Set in Munich in 1962, the film tells the true story of 12-year-old Karla, who presses charges against her father, seeking protection from his years of abuse. As she navigates the legal system, she forms a bond with Judge Lamy, who becomes her beacon of hope.
Karla’s reluctance to reveal the full extent of her suffering gradually forces Lamy to give her the freedom to tell her story on her terms, putting his own career at risk.

television series

Das Leben ist ein Fest! Oder ein Fiasko.

Drei Frauen und ein Todesfall: Karl stirbt, Chef einer Schnapsbrennerei sowie Mann, Exmann und Bruder der Drei. Sein Tod eröffnet in diesem Familienepos Geheimnisse und die Chance auf Neuanfänge.

ZERV" tells of the first years after the fall of the Wall, the breaks in life courses, of completely different biographies and of the successful coming together in the common fight against crime, which knows no East and West. ZERV stands for the Central Investigation Office for Government and Association Crime, founded in Berlin in 1991 by decision of the federal government.

Plongez dans un thriller palpitant et mystérieux. Une intrigue captivante où la disparition d'Elaine Dawson fait peser les soupçons sur le célèbre avocat Marc Reeve. Un polar intense de vérité et de mensonge.

Wer die letzten Spuren beseitigt, wird zur Zeugin der Toten. Judith Kepler hat schon viel gesehen in ihrem Leben. Sie wird gerufen, wenn die Spurensicherung geht. Sie macht aus Tatorten wieder bewohnbare Räume. Sie ist ein Cleaner. Doch eines Tages stellt ihr Beruf sie vor eine unerwartete Herausforderung. Am Anfang sieht alles aus wie ein ganz normaler Auftrag. Doch in der Wohnung einer grausam ermordeten Frau begegnet Judith ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit.

Jakob Sesam (Rainer Bock), früher ein gefeierter Erfinder und Schöpfer der Spencer-Geschichten, lebt 20 Jahre später ein ganz anderes Leben. In der alten Disco "Coconut Cave" kümmert er sich hingebungsvoll um seine Puppen und tritt bei Kindergeburtstagen und Familienfeiern auf. Doch seine Idylle wird jäh von Peggy (Victoria Trauttmansdorff), der Besitzerin der Disco, bedroht. Sie hat ein lukratives Angebot für das Grundstück erhalten und nun beschlossen, dass die Disco einem Altenheim weichen soll, das ihr einen Millionengewinn einbringen würde. Das bedeutet jedoch, dass Jakob samt seinen Puppen ausziehen muss. Zusammen mit seiner langjährigen Freundin Luise (Margarita Broich) schmiedet Jakob einen verzweifelten Plan, um die Abrisspläne zu durchkreuzen. Da kommt ihm die rettende Idee: Er beschließt, einen Film zu drehen, um die zehn Millionen zusammenzukriegen. Doch leichter gesagt als getan, denn seine Idee stellt ihn vor ungeahnte Herausforderungen.

In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to unsettle her. Petra then realizes that Pistorius is abusing Frank, a 13-year-old. When Frank is told that he has to spend school holidays with Pistorius, he tries to commit suicide. Petra tells Frank's father (the chairman of the school's governing body) but he believes Pistorius instead of his own son. Petra fails to convince people of the man's true nature. 30 years later, Frank goes to Petra, who has long since left the school and has stopped teaching altogether. He has never been able to speak about what happened but now, after the suicide of another pupil, he is no longer willing to remain silent. He wants Petra to bear witness at the school's forthcoming anniversary celebrations.

2016 television film directed by Sherry Hormann

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ticked off that Mirko deserted the clan. But soon the brothers realize that the Talhammers only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father's last wish: to rob a train like real professionals! The coup itself is like a suicide mission, but then Kercher, the Talhammer's biggest nemesis, gets wind of things...

Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a telephone safety helpline for lonely women on their way home, Klara's call reaches him. He soon becomes her last hope for survival and races against time to save her.

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. At three distinct moments across the 20th and 21st centuries, these people — each carrying their own questions and inner struggles — inevitably find themselves drawn into the presence of this tree, full of mystery and meaning.

2015-18 German miniseries

tv show aired in 2022

Trojan is released from jail and goes straight back to his profession as a criminal. He gets hold of a weapon and looks out for new jobs. In just a few takes, Thomas Arslan sets up the anonymous world of his gangster protagonist by falling back on motifs and characters from the genre. The backroom of a car workshop, parking lots, furnished apartments. One meets men and women who distrust each other because they are all out to line their own pockets. The setting changes constantly, with surveillance and chase scenes providing a dynamic narrative rhythm. Since crime makes up Trojan’s daily existence, the film concentrates entirely on the technical nature of a life outside the law. The reduced and clear-cut images – shot with a Red camera 
– highlight the exact sequence of events. In the Shadows (Im Schatten) is a genre film that focuses consistently on the mechanics and external process of a crime. It develops a sense of great suspense, without burdening its figures with personal stories. Each hand movement has to be right.

2012 film by Christian Petzold