Alexander May

Fictional story of a traffic accident that triggers a catastrophe near a small village in 1990. A liquefied gas truck collides with a transport truck...

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail....

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi...

Willi Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he...

East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo...

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find...

A retirement home. An elderly gentleman is conversing with a paralyzed countess. When she asks him why he was awarded the title of advisor and an...

Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40...

Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded...

This bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless...

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want...

Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design...

A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers.

Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney...

On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge...

A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.

Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.

A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey...

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper...

Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of...

The last journey of Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach leads from Leipzig to Potsdam. Already 60 years old, he hopes that an audition with the...

1984 in the GDR. Jürgen and Vera Färber spend their vacation with their children Martha and Mischa in the eastern Harz Mountains. Shortly...

In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have...

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who...

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the...

In 1929, on the shores of Lake Constance, zeppelins are being built in the small town of Friedrichshafen. Fascinated by airships, Robert gets a job...

Mozart, a cute little dog, has inherited a fortune. You'd think a heavenly dog's life was certain. But trouble threatens the little treasure, because...

The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their...

Georg and Eva have to keep their love secret: Georg is a catholic priest in Bavaria, Germany, obliged to celibacy. They suffer under the situation,...

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...