Rüdiger Vogler

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon....

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...

Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her...

Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more...

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live....

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his...

Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim...

Juliane Kostner is an attractive woman in her prime: charming, fashion-conscious, worldly. It's no coincidence that she has been head buyer at a...

In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a...

Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother –...

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly...

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are...

Frank Drannemann, a passionate star chef and single father, is in a professional and private crisis. Since the tragic accidental death of his beloved...

In 1967, OSS 117 is sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a...

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could...

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

When a World War II bomb with two days to detonation is found in Berlin, Alex and his wife must work quickly to solve a 40-year-old puzzle.

The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend...

Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased...

In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out...

Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son....

Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.

In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of...

Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of...

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.

Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future...

A criminal saves a cop's daughter from drowning, then forces the cop to shelter him from the police after a bank robbery.

A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.

On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

The young musician Katharina keeps afloat after completing her studies with odd jobs over water. But then her grumpy father Hubert suffers a heart...

The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and...

Berlin, 1943, during World War II. Martha Liebermann, an elderly upper-class Jewish woman, faces the decision of her life: should the widow of the...

Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by...

Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious,...

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own...

The art restorer Henriette Frey moves from Vienna to Krems to live with her friend, the musician Ferdinand Sternheim. At a vernissage, Ferdinand...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a...

In 1967, fate on a North German dike miraculously brings together the Black Forest cuckoo clock maker Gottlieb Dobischauf with his chosen one...

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a...

Because her father Erich had a heart attack, Meike returns to her hometown on Lake Constance with her son Paul. But Erich is not happy about the...

Jana hits a man who crosses the road without looking at her. Even though she is not to blame, the thought of Tom, who is now in a coma, never leaves...

TV drama about the 15-time poisoner Gesche Gottfried, who was beheaded in front of 35,000 spectators on April 21, 1831 - the last public execution in...

Hilde Breitner, a contented factory worker, faces upheaval when her husband becomes disabled and dies from occupational illnesses. Financial setbacks...

Building contractor Jochen Schuster takes out loans worth millions to finance a dubious building project and fulfill the extravagant wishes of his...

An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a...

Maria, Dana and Julie learn from their mother's diary that one of them has been adopted.

A director, his fiancee, a scriptwriter and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length.

The sisters couldn't be more different: while journalist Dana is fighting tooth and nail for the position of editor-in-chief, her sister Julie has...

Career woman Dana Weber has been working as editor-in-chief of a glossy magazine for 15 years. Her unshakeable self-confidence suffers its first blow...

The young toolmaker Gerd Asselt knows how to exploit his acquaintance with the influential Albrecht Maybach for a breathtaking career: With pumped...

On the news of his father's death, the successful city doctor Dr. Peter Haller to the funeral in his hometown. What he does not suspect: His father,...

Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the...

Felix is 20 and well on his way to becoming a conscientious police officer, but shortly before his exam he is deployed as a police officer at a...

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and...

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.

Just as Maria is about to leave her husband after 33 years of marriage, entrepreneur Jakob collapses with a stroke. The result: amnesia, where he...

Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film...

Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of...

Munich cardiologist Katja is happy – in two weeks she's marrying wealthy management consultant Richard, and she's about to be promoted at the...

After a long business trip to the USA, shipping company manager Albert Marquard returns to Berlin. However, his girlfriend Astrid Wünsche has...

The small Berlin shipping company Wünsche is a real family business: together with her daughter Claudia and her husband Mario, Astrid...

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead...

The norms of hospital practices are turned upside-down in this complex drama about how many rights are denied patients who do not conform. At the...

Two royal children are abandoned in the river by their evil grandmother just after their birth. However, a miller and his wife have raised the...

While working as a sea rescuer, Katharina Venner finds a young woman, Annika Bohn, murdered at sea. Katharina is shocked: her husband Nils is...

A reluctant boxer is the focus of this unique French romance. Maurice dreams of becoming a violinist. But his father, a former boxing champion...

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...

After much hesitation, the doctor, who fell in love, Peter Hauser finally managed to make his girlfriend Stella a marriage proposal. But when the two...

After the death of his wife, the veterinarian Sebastian Brunnen and his daughter Kira move from Berlin to a small Moselle town to try a new beginning...

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly...

Georg, a self-confident man of 40, feels it as a heavy defeat when his wife suddenly leaves him. He has always been the superior man, to whom his...

A film about an amour fou between a young doctor and a former teacher. She, daughter of German Jews who emigrated to France, returns to Germany one...

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...

Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and...

L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of...

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has...

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in...

Susanne's dream vacation in Florida ends in tragedy. She learns that she has been cheated on by her husband Michael and a little later he is killed...

Oliver has a happy childhood in the streets of Montmartre, Paris, in the 30's. Suddenly his mother dies. He is alone and helpless. He seeks comfort...

“The bear leaves Berlin. It is fed up with its city. On the way two Russian ladies, Anna and her daughter Arisha, hire him as a driver. They...

Four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its “performance.” TV recording...

A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day...

Entrepreneur Mathilda Beer is extremely successful professionally and newly engaged. Suddenly the past enters her life in the form of Mathilda's...

Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone...

Claire, eleven years, carries with it a big secret. But neither her daddy nor anybody else will ever know. Except perhaps Eric, playing her...

Two young men come to the city in need of new experiences and some action, but life in the city is such that there was nothing left to experience. So...

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves...

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his...

The movie "Earthbound" is based on an authentic story: Franz Seeliger, a 75 year old psychiatric patient wants to steer a self-built, muscle...

Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities...

August 1939. The fate of four young people, Ramona, Georges, Brigitte and Hans is upset by the outbreak of war.

Bundeswehr Captain Andreas Kreutzer deserts and sets off for Denmark. In Puttgarden, however, he is met by two military police officers who escort...

Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly...

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of...

October 2018 was the four-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The documentary traces the story of how it was finally...

When Isabelle loses her necklace while walking down the street, the attractive Jimi helps her to fish the pendant out of a gully. Jimi falls in love...

The story of a woman who has to choose between two men. Shot in black and white and in the classic silent movie format. There is no camera movement,...

Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a better post war Germany. However, he gets quickly...

A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.

Documentary that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees...

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the...

Eight months ago, Natasha experienced a difficult breakup and suddenly found herself faced with the ruins of her marriage. Just as she's returning to...

Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where the question concerning happiness is taken very...

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on...

Documentary about the film Alice in the cities.

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

Actors Rüdiger Vogler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim Wender’s seminal...

This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing...

The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became...

Gabry and Lellè are two mothers who are temperamentally opposites. The first is a woman of the aristocracy, refined and in the latest fashion,...

Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a...

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over...

Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a...

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the...

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich...

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).

The "men's vacation" that her husband, the owner of an advertising agency, treats himself to for a week every year turns into a nightmare when his...