Movies: Andreas Dresen

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany....

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity f...

A new dramedic documentary about what politics and democracy mean when your working in the rough business of parlamentarian tasks, assemblies and your every day live in your constituency. Are there things that need to be changed?...

A desolate provincial railway station and six People waiting for the late connecting train to the main station. About itchy feet and the longing of the locked in in October 1989, when the big turn of November was not in sight yet....

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

The actor and musician turns 65 on March 26, 2025. Time for a portrait. Axel Prahl is known to a wide audience for his role as Chief Inspector Frank Thiel in the popular “Tatort” series from Münster, a character he has embodied with gruff charm since...

Under the artistic direction of director Andreas Dresen, 20 renowned documentary filmmakers, experienced television writers, and teams tell stories about the country and its people. The teams filmed at 20 different locations between June and August 2...

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

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A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert....

To save her married friend's African lover from deportation, Britta enters into a marriage of convenience with Farouk. With the handsome stranger, chaos enters her well-ordered single world. Things get really complicated when Britta also falls in lov...

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....

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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 vi...

Student film depicting recess at a grade school....

Two couples meet on a deserted beach. Politeness soon turns into an emotional and physical striptease....

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....