Almut Zilcher

Marga is a forty-two-year-old actress who seems to have already passed the peak of her career. After starting her career in theater on the country's...

Kate is a young manic-depressive actress. One day, mentally drained and desperate, she checks into a suicide hotel. The hotel offers customers a...

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of...

Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange,...

Two-year-old Paulina is suddenly no longer in her crib, and everything points to an abduction. But the hijacker does not answer.

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

As an architect Robert Cortin is self-confident, but his private life is shaky. His wife Vera, a gynecologist, cannot have children. They have tried...

Marie races along the highway at 240 km/h. On this August night, she doesn't want to be anywhere else. She stops at a gas station for one last...

Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin.