Movies: Simon Schwarz

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show....

In the second part of the successful children's book adaptation, Franz, Gabi and Eberhard go on a turbulent hunt for criminals during the summer holidays – and uncover a completely different secret in the process....

Pretty student Ina arrives in the small town of Meschede. After setting up a date with the bus driver Speedy, she flirts with other locals at the local private airfield. She soon begins affairs with the banker Peter Nase, the sawmill owner Wagner and...

A stubborn, atmospheric and brutal view of the great love between father and daughter....

An attractive farmer's wife attends a tango course in Munich with a friend while her two grumpy husbands stay on the farm. In the city, she attracts the attention of a passionate Argentinean man who woos her and makes her dream of a different future....

Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans....

Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now close the lovingly run shop. So far, she was able to withstand Ortner's harassment, but the dreamy ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle for acknowledgment in nationalistic Germany during World War I lead to the development and use of the first chemical weapons....

The long-lost bon vivant Mike Bittini learns that his brother has fallen into a coma. He returns to his family, sneaks in like a hawk in the chicken coop and mixes things up properly. The uncle comes to help, brings chaos and finds love....

Doctor affected by cancer tries to reconcile with her daughter in view of her imminent death....

Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of a pandemic....

Since 1920, "Jedermann," "The Play of the Rich Man's Death" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has been performed at the Salzburg Festival in front of the mighty Salzburg Cathedral. In 2013, Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes, as the directing team, took on the c...

A man who wants to steal an old two-seater rocket from the technical museum out of love can't be a bad person. It must have hit him hard. Here's the thing: Manuel is in love with his best friend Mia, but she doesn't know about it because Manuel doesn...

Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men" in the German Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, which in 1941 during the Second World ...

Shortly before her wedding, Sonja meets a photographer in the botanical garden. On a whim, she tells him the love story of her youth: in the summer of 1976, 12-year-old Sonja moves to the countryside with her family. Here she meets the boy next door,...

1974, the year of the oil crisis and car-free day. Things are going haywire for the Redlich and Berkovitz families. Elfi Redlich finds her supposed great love in Ireland. Daughter Moni invests her 15,000 Schilling marriage premium in her first apartm...

After 16 years, Sabine travels back to her home village. The occasion is a class reunion. She wants to return to Vienna that very evening. She has only come anyway because things are still not settled between her and her childhood sweetheart Leonhard...

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Otto is the proud father of his three children, David, Julia, and Pius. This requires considerable logistical skill, as the three mothers must not know anything about each other. The game of hide-and-seek is about to be exposed when the nanny, Maria,...

A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger....