Movies: Jan Georg Schütte

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay war...

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate....

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the po...

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a luxury hotel with a wellness oasis. The villagers are skeptical, even though Micha loudly promises ne...

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and...

Kati leaves her hometown - a small provincetown in northwestern Germany - to live in the city of Hamburg. Being about 18 years old she has just finished school and seeks her freedom away from home. She knows she loves women but never dared to live ac...

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Early 1980s: Martin Siedler, a successful press officer for a leading pharmaceutical company, believes he has the trust of his boss Walter Lange. But then he finds out that his company's supposed miracle drug, which he is promoting, carries a deadly ...

A real and a fake Gauguin take Dupin back to the 19th century....

Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple....

On the North Sea coast, jack of all trades Knud tries his hand at crab fishing, betting on sports and small-time cons. He’s just trying to score an award for his Shanty Choir, which has seen better days, when his son Lenny shows up for the first time...

Tom does not have it easy. At the student theater, his friend Jan and his beloved Annelie play the leading roles; the inconspicuous Tom, on the other hand, makes the prop. When he realizes that he must finally take his life, and especially love, into...

Medical student Hanna works in the pathology department during her studies. On her very first day at work, she is confronted with the body of her ex-boyfriend Michael, who allegedly died as the result of an accident. However, when she discovers discr...

A journalist bites off more than she can chew investigating a deadly secret....

An ihrem 5. Hochzeitstag haben Albert und Birgit ihre drei engsten Freunde zu einem Festessen in ihr Haus auf dem Land eingeladen. Die Idylle entpuppt sich als schwer vermintes Gelände. Ungeahnte amouröse Verwicklungen kommen nach und nach auf den Ti...

A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secre...

Patriarch and entrepreneur August Manzl is terminally ill. As his four grown-up children are all spoiled and sluggish, he comes up with a rather cynical idea to determine the future leader of the families empire: whoever of his children shows the cou...

An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air....

It's been 25 years since they graduated from high school or could have done it if they had not left before, made honors rounds or simply failed. Now they meet again at the class reunion, the former best of class, the former genius, the ex-class brat,...

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