Direction: Christian Schwochow

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Christian Schwochow. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cracks in the Shell

2011 · Movie · 113 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Stine Fischer Christensen · Ulrich Noethen · Anna Maria Mühe · Dagmar Manzel

Synopsis Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head...

6.9

89 votes

6.9

89 votes

The German Lesson (Deutschstunde)

2019 · Movie · 130 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Ulrich Noethen · Tobias Moretti · Levi Eisenblätter · Tom Gronau

Synopsis Young Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the II World War in an institution for difficult to educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject "The pleasures of duty", but has no idea. Only when he...

6.6

208 votes

6.6

208 votes

Bad Banks (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 52 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Paula Beer · Barry Atsma · Désirée Nosbusch · Albrecht Schuch

Synopsis TV Series (2018-2020). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far...

6.3

146 votes

6.3

146 votes

Munich: The Edge of War

2021 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast George MacKay · Jannis Niewöhner · Jeremy Irons · Alex Jennings

Synopsis A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

Paula

2016 · Movie · 123 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Carla Juri · Albrecht Schuch · Roxane Duran · Joel Basman

Synopsis This movie, set in the 19th and 20th Century, follows the life of the german artist Paula Modersohn-Becker. It especially focuses on her most productive years in Worpswede (Germany) and Paris (France). One central topic is the discrimination of women...

6.0

499 votes

6.0

499 votes

5.4

679 votes

A Dangerous Fortune (TV)

2016 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Dominic Thorburn · Laura de Boer · Jeanette Hain · Thorsten Merten

Synopsis A shocking secret behind a young boys death leads to three generations of treachery in this breathtaking saga of love, power and revenge, set amid the wealth and decadence of Victorian England.

5.0

57 votes

5.0

57 votes

Je Suis Karl

2021 · Movie · 126 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Luna Wedler · Jannis Niewöhner · Edin Hasanovic · Milan Peschel

Synopsis Maxi, the survivor of a terrorist attack, joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement; one that aims for nothing less than seizing power.

4.9

103 votes

4.9

103 votes

Direction Züli Aladag · Florian Micoud Cossen · Christian Schwochow

Cast Anna Maria Mühe · Ben Münchow · Albrecht Schuch · Sebastian Urzendowsky

Synopsis After German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them.

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The Tower (TV)

2012 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Hans-Uwe Bauer · Klaus Bieligk · Martin Bruchmann · David C. Bunners

Synopsis A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the...

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November Child

2008 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Anna Maria Mühe · Ulrich Matthes · Christine Schorn · Hermann Beyer

Synopsis Robert (Ulrich Matthes) is a college professor and struggling writer living in Konstanz, a town in Southern Germany. Robert has been working on a novel for years, but beyond a rough idea about life in Germany before the Berlin Wall...

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Bornholmer Straße (Bornholmer Strasse)

2014 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Schwochow

Cast Charly Hübner · Milan Peschel · Ulrich Matthes · Rainer Bock

Synopsis A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.

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Not rated