in prison. Adrian, the youngest of the three, is a nurse and gay. When their mother dies, they travel together to t ...

Passing Summer (2001)

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers. ...

Nightfall (1999)

A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by German-speaking sots and Portuguese guest workers. An unhappy young couple, Leni and Anton, quarrel and sp ...

My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister, throwing the trio into chaos. ...

I Stayed in Berlin All Summer (1994)

Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing, until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholic observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They ...