Movies: Megaherz

Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archiv...

The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to time, they gather to talk about everything. One time, they gather for dinner at the second couple's ...

Sixty years after the Holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on Jewish life in Germany in the early 2000s....

Staged by the Salzburger Marionettentheater. Wagner's great epic condensed into two hours — compact, humorous and very exciting! Marionettes encounter actors and take us into a time tunnel of mythological entanglements....

The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz’s autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Domi...

Director Michael Gutmann comes to term with his own family's past by accompanying his mother to the Polish village of Klodzko where she grew up....

Two interns from a Munich film company fly to the Caribbean for a vacation - not out of mutual sympathy, but because they hope to seduce their boss in intimate togetherness. The trip ends in a fiasco, but also in great love....

A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which...

A portrait of the young generation in Germany during the 1990s, denying a stereotyping from the outside....

Since 1983, author and director Franz X. Gernstl has been traveling across Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland in a VW bus. Together with his friends, cameraman Hans Peter Fischer and sound engineer Stefan Ravasz, Gernstl is always on the l...

In Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers, adventurer Tobi needs to find his best friend from childhood Marina, the only person who can help him unlock a mysterious treasure chest. Tobi’s search for Marina kickstarts an adventure tha...

A documentary by Fatih Akin about turkish immigrants in Germany....

TV presenter Willi Weitzel travels around the world and tells remarkable stories....

Director Peter Patzak visits and interviews friends who decided to move from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and New York City....

Loose acquaintances meet up again 25 years later and tell stories about their time together....

What happens when you fly to Goa to capture the crazy reality of the “enlightenment industry and drug use” in a documentary? The result can only be one thing......

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a ...

A documentary-style essay of the state of the nation in the late 1990s in Berlin....

In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died in Almeria, Spain, while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie's new film. A year later, she set out to retrace her grief and pain in a very private film....

Klaus Lemke steps out of the door of his Munich apartment and stands on Leopoldstrasse, where he has “lived” for many years. His documentary film is an avowedly gaudy declaration of love for Schwabinger Strasse, the people who live there and their re...