Andreas Dresen

20 × Brandenburg

Heike Hartung, Jens Becker

Stopped on Track

Andreas Dresen

Steffi Kühnert, Milan Peschel

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

Herr Wichmann von der CDU

Andreas Dresen

Henryk Wichmann, Markus Meckel

German national election campaign 2002: Henryk Wichmann from the conservative party is fighting a lost battle in the Uckermark.

So schnell es geht nach Istanbul

Andreas Dresen

Yüksel Yolcu, Jana Mattukat

A sensitively told Encounter between a Turkish migrant worker and a woman from East-Berlin, shortly after the fall of the wall - full of incertainty and situational comedy.

Die Polizistin

Andreas Dresen

Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Axel Prahl

Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

Jenseits von Klein Wanzleben

Andreas Dresen

A documentary on day-to-day life of a small GDR-Brigade in Zimbabwe educating young Africans as construction workers. Best intentions meet exported narrow-mindedness.

Nachtgestalten

Andreas Dresen

Myriam Abbas, Dominique Horwitz

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Gundermann

Andreas Dresen

Alexander Scheer, Anna Unterberger

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Changing Skins

Andreas Dresen

Susanne Bormann, Fabian Busch

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils hijack a teacher in the GDR.//"Andreas Dresen is one of the most successful contemporary German filmmakers whose career began as the Berlin Wall was crumbling."// “Andreas Dresen’s films open a window into the hearts and minds of everyday people facing-yet not always surmounting-life’s challenges. Like Andrzej Wajda, Dresen consistently portrays the human condition with honest insight and compassion.”//

Grill Point

Andreas Dresen

Steffi Kühnert, Gabriela Maria Schmeide

In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break out of their miserable daily lives. In this East German post-wall movie Andreas Dresen introduces the sad everyday life of two couples from Frankfurt an der Oder in a honest and tolerable manner.

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

Michael Althen, Hans Helmut Prinzler

Michael Ballhaus, Tom Tykwer

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Summer in Berlin

Andreas Dresen

Inka Friedrich, Nadja Uhl

When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.

Was jeder muss...

Andreas Dresen

Susanne and Dieter are 20 years old. They have just got a Baby. Family life could start now, but Dieter has to join the army. The film accompanies him the first six weeks, shows doubts, insights and hardly acceptable conditions. A little realistic view into the National People's Army shortly before the fall of the wall.

Willenbrock

Andreas Dresen

Axel Prahl, Inka Friedrich

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.

Konsequenzen - Peter, 25

Andreas Dresen

GDR, the last working day of an industrial worker between loud machines, shower cabins and life prospects agains all reason.

Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush

Andreas Dresen

Charly Hübner, Alexander Scheer

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.