Ronald Zehrfeld

A portrait of the youth in the 60s living in East Germany.

A married couple get seperated when the husband escapes into West-Berlin and the wife, still in East-Berlin, gets into trouble with the State Police.

Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It's a waiting game for Barbara. Her new flat, the neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. (mubi.com)

Fine suffers from not being seen, but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. After the well known director Kasper Friedmann invites Fine for an audition, she convinces him with her acting. But he also sees in Fine a vulnerable personality that matches his vision of Camille, the main character in his next play. Fine gets her first big part that she in no way wants to lose. (imdb)

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country -- if they inform on their co-workers and union leader. (tiff.net)

Eleven years ago a little girl vanished from a small city near the german-czech border. Her body was never found but a mentally handicapped person got to covess murder. Now a woman is found murdered in the same city and a police officer from outside suspects a link to the missing girl.

An Episode-movie about a surealistic Germany, where they wear school-uniforms, where the sun always shines and where people live alone in the woods. More or less the episodes come together, but never connect to one big image of this wired, in a way pretty lost country.

A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. (imdb)

Jesper is a soldier in the German army. Although his brother was killed whilst serving in Afghanistan, he nevertheless reports for a new tour of duty in this war zone. He and his unit are to protect a remote village from the Taliban. One of the people accompanying Jesper is a young interpreter, Tarik, whose job includes mediating between soldiers and villagers. Both sides have a hard time trying to overcome the differences in their respective ways of life. (imdb)

This 3 part mini series deals with the fortunes of german village Tannbach, during World War II, until its seperation after the war.

Lena Ferben has lived almost half a lifetime when she loses all of her memories, the entire "I" of her self. Her husband is suddenly a stranger, her friends are unknown to her, her whole life is a fictional narrative. She must decide whether to become who she was or to remain someone else... (filmportal.de)

This 10 part multi-layered, rich and fast paced TV series follows the stories of characters in and around the Russian mafia in Berlin...

The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life. (imdb)

The life of a German-Jewish judge family is destroyed by the Nazi persecution in the 1930s. The children are sent to England with a Kindertransport, he goes into Cuban exile, she remains in war Germany. In 1947 the broken family reunited. (imdb)

Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple. (imdb)

The relationship between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.

Eleven-year-old Billie loves space and everything related to it. No wonder, after all her mother was an astronaut herself. Together with her friend Dino, Billie builds a radio telescope that actually receives signals. No one believes the children are really communicating with aliens. So the two of them continue their research and sneak onto the premises of the ESA. While Billie and Dino are hiding from security, they don't realize that they are in a rocket bound for space. (Constantin Film)

Revolves around the Lunies family whose estranged members include mother Lissy, son Tom and daughter Ellen. They reconnect after each of them faces death in one way or another.

Carl’s life runs like clockwork: every day, he goes door-to-door delivering books to a handful of loyal customers. He knows their preferences and takes pride in selecting the perfect story for each of them. But his well-ordered life is turned upside down by a cheerful nine-year-old girl, Schascha, who decides to join him on his daily book round. Schascha’s unique outlook on life helps Carl to come out of his shell and realise that his customers are so much more than just that to him.

An ex-Federal police officer turned private eye investigates a renowned scientist suspected of rape, but things are not always as they seem. (imdb)

A bus stop deep in Brandenburg. Two men are waiting for a bus and talking about their lives. Frankly, honestly. The topics are diverse, the dialogue directly from the Brandenburg soul. (imdb)