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Einfach raus (1999)
Character: Karin Hallbrandt
"Einfach raus!" is the wish that 18-year-old Andreas has had for a long time. Simply get out of the GDR and go to the West to realize his life's dream and study physics. Suddenly, in the historic summer of 1989, his dream becomes reality. The Hungarian-Austrian border is surprisingly opened and the first refugees ask for asylum at the German embassy in Budapest. When Andreas spends his vacation with his parents at a campsite in Hungary, he takes the opportunity and tries to escape to the west at night and in fog.
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Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile (2001)
Character: Friede
Journalist Elias investigates the background to a suicide in a village in East Westphalia. Günther Sperl, son of the local butcher, has taken his own life after years of humiliation and despair. His oversensitive talent was not appreciated in the stuffy provincial atmosphere. Elias, who shares his fear of deviating from the "normal", feels a strong inner closeness to him and delves deeper and deeper into the outsider's past. During his research, he himself experiences the coldness and narrow-mindedness of the villagers.
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Angst (1994)
Character: Claudia Seitz
Seitz has been abusing his underage daughter for years and is the father of her first child. He is a brutal perpetrator of violence and has several relevant criminal records. When Tanja confides in her new boyfriend, he persuades her to go to the police. Seitz is sentenced and threatens to beat Tanja to death while still in court. Tanja and her boyfriend have long been married and have children of their own when, after seven years, fate catches up with them again: they are terrified of Seitz, who is soon released from prison and threatens revenge. Tanja and her family turn to the authorities in vain. They can only intervene if there is a concrete threat. But then it will be too late, Tanja fears. Too late for her children and herself. Together, the family gets a rifle...
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Die unverbesserliche Barbara (1977)
Character: Mausi
The former athlete Barbara follows her husband to the province and attempts to masters her new life, even after her separation from him.
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Der Hahn ist tot (2000)
Character: Beate Sperber
After work, only the canary is waiting for Rosi. Even her friend secretly giggles about the "old bag who's missed out."
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Tiefe Furchen (1965)
Character: Marianne
Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red Shoemaker" also returns to his home village. His wife is dead and others live in his house: Gebhardt, an employee on the farm of the large farmer Winter, and his family. The "Red Shoemaker" comes to stay with Hübner and his daughter Agnes. Over the past terrible years, he had repeatedly felt the hatred within him and wanted to take revenge on those who had sent him to the concentration camp. But now he wants to look to the future and takes on the position of mayor here in the village. He works to ensure that the village is supplied with food and tries to ensure that the fascist ideology disappears from people's minds. In doing so, he also makes enemies.
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Eine Pyramide für mich (1975)
Character: Margot
A conference is to be held once again to discuss the construction of a new dam, which Professor Paul Satie rejects. During a train journey, he spontaneously leaves the train. Here in Wolfsgrün, from 1948 to 1950, he helped build the old, now far too small dam as a youth brigadier. He and the others who helped build it have erected a monument to this. A monument with his name on it. Is that perhaps why he is against the new dam?
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Einer vom Rummel (1983)
Character: N/A
19-year old Benjamin, called Ben, works as a cashier on the fairground und is impressing girls with his youthful self-confidence. After an argument with his uncle, who had caught the boy with a 16-year old girl, Ben leaves his familiar surroundings und ventures into the world beyond the fairground. At Berlin′s Ostbahnhof, he meets the much older cookmaid Hanna, who puts homeless Benjamin up in her flat. Ben finds work as a welder in a factory where he at first has to cope with the prejudice of his sceptical co-workers.
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Fernes Land Pa-Isch (2000)
Character: Mutter Ilona
The 16-year-old Umberto, who lives in an East German small town with his mother and his little half-sister Bianca, dreams of Pa-isch, the country to which Bianca's Angolan father returned long ago. Pa-isch, a verballhorn of the Portuguese word for country, is far enough to no longer have to see the changing men's acquaintances of his drinking mother. When the family moves to Hamburg, everything gets even worse. The mother professionalises her constant partner changes and becomes ill with all abundance. Umberto's flame Tschibo also turns out to be a prostitute. Umberto is full of nose. He steals a heavy machine and breaks up to Africa with Bianca.
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Strandgut (2000)
Character: N/A
The oppressing life of a father and his son with a tragic ending and what can happen if a dream suddenly comes true.
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Kinder des Satans (1995)
Character: Mutter Preiss
When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise. She believes that the Satan disciples are involved in the case.
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Ohne Dich (2014)
Character: Martinas Mutter
Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany - until one day Ralf does not return from a sailing trip. The Breton police believe in a sailing accident and make Martina little hope that her friend has survived. But Martina does not want to accept Ralf's death and begins a desperate search on the coast of Brittany. However, when this remains in vain, Martina returns to Germany.
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Hannas Baby (2002)
Character: Kerstin Bach
The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that abortion be performed because of a hereditary defect in his family.
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Tränen eines Siegers (1995)
Character: Anika Bauer
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 rise, but loses sight of his familiar surroundings and falls in with the wrong friends.
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Küss mich, Genosse! (2007)
Character: Alexandra Lütjens-Petersen / Edith Lütjens
Jenny is hit in the head by a soccer ball. When she comes to, the clock has turned back exactly 32 years! It is June 21, 1974, the year of the football World Cup, one day before the football match between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. Jenny experiences two turbulent days at the side of her future parents - in both parts of Germany.
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Sanfte Morde (1997)
Character: Dr. Weber
Bernd Schadewald's thriller based on a screenplay by Burkhard Driest.
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Eiskalte Liebe (1997)
Character: Hanna Scholz
At the funeral of her murdered friend, a young woman meets a charming man. They quickly become a couple, but then the man comes under suspicion of murder and rape. Charges cannot be brought due to lack of evidence, but the woman, growing suspicious, turns away from him and begins investigating her lover’s past—an endeavor that puts her in grave danger.
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Feuer unter Deck (1982)
Character: Caramba
Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be converted into a floating restaurant. Otto, whose his strong attachment to the ship has already cost him his relationship with his girlfriend Caramba (Renate Krößner), refuses to take another job and instead joins a railway construction brigade.
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Überleben an der Wickelfront (2012)
Character: Hannelore
The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the management of her law firm. So Dieter stays at home and is looking forward to the time out: sleeping late in the morning, having a leisurely breakfast and playing with the twins in the afternoon. Puppy cake! Balancing career and fatherhood turns into a balancing act between career women and cake batter.
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Überleben an der Scheidungsfront (2014)
Character: Hannelore
Journalist Dieter Lindemann believes he has found the perfect solution for everyday family and work life with his wife Esther and their two five-year-old twins and three-year-old daughter with the principle of a "50:50 split" of job, housework and childcare. Unfortunately, Dieter realizes too late that they have forgotten to plan for each other as a couple, have grown apart in the stress of everyday life and only see each other when they hand over the children. That's why he is blindsided when Esther confesses that she has fallen in love with her attractive Danish lawyer colleague Lars Knudsen.
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Nordkurve (1993)
Character: Uschi Klamm
Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at any price, fighting with all means, intrigue, deceit and blackmail. After all, the all-important game takes place in the afternoon and 40,000 people want to be there. Everyone is preparing for it in their own way, everyone wants to make the deal of a lifetime. Substitute player Niebitsch is eagerly awaiting his appearance. Player agent Roland F. Beyer is trying to pull off the really big deal. The club is on the brink of financial ruin. President Vischering only thinks about the invitation to appear on "Aktuelle Sportstudio". And Gottschalk begins to systematically get drunk. In the end it is clear: Herberger's wisdom "The game lasts 90 minutes" is wrong. The game lasts all day, every Saturday...
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Cyankali (1977)
Character: Hete
Berlin, end of the 1920s. Young factory workers Hete and Paul are expecting a child. When first Paul and then Hete become unemployed, the two look for ways to terminate the pregnancy. Hete goes to a doctor, but he refuses to give her the necessary document for the abortion. As a result, Hete and Paul want to carry out the abortion themselves, using a stolen instrument. Fearing for Hete, Paul aborts the attempt. So Hete turns to an illegal abortionist, who sends the feverish girl away with a bottle of cyanide, which is supposed to help in small doses. Hete goes to her mother, who takes care of her and also gives her the cyanide drops. But Hete exceeds the dose.
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Jenseits der Mauer (2009)
Character: Brigitte Schröder
In September 1974, at the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two little children, are caught trying to escape to the West. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son Klaus, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption. If the Molitors refuse these conditions, they will both be imprisoned for a year—and both their children will be taken from them. This situation forms the basis for an emotional story in which various destinies in East and West intertwine, reaching a dramatic climax with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Solo Sunny (1980)
Character: Ingrid „Sunny“ Sommer
Sunny is the singer of a band trying to establish itself in the East Berlin music scene. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and with her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with Ralph, an amateur saxophonist and philosophy student, who writes her a very personal song—but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle are not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show host, she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.
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Marry Me! (2015)
Character: Uschi
Kishori, unmarried and mother to a daughter, and her sister Sonal live in a house in Berlin. The house and a cafe on the ground floor are led by Kishori. All of a sudden, her strict and traditional grandmother comes for a visit from India. She wants to sell the house unless Kishori agrees to marry the father of her daughter, Robert. As Kishori feels obliged to all the befriended inhabitants of the house, including Robert, to keep the house, Kishori und Robert prepare to have a traditional Indian wedding.
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Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet (1979)
Character: Tilli
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love; they get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go back to work after her maternity leave, they clash for the first time; Jens insists that she remain a full-time wife and mother. Until Death Do Us Part turns an actual police report into a gripping drama, as the director explores the depths of his characters' emotions, driving the conflict to a catastrophic climax.
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Helden wie wir (1999)
Character: Frau Lorenz, Klaus' Lehrerin
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
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Vergiss Dein Ende (2011)
Character: Hannelore
Hannelore (65) has been caring for her husband Klaus (69), who has dementia, for four years. She is now at the end of her tether. When her neighbour Günther (65) unexpectedly goes away on a trip, Hannelore simply follows him—leaving her husband alone at home. What Hannelore doesn't know is that Günther has just lost his partner to cancer and wants to take his own life in a vacation home on the coast.
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Alles auf Zucker! (2004)
Character: Linda
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
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Invincible (2001)
Character: Mutter Breitbart
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
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Mondscheinkinder (2006)
Character: Mutter
Paul wants to become an astronaut. It is his favourite game. Pauls older sister, Lisa is playing his assistant in the spaceship. Lisa meets Simon and he also joins in but when Paul's physical conditions becomes bad, the game needs to favour Paul..
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Gossenkind (1992)
Character: Hanna Brenner
Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins.
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Geliebte Diebin (2002)
Character: Britta Böge
Jill Mohnhaupt is a master thief who has long been on Inspector Britta Böge’s list. Insurance agent David Assmann also wants to finally catch Jill, so he and his brother Georg plan to set a trap for her. Meanwhile, Jill has entirely different plans: she wants to steal the world’s oldest chess set.
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Anderst schön (2015)
Character: Katrin Müller
Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there.
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Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr (1979)
Character: Moos-Lene
A morality tale from the time of the Saxon Kingdom. The von Siebenthal volunteer fire department has nothing to do. When their local pub is in a very dilapidated state, but the landlord has no money to renovate it, the fire department tries to help out by setting fire to it themselves, but it doesn't quite work. They look for a new object to set fire to, the supposedly empty prison. But there is only one prisoner, who is heroically rescued by Captain Kaden.
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Waschen, Schneiden, Legen (1999)
Character: N/A
Aged hairdresser Hans Anton Schatz still lives at home with his mother and works in the small-town salon around the corner. He adores the florist Melanie, but she is engaged to a wild Ruhr proletarian. Shortly before the wedding, she is overcome with panic and persuades Hans Anton to take a bus trip to Berlin. Hans Anton blossoms in the big city and falls in love with an extroverted TV presenter, whom he pursues all the way to her show.
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Zutaten für Träume (2001)
Character: Jutta Störmer
Jutta and Eric were once lovers and aspiring chefs in the Spree Forest region of East Germany. Too prone too brilliant but risky improvisation, Jutta fell into obscurity; Eric defected to the West and became famous. Now he has returned to enlist her aid of crucial cooking contest - does this portend rekindled romance or cynical exploitation?
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Der Skorpion (1997)
Character: Lili Berthold
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
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Grüß Gott, Genosse (1993)
Character: Marla Wendler
In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the line-loyal educator with a whitewashed CV is immediately accepted back into the teaching profession. He advances to become a model Bavarian. Until one day a pupil from bygone GDR days turns up...
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