Movies: Stephan Szasz

Comedy about a wedding that doesn't take place. Which leads to insights nobody expected. Irene and Lutz Steimle as well as Margret and Robert Heller meet for the first time in an idyllic castle hotel in Mecklenburg to celebrate the wedding of their c...

It was a devastating day for Arnold and his wife, Karen when their son, Christian, a soldier in the German armed forces, told them he was going to be deployed abroad. Everything is different now. Arnold has decided to retreat to a secluded mountain h...

On a class trip to the GDR in 1986, Annette flirted with the East German Michael. Today she is working on reconstructing shredded Stasi files and comes across a photo of him. Annette finds Michael and their love flares up again. Not just out of jealo...

On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll...

A notorious criminal is committed to a psychiatric ward pending a determination of his sanity. With the help of a young woman, one of his theft victims who has fallen in love with him, he manages to escape. He wants to build a middle-class future wit...

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from....

Johanna believes to find happiness and security in her family live with husband and daughter. But facing her unfulfilled desire disturbs Johanna's serenity....

17-year-old Rebekka is feeling hollow and empty after her brother Dennis died by suicide two years ago. Dennis' friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time. But Vincent is an outsider, accepted by nobody, especially si...

Sorted out - and at almost 50! Both professionally and privately, window dresser Tanja feels like she's been left behind. But she bravely sticks her chin out. Of course she can still keep up, and after one order after another falls through, Tanja is ...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in amo...

Aurélie, a young restaurant owner, is unhappy because her boyfriend has left her overnight. Desperate with lovesickness, she wanders the streets of Paris trying to forget her pain, but by chance she comes across the novel "The Smile of Women" in a sm...

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The Boston lawyer Anne Clark has never realized her age: her law firm gives her age restrictions, and when she moves into her childhood sweetheart Joe, he no longer recognizes her....

Wolfgang Stein spends years in Bautzen prison for attempting to flee the republic. He was ransomed by the West German government in 1971 and ended up in a reception camp in Unna. There he falls in love with a nurse, Anne, with whom he soon moves in t...

A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany...

When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of the crisis team, but has to recognize that her colleagues see the crisis as an opportunity for their...

After police officer Jan Wiegand is critically injured in action, public prosecutor Judith Schrader throws herself into the fight against organized crime in Berlin. But she would actually have to give up the case, as she has a secret relationship wit...

Katharina Tempel, a Hamburg detective superintendent, is investigating the death of a young woman. She discovers that the case has links with her private life: Lena, the victim, turns out to be the sister of Marita Rubesch, the psychologist with whom...

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Three men and a houseboat: Three crisis-plagued Stuttgarters sailed for a week on the Havel in the direction of Müritz. The unfamiliar and not so tranquil Dreisamkeit brings so many things to light, which has hitherto been successfully concealed and ...