Johann Jürgens

Cracks in the Shell

Christian Schwochow

Stine Fischer Christensen, Ulrich Noethen

An insecure drama student is given the lead role in a play by her director, but the role she is supposed to play is at odds with her real personality. The fusion of her stage persona and her real life persona becomes a psychological tour de force for the young woman, changing her private life.

Feierabendbier

Ben Brummer

Tilman Strauss, Julia Dietze

Magnus once had a girlfriend and a kid. But his girlfriend now has somebody new. And so now Magnus has his classic car, and a bar. Everything about Magnus’ manner makes him a hipster – par excellence. He has a couple of close friends, all cut from the same cloth. But then one night his car is stolen and Magnus falls into a kind of cultivated despair.

The Silence

Baran bo Odar

Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Young Goethe in Love

Philipp Stölzl

Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein

After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

Wir wollten aufs Meer

Toke Constantin Hebbeln

Alexander Fehling, August Diehl

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.

Tödliche Geheimnisse

Sherry Hormann

Nina Kunzendorf, Anke Engelke

Schmitke

Štěpán Altrichter

Peter Kurth, Johann Jürgens

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

Kruso

Thomas Stuber

Jonathan Berlin, Albrecht Schuch

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.