Devid Striesow
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1973-10-01
Locus Natus: Bergen auf Rügen, Germany
Et ut:
Distant Lights
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday...
release : 2003.02.11popularis : 4.581
Yella
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon...
release : 2007.09.13popularis : 9.081
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
release : 2007.12.27popularis : 2.056
What to Do in Case of Fire?
What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its...
release : 2001.11.01popularis : 9.79
Windows on Monday
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her...
release : 2006.02.10popularis : 2.107
The Red Cockatoo
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political...
release : 2006.02.16popularis : 6.643
The Counterfeiters
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
release : 2007.03.22popularis : 7.862
Head Under Water
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old...
release : 2007.09.05popularis : 5.668
Bungalow
A major work of the celebrated Berlin School, the debut of Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) is a mesmerizing portrait of a young German soldier named...
release : 2002.05.24popularis : 5.921
When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the...
release : 2023.02.23popularis : 7.727
This Is Love
Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger,...
release : 2009.09.20popularis : 2.031
I Am Guilty
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl,...
release : 2005.07.23popularis : 1.715
12 Paces without a Head
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a...
release : 2009.12.10popularis : 8.66
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
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...
release : 2009.09.24popularis : 3.866
Passing Summer
A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.
release : 2001.09.20popularis : 4.22
I've Never Been Happier
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it...
release : 2009.01.29popularis : 1.776
Three
Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has...
release : 2010.12.23popularis : 6.411
Valerie
When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live...
release : 2007.04.26popularis : 1.645
12 heißt: Ich liebe Dich
Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and the...
release : 2008.04.16popularis : 1.599
Honecker und der Pastor
January 1990: After they got deposed and the fall of the wall, Erich and Margot Honecker are virtually homeless. Because the government housing...
release : 2022.03.11popularis : 1.49
Auslandseinsatz
Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant...
release : 2012.10.18popularis : 1.769
Tod einer Freundin
When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third victim of a serial killer
release : 2006.11.27popularis : 1.387
My First Miracle
When the strong friendship between a precocious eleven year old girl and a middle-aged family man is attacked for being unhealthy and immoral, the...
release : 2003.05.08popularis : 3.724
Radical Evil
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal...
release : 2014.01.17popularis : 3.684
Age of Cannibals
Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling...
release : 2014.05.22popularis : 3.843
Crash Point: Berlin
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the...
release : 2009.08.17popularis : 3.52
Der Job seines Lebens
Externally, they could be twins. But really only outwardly: the unemployed, disillusioned toolmaker Erwin Strunz and the dynamic, power-infested...
release : 2003.04.01popularis : 0.937
Henri 4
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved...
release : 2010.03.04popularis : 10.181
Before the Fall
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi...
release : 2004.07.04popularis : 17.441
Transpapa
Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is...
release : 2012.11.22popularis : 1.812
About a Girl
Eberswalde, dying industrial city of forty thousand souls just 50 miles East Berlin. Johanna lives in that hopeless place. She lives refusing herself...
release : 2006.02.06popularis : 6.951
Ende der Saison
Klarissa, 26 years old, takes intensively care of her mother Waltraud who has a terminal illness. However, Waltraud isn't grateful, but amused...
release : 2001.11.21popularis : 1.275
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and...
release : 2014.10.21popularis : 4.874
Sputnik
November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. A 10-year-old girl and her friends attempt to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle...
release : 2013.10.24popularis : 2.675
Hannas Baby
The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that...
release : 2002.01.01popularis : 1.124
Downfall
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...
release : 2004.09.16popularis : 16.353
Göttliche Funken
Matthias, who is about to lead his beloved Diana in front of the altar, cannot believe his eyes: Lily, the former love of his life, appears as the...
release : 2014.05.10popularis : 1.936
Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister....
release : 2000.08.28popularis : 2.05
A Good Summer
A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment...
release : 2011.06.25popularis : 0.741
Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten
After a few years working like intern, Till, eventually becomes head of his own company, job counseling for young trainees. In turn, comes Sydelia,...
release : 2009.11.12popularis : 2.776
The Burrow
KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man...
release : 2014.10.04popularis : 1.503
Roxy
The life of a taxi driver is to not judge or get involved. It's to go where he's told to go, for a price. One day, Thomas gets a group of odd...
release : 2024.01.25popularis : 1.999
Eden
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels...
release : 2006.11.02popularis : 3.441
I'm Off Then
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and...
release : 2015.12.24popularis : 6.847
Hänsel und Gretel
Once upon a time, there was a brother and sister named Hansel and Gretel who get lost in the forest. The father searches actively his children with...
release : 2012.12.26popularis : 1.597
A Decent Man
Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his...
release : 2016.02.11popularis : 2.418
Ein verlockendes Angebot
Tim Trageser's TV drama focuses on a couple whose love passes through a crisis when they start a weekend relationship. Jan and Maria are a young and...
release : 2007.08.02popularis : 1.73
Marseille
Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go...
release : 2004.09.23popularis : 3.892
Forwards Ever!
A stage actor's turn as GDR leader Erich Honecker inspires an outlandish scheme to keep his daughter safe during the Leipzig protests of 1989.
release : 2017.10.12popularis : 4.999
The White Rabbit
A young 13-years-old girl searches for love in the internet. But the truth about the persons behind the computers can be terrible.
release : 2016.06.03popularis : 3.998
Die vierte Gewalt
Freelance journalist Jan Schulte hopes for a job at the online portal of Berlin newspaper “Die Republik” when he discovers a potential...
release : 2016.06.27popularis : 2.174
Mademoiselle Paradis
18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart's, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure...
release : 2017.11.10popularis : 3.748
My Brother Simple
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his...
release : 2017.11.09popularis : 2.499
Wellness für Paare
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel...
release : 2016.11.23popularis : 2.237
Luther and I
As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s...
release : 2017.02.22popularis : 2.96
The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King
Mia and her partner Benny, along with Mia's sister, Alicia, will be in charge of solving some puzzling cases that are happening in their city...
release : 2017.09.07popularis : 2.435
Zorn - Kalter Rauch
In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was...
release : 2017.06.01popularis : 3.16
Liebe möglicherweise
Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other.
release : 2016.12.02popularis : 0.661
The Nameless Day
The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.
release : 2017.10.09popularis : 1.564
Die Wunderübung
Joana and Valentin Dorek are a married couple going through a crisis. This prompts them to take a trial session with a couple’s therapist. In...
release : 2018.06.28popularis : 1.093
Oshima
A Japanese business traveler is completely exhausted at a German airport. There, Mr. Oshima seems already to be expected by a businessman and his...
release : 2010.10.28popularis : 1.768
Dreamland
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with...
release : 2013.09.28popularis : 4.343
Seitenwechsel
The relationship of Alex and Teresa has hit hard times. After 15 years of marriage, the passionate football coach and the sensitive psychoanalyst do...
release : 2016.06.02popularis : 2.952
I Was at Home, But...
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential...
release : 2019.03.28popularis : 3.982
Alfons Zitterbacke
Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone...
release : 2019.04.11popularis : 1.957
Unterm Birnbaum
After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the pressure...
release : 2019.09.30popularis : 1.362
Oskarreif
Viewers of the short film as a real film always in new excerpts. Oskar just doesn't understand why nobody wants to film it. For his friend Benny,...
release : 2015.12.31popularis : 1.268
Come Closer
The focus is on a relationship between a couple, played by the directing duo, and Daniel, with whom they end up in bed one after the other. It's an...
release : 2021.10.07popularis : 1.364
Das Unwort
After a Jewish boy was harassed by his classmates for months, an argument breaks out between the overwhelmed parents, the class teacher and the...
release : 2020.11.02popularis : 1.576
Cloudy Clouds
17-year-old Paul likes strange things: stealth trails and abandoned buildings, whispered conversations and left-behind bags. Besides that, he seems...
release : 2021.01.17popularis : 1.737
No Room for Gerold
Three roomates, a rhinoceros, hippo and a wildebeest, must confront their crocodile roomate Gerold about his poor habits.
release : 2006.06.08popularis : 2.432
The Last Execution
The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute...
release : 2021.08.12popularis : 6.913
Für immer Eltern
With their two grown children gone, Anja and Michael Wagner move into their own apartment in the city center. Both are looking forward to their...
release : 2021.03.19popularis : 2.374
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and...
release : 2022.10.07popularis : 51.701
Bach - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Leipzig, in December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children are happy about the arrival of their...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.764