Christoph Engel Movies

The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Naumann

Otto Scheidel (Manfred Krug) has been captain of the Elbe steamer Jenissei for over twenty years, but his ship, the last of its kind, is going to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Manfred Krug

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerhard Bienert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolf Kaiser

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Köfer

In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Böwe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion van de Kamp

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

Genre: Family

Cast: André Kallenbach

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Bartholdt

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Karlík

Although at first Ina barely takes any notice of Matti, the two teenagers gradually fall in love at their dance classes and begin their first real...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

Stasi agent Alexander Berg has to uncover a plot of sabotage.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fred Delmare

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local...

Genre: Music

Cast: Horst Drinda

Genre: Crime

Cast: Horst Drinda

Elias, born at the end of the war, receives an anonymous phone call on his 47th birthday: his parents are dead. He is now a successful politician,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roland Schäfer

Genre: Crime

Cast: Manfred Gorr

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herbert Richter

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hans-Peter Minetti

Film director Andreas Kleinert belongs to the last generation of filmmakers that emerged in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Born in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Prager

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Blume

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. In it, a young student has an affair with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelika Waller

London in 1856. Karl Marx is living in exile in the British capital. One day, "Mohr", as Marx is called by his friends, meets the 13-year old...

Genre: Family

Cast: Alfred Müller

Ede falls in love with Unku, a girl from a travelling circus. Love cannot run smoothly however because Unku is a Gypsy. Various adventures take place...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Ody

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Müller

The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rolf Herricht

Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

Inge Herold is in her mid-thirties. She is divorced and lives with her 15-year-old son. She works as a psychologist and social worker and is involved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christine Schorn

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilmar Thate

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bożena Stryjkówna

For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a theater. Though his colleagues try to make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alejandro Quintana

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together. He is a widower with two sons, with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christine Schorn

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in...

Genre: History

Cast: Hilmar Eichhorn

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because she refused to help cover up the use of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Winter

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone von Zglinicki

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dieter Mann

Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Peter Zimmermann

A funny adventures of a two young boys who are trying to rebuild the ship called "Emma" for their friend - the old captain.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Peter Sodann

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christoph Engel

Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Müller-Fürstenau

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Alfred Müller

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renate Blume

Genre: Drama

Cast: Corinna Harfouch

After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home over night. The next morning, his wife Steffi has...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Winfried Glatzeder

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet that his parents are going to get divorced. They...

Genre: Family

Cast: Etienne Charle

The two-piece black and white movie "Brennende Ruhr" portrays the events during the Kapp-Putsch 1920 in a small german town in the Ruhr district. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Klaus Bamberg

Genre: Crime

Cast: Horst Schulze

Genre: Crime

Cast: Werner Toelcke

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reimar Johannes Baur