Cast: Otto Sander

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Synopsis TV Miniserie (1985-1987). 3 episodes. A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Synopsis The Boat (1981) follows the harrowing journey of a German U-boat crew during World War II as they navigate the treacherous waters of the Atlantic. Led by their seasoned captain, the men face relentless enemy attacks, dwindling supplies, and the...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Bruno Ganz · Peter Falk · Solveig Dommartin · Otto Sander

Synopsis Wings of Desire (1987) is a poetic and meditative film set in divided Berlin. It follows two invisible angels, Damiel and Cassiel, who observe and comfort the city's inhabitants, listening to their thoughts and dreams. While Cassiel remains detached, Damiel...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis The Tin Drum (1979) follows Oskar Matzerath, a boy in pre-World War II Germany who, at the age of three, decides to stop growing in protest against the adult world. Armed with his tin drum and a piercing scream, he...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Nicola Zarbo · Otto Sander · Ida Di Benedetto · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train. The young man is arrested after he kills two Germans...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Otto Sander · Bruno Ganz · Nastassja Kinski · Martin Olbert

Synopsis A sequel to Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire), it again follows a group of angels in the German capital who look longingly upon the life of humans. Sequel from "Wings of Desire" (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987),...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Daniel Olbrychski · Otto Sander · Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Edith Clever · Bruno Ganz · Peter Lühr · Edda Seippel

Synopsis 1799, the General Souvarof invades Italy. The Marquise of O… is a young widow. Her father commands a zone in the thick of battle that is soon overcome by the Russians. The soldiers are about to ravage the Marquise when...

Direction Joseph Vilsmaier

Cast Ben Becker · Heino Ferch · Ulrich Noethen · Heinrich Schafmeister

Synopsis Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because...

Direction Doris Dörrie

Cast Franka Potente · Steffen Wink · Anica Dobra · Iris Berben

Synopsis Am I Beautiful? is about the dream of one's ability to be someone else. The film is a kind of a round, tells of people who want to make a change, come together and lose sight of each other again,...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Piotr Lysak · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ralf Wolter

Synopsis In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Meret Becker · Corinna Harfouch · Anian Zollner · August Zirner

Synopsis East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next...

Direction Martin Walz

Cast Udo Samel · Peter Lohmeyer · Evelyn Künneke · Leonard Lansink

Synopsis The plot takes place in New York, and in the present. In a Hotel called "Quicky" a professor blackmails a student of his into having sex with him. But when the professor puts on a condom, the carnivorous condom bites...

Direction Nicolette Krebitz

Cast Nina Hoss · Devid Striesow · Franziska Petri · Marc Hosemann

Direction Arend Agthe · Renata Kaye · Wolf Armin Lange · Herwig Fischer

Cast Werner Knoedgen · Thomas Rohloff · Henriette Heinze · Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis Stories and adventures with Rabe Rudi, the suitcase and Mrs. Siebenstein.

Direction Sandra Prechtel

Cast Roland Klick · Eva Mattes · Otto Sander · David Alexander Hess

Synopsis The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared...

Direction Ingemo Engström · Harun Farocki

Cast Avinho Barbeitov · Ingemo Engström · Harun Farocki · Hanspeter Krüger

Direction Carl Schenkel

Cast Dave Balko · Hanns Zischler · Rolf Eden · Otto Sander

Synopsis Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration...

Direction Goran Rebic

Cast Otto Sander · Robert Stadlober · Annabelle Mandeng · Florin Piersic

Direction Rosa von Praunheim

Cast Friedel von Wangenheim · Ben Becker · Wolfgang Völz · Otto Sander

Synopsis The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including...