Cast: Günther Kaufmann

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Synopsis TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz area of Berlin that he inhabits. Franz is an ex-convict...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Volker Spengler · Ingrid Caven · Gottfried John · Elisabeth Trissenaar

Synopsis When his wealthy male lover dumps him, Erwin Weishaupt makes a desperate attempt to win his man back by having a sex change operation. But the sacrifice is doomed to failure, and as time passes, the doubly-rejected Erwin, now Elvira,...

Direction Stefan Aust · Axel Engstfeld · Alexander Kluge · Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Hans-Michael Rehberg · Axel-Torg Gros · Jürgen Prochnow · Bruno Ganz

Synopsis At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a film collage about war? "Nothing is more discouraging than not...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brad Davis · Franco Nero · Jeanne Moreau · Laurent Malet

Synopsis French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günther Kaufmann · Hanna Schygulla · Ron Randell · Katrin Schaake

Synopsis Somewhere in the American West in 1878, the Nicholsons live in a large house that is more like a mausoleum than a home. The family includes Ben, the domineering patriarch; Katherine, his second wife, a nymphomaniac; and his two sons...

Direction Wolf Gremm

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Günther Kaufmann · Boy Gobert · Arnold Marquis

Synopsis In the near future where "the combine" controls television and news, a bomb threat brings super cop Jansen to the combine's headquarters. Nothing happens, but his boss gives him four days to solve the hoax. Odd things occur: on day...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Volker Spengler · Eddie Constantine · Bulle Ogier

Synopsis A group of young people leads an affluent bourgeois life. Driven on by a deep, private absence of fulfilment, these terrorists come together less by political conviction than by their thirst for action and end up being used in the...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Margarethe von Trotta · Harry Baer · Günther Kaufmann

Synopsis Franz Walsch, a small-time hood, is released from jail and searches for his old acquaintances. He finds his girlfriend Johanna and visits his mother with his brother Marian. Women are attracted to Franz, though he is a man of few...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Michael König · Günther Kaufmann · Katrin Schaake

Synopsis Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Michael König · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Michael Gordon

Synopsis Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and...

Direction Bora Dagtekin

Cast Josefine Preuß · Elyas M'Barek · Anna Stieblich · Adnan Maral

Synopsis Poor Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuß), her life is no picnic and it has left her disappointed and traumatized, thanks to her mother's permissive, hands-off parenting style. Now her mother (Anna Stieblich), a shrink and eternal teenager, has the nerve to...

Direction Michael Herbig

Cast Jonas Hämmerle · Waldemar Kobus · Nic Romm · Christian Koch

Synopsis The story of a young Viking boy who accompanies his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures -- and often is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their...

Direction Christian Ditter

Cast Jonas Hämmerle · Waldemar Kobus · Valeria Eisenbart · Günther Kaufmann

Direction Adnan Köse

Cast Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht · Sabrina Wilstermann · Ismail Deniz · Ali Murtaza

Synopsis A modern fairytale between hiphop, dreams and the first great love. Marvin (Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht) is a passionate rapper. He lives with his successful mother in a stylish villa in the hip part of town. Marvin cant relate at all...

Direction Armin Völckers

Cast Alain Morel · Anna Hausburg · Constantin von Jascheroff · Günther Kaufmann

Synopsis Leroy is an Afro-German boy who must also battle with an identity crisis born of the fact that he is both a highly cultured, well-mannered German family and black. He rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl...

Direction Adnan Köse

Cast Uwe Ochsenknecht · Paul Falk · Ann-Kathrin Kramer · Adnan Köse

Synopsis Germany in the near future: The crime is out of control, and even children, are tried in court. So also is the exceptionally intelligent 12-year-old Martin (Paul Falk), son of a respected judge (Uwe Ochsenknecht), who is suspected of murdering...

Direction Sebastian Niemann

Cast Rick Kavanian · Nora Tschirner · Christian Tramitz · Janek Rieke

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Hanna Schygulla · Kurt Raab

Synopsis People meet and chat at Ridolfo’s Coffeehouse. The conversations are mostly about money. But they are of course also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity, and respectability. But all this has its price. The TV adaptation of the play –...