Manfred Zapatka

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg,...

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he...

Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl,...

Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS generals...

A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents...

When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third victim of a serial killer

Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura.

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news...

Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case...

40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta...

Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides...

Rudy actually wanted to become one of the greats as a boxer - but when he gets knocked out again and the money is so tight that he has to drive out...

Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe...

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five...

The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu...

As an advisor to the Federal Chancellor, political scientist Sara M. Kardow quickly learns the difference between political theory and practice. The...

When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after...

For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who...

Brussels, 1568: Under Spanish rule, Regent Margaret of Parma seeks leniency, but King Philip II sends the brutal Duke of Alba. Beloved noble Egmont...

Ruth lies to her husband Karl about visiting her sister to sneak away with her lover Andreas. Meanwhile, Karl invites colleague Daniela over. Their...

A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial...

The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property....

Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole...

While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das...

A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years ....

In a vision, the pianist Anna witnesses a murder.

Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and...

In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a...

In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.

One of them is a cab entrepreneur with a Berlin snout, the other an ambitious politician in a fine suit - and the dissimilar twin brothers Jochen and...

A dream comes true for Anne Bruckmann when she travels to Denmark with her husband Norbert to visit the sperm whale grounds at the North Cape in...

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels...

Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker....

A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during...

Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment...

On the highways of the Ruhr region, the paths of four people cross as they try to fulfill their long-lost dreams. One of them is Georg, the coach of...

A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man.

The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his...

Due to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd was quite mixed, ranging...

The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi...

Naive, talkative Hoffi and mouthy Lehmi are as different as can be. But this doesn't dampen their friendship. When they wake up one morning in the...

The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The...

Sociology student Elisabeth befriends 17-year-old Carmen, who needs an abortion. Drawn into Carmen’s fierce world, Elisabeth accompanies her to...

One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of...

TV recording of a production of the play of the same name in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his meteoric...

Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second...

Poet Wigald plans a meticulous suicide, but his estranged father interrupts, seeking reconnection as his marriage crumbles. During their tense...

A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

Two very different groups of guests are waiting for the bride and groom outside the registry office in St. Pauli. Engineer Isabel and ex-convict Ivo...

Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".

In “Death Angel”, Jakob Ziemnicki's film adaptation of the novel “Walküre” by Craig Russel, Peter Lohmeyer alias Jan...

A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future.

A therapist whose interests lie in alternative ways to help the sick and infirm is forced to balance the demands of her professional life with those...