Rolf Kanies

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Eric is a successful entrepreneur - in an unusual line of work: he provides people who want to cheat with watertight alibis. When Eric sees his...

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal...

Catastrophic power outage in Berlin. Poorly maintained grids, greedy power companies and corrupt politicians are to blame. The result is riots and...

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant loved by the people around him, invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family's...

The promise of a better life is pivotal in ten-year-old Fee’s decision to travel from her home in Romania to Germany. But she falls victim to...

When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of...

Mary is a lawyer whose successful career is turned upside down when she has a car accident. Forced to live in a wheelchair she is fired and abandoned...

A man is on the verge of death from a bee sting. His daughter, a fearless young, starts a race against time to find the antidote that may save the...

A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.

The last years of Heinrich George's life are reconstructed with documentary footage and play scenes. His son Götz, named after Heinrich's...

A comedy directed by Vesna Jovanoska.

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in which 83 people lost their lives. Although the...

Anyone looking for Austrian cuisine in Dresden goes to the restaurant "Lieblich an der Elbe" in the idyllic Elbschlösschen, which Maria Lieblich...

Silvia's career as an actress goes into decline after a few unfortunate statements recorded with a microphone hidden in his dressing room. On the...

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

When Kathrin Bahro once again plays babysitter for the neighbors, a thief breaks into the house. Kathrin confronts the intruder, who escapes after a...

Investment advisor Maria-Luise Wagner crashes in a helicopter. St. Peter has fetched her from heaven and reads her the riot act.

Dramatic TV two-parter about a married doctor, who falls in love with a mine deterrent in Vietnam.

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...

Aurélie, a young restaurant owner, is unhappy because her boyfriend has left her overnight. Desperate with lovesickness, she wanders the...

True story about how famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann located the ruins of the mythical ancient city of Troy in Turkey...

After many years, Detective Chief Inspector Steffen Gellhagen returns to his home town to solve the case of a missing schoolgirl. The former teacher...

Five women, five lifestyles that could not be any different: her career at an agency takes top priority for business woman Fe, even over her...

This TV movie focuses on an average East German citizen, who accidentally becomes a Cold War victim. Shortly before his wedding day, East German...

Oliver and Michael want to enjoy life, but the 20-year-olds don't have enough money to do so, so when they are offered jobs in a trendy beer garden,...

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off...

Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a...

This teenage drama deals with the emotional chaos of a high school graduate at the beginning of a new period of his life. 19-year-old Daniel is...

Professional diver Sven has a guilty conscience: his job means he has too little time for his family. He even almost misses the cruise ship on which...

Highly intelligent professor helps solving crimes.

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

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

Kathrin is almost 40 and the mother of two teenagers. Since breaking up with her ex, who wants to sneak back into the family, the journalist has been...

True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

Doctor Dahna lives with her mother Ayana in Kenya, where she runs the children's aid organization Hekima Foundation. When Ayana is dying, she reveals...

The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving,...

Archaeologist Schlesinger is convinced that he has discovered the mortal remains of Jesus Christ. Because the discovery would shake Christianity, a...

The story of a group of young American Christian fundamentalists on a mission to Berlin to try to bring the Germans back to Jesus.

Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit...

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she...

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son,...

Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two...

Ottmar hands his Hamburg bakery to daughter Janina, retiring after 40 years with his wife to compatriot Beinle's fancy seniors residence in Pattaya,...

For Johannes and Lydia Klare, their faith in God comes first. Together they lead a small community in Stuttgart, successfully. People listen to them,...

Ex-judge Lena Kalbach has to represent a Catholic priest, of all people, in her first appearance as a lawyer. The priest Lukas Schloss has embezzled...

The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the...

In 1956 Stalinstadt, East Germany, during the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, local teenagers perform a seemingly harmless act...

The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in...

Karen, a maths teacher, finds herself involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a...

The young Berlin anesthesiologist Nora is facing exciting times: her partner Eric makes her a marriage proposal and she has the opportunity to give...

After police officer Jan Wiegand is critically injured in action, public prosecutor Judith Schrader throws herself into the fight against organized...

Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father’s violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand...