Johanna Gastdorf

The true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in Germany's official Foreign Language Film selection for the 2005 Academy Awards. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence. (Zeitgeist Films)

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. His problems in getting back to normal life are shown, with references to his children and wife. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament. (imdb)

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars. (imdb)

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl, must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents.

Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be born healthy, they are at first optimistic that they will be able to meet this challenge - although they have no idea what awaits them. (berlinale.de)

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten. (imdb)

In 1954 20-year-old foreign language expert Toni gets entangled in a war of the two rivalling German secret service organizations. Her loyalties are tested when she finds the dark secrets of her own family. With a stellar ensemble, amazing sets of both the oak-panelled halls of power as well as the seedy German underworld, this six-part spy series and family drama based on historical facts shows a rarely seen epoch between Nazi regime and Cold War and a nation deeply torn and traumatized. (imdb)

In a criminal trial at the Berlin district court, in which the accusation of rape is being heard, it is one statement against the other - a seemingly insoluble dilemma, both legally and humanly, that has enormous explosive power. Because beyond the professional and private future of two people, it is about nothing less than the values and prejudices that define us as a society. It is a case of high public attention. (imdb)