2002 film directed by Hajo Gies

Sieben Monate sind vergangen, seit die lebensfrohe Almbäuerin Rosa Mayrhofer und der charmante Fischhändler Hannes Seeger geheiratet haben und auf Rosas kleine Almhütte gezogen sind. Doch eines Tages hält es der Seebär Hannes in der alpinen Höhenlage nicht mehr aus: Er flieht zurück in sein geliebtes Hamburg. Kurz entschlossen reist die wütende Rosa ihm nach. In der Hansestadt angekommen, beginnt für Rosa und Hannes ein turbulenter Reigen aus Liebe, Eifersucht und Leidenschaft.

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.

2004 television film directed by Hajo Gies

A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself.

Sprich zu mir wie der Regen is made after Tennessee Williams' Talk To Me Like the Rain. "There are two unnamed characters: Man and Woman. They live in a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk. She is wasting away to nothing. There is intimacy between them – the intimacy of desperation. He woke up that morning in some random hotel in a bathtub full of ice cubes. No idea how he got there. He found his way home. Meanwhile, she has drunk nothing but water for 3 days. She stares out the window. She is wasting away. On purpose."