Lars Rudolph
Birthday: Born in 1966-08-18 in Wittmund, Germany
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Die Chefin
Character: Uwe Roberts
First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life....
Inas Nacht
Character: Self
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Letzte Spur Berlin
Character: Jens Völkel
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München 7
Character: Hauke Sponbiel
München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich, Germany and features the fictive police station "München 7" or "Munich 7". The main characters are the "Sheriff from Marienplatz" Xaver Bartl and his new colleague Felix Kandler. München 7 is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich"....
Nachtschicht
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8 x 45
Character: Vincent
8 x 45 is an Austrian television series....
Aus dem Tagebuch eines Uber Fahrers
Character: Herbert
Uber driver Ben uses what he learns from his passengers to piece together his place in the world....
Nachtschicht
Character: Danny Osterwald
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Tatort
Character: Rüdiger Wilke
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Tatort
Character: Christian Brenner
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Josephine Klick – Allein unter Cops
Character: Lothar
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SOKO Stuttgart
Character: Prof. Olaf Freising
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Oliver Pfeifer
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Bloch
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Tatort
Character: Matz Roloff
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Rosa Roth
Character: Hansi Wagner
Rosa Roth is a German television series....
Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie
Character: Klaus Bitz
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Tatort
Character: Killer Petteri Salokangas
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Dead End
Character: Polizeikommissar Michael Schubert
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SOKO Stuttgart
Character: Clemens Rottluff
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus....
German Genius
Character: Stavros
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Gerry Star – Der schlechteste beste Produzent aller Zeiten
Character: Micha
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Movie Credits
Run Lola Run
Character: Mr. Kruse
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run....
The Inheritors
Character: Severin
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey....
No Place to Go
Character: Viktor
Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go....
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
Character: Udo
Jan is an absolute heartthrob and a diehard Hertha fan. Katrin is attractive, just as successful and an incorrigible romantic. Chance makes the two the ideal couple. At least almost. Everything would be perfect if the two flagship models of their species did not lapse into primeval behavioral patterns. And so Jan sinks a little too deep in the cleavage of his secretary Melanie, and Katrin can not resist the adventurer Jonathan's lead role....
Luther
Character: Philip Melanchton
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation....
Werckmeister Harmonies
Character: János Valuska
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction....
My Führer
Character: Kammerdiener Heinz Linge
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ......
The Princess and the Warrior
Character: Steini
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future....
The Letter for the King
Character: Slupor
Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty....
The Trixxer
Character: Smeerlap
A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle....
Fette Welt
Character: Edgar
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Baby
Character: Paul
Frank and Paul are best friends forever and raised Frank's daughter Lilli after a tragic car accident. The two men scrape a living by working as barmen and bouncers in a strip club while Lilly has grown into a lively and self-confident teenager. The disaster unfolds when Lilli seduces Paul and gets pregnant....
Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan
Character: Waiter
Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery....
The Clear Eyes
Character: Oskar
Fanny is a schizophrenic woman in her early thirties living under the care of her brother Gabriel, a schoolteacher. Following a violent altercation with his wife, Fanny steals her brother's car and sets off on a road trip to Germany to visit the grave of their father, whose funeral she was not allowed to attend......
The Antman
Character: Loco Satano
“The Antman” is a lovingly-made but sluggish monster-movie parody, done with German-speaking actors on a sparse soundstage standing in for 1950s Mexico. Promising concept is bolstered by colorful performances by Gotz Otto and Lars Rudolph, and the filmmakers have fun with pic’s look, right down to tacky lighting worthy of Roger Corman. But Marc Meyer’s script isn’t fast or funny enough to keep pace with energetic visuals. The first in a projected series of B-movie homages grouped as “Planet B,” ...
Hourglass
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A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life....
Geschlechterkampf – Das Ende des Patriarchats
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An Endless Sunday
Character: Domenico
Three Roman teenagers try to make their mark on the world: Brenda is pregnant; Ale has just turned 19 and is about to become a father; Kevin fills the city with his name. Always connected, they buzz between the coastal countryside and the Eternal City, trying to resist each in his own way the inexorable advance of time and heat....
Gold
Character: Joseph Rossmann
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, flamboyant businessman Wilhelm Laser, they are hoping to find their fortune in the recently discovered goldfields of Dawson, but they have no idea of the stresses and dangers which lie ahead on their 2,500 kilometre journey. Before long uncertainty, co...
Finn und der Weg zum Himmel
Character: Johann Fischbrenner
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Taxi für eine Leiche
Character: Gabriel
A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Murnberger....
Kojotenweg 13
Character:
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The Vexxer
Character: Chucky Norris
Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list....
Trouville Beach
Character: Bill
Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally, he finds her place and stays with friends of hers while she is abroad. Now Lukas falls in love with Alice, but does not want to admit it. And while his relationship with Alice is in doubt, Nathalie comes back home. Trouble had been breeding all along....
Fandango - Members Only
Character: Bruno
Small-time dealers make moves in the German club scene....
Milk Fever
Character: Bauer
Set on the farm in Gribbohm where the artist was born and raised, Meechfieber recounts the grotesque adventures of a farm couple who must come to grips with surreal machines, bric-à-brac spaceships, costumed animals and frenetic dances....
Villa Henriette
Character: Maries Vater
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A Proletarian Winter's Tale
Character: Teltow, der Hausmeister
Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. Downstairs, however, a splendid buffet attracts them - so why not just ignore the unfair prohibition and cross the line of class society? Didn't the French Revolution start over a piece of cake?...
Paperbird
Character: Charly
Nic, a stubborn 25-year-old German, is waiting for his lost luggage in Bangkok. In search of things from everyday life, he is drawn into a world that is initially foreign to him. When Nic meets Coco, a mysterious 22-year-old high-class prostitute, her personality reminds him of someone from his childhood. He begins to remember his almost forgotten past and goes in search of his "House of Wishes". Nic cannot escape Coco and a hopeless love affair begins....
5 Jahre Tolle Sachen Gala
Character: Jean Maria Braque
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Der Mann, der alles kann
Character: Ludger Behnken
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33X Around the Sun
Character: H
33 x Around The Sun is a dreamlike journey into a world where nothing is quite what it seems. It follows the story of a man who wakes up in an apparently abandoned hospital then walks out into the night in search of answers. As our hero wanders the mysteriously empty streets he encounters a series of characters who emerge from the shadows like the lost and the damned. These moonstruck individuals all seem to share a connection - a connection that might lead him to the truth he seeks....
Therapy for a Vampire
Character: Oscar
Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa....
Look Who's Back
Character: Shop Owner
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon....
Flirt
Character: Peter, Laborer #2
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?...
Alone in Berlin
Character: Enno Kluge
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Put...
Not a Love Song
Character: Bruno
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Die Nichte und der Tod
Character: Rudolf Herzog
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Scrappin'
Character: Träumchen
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping things, the family, and every once in a while, a nice fist fight. Mirko left all that behind, but his father messes things up big time when he dies and leaves his son the run down scrapyard - together with his brother Letscho. And Letscho is still ti...
Wolfsfährte
Character: Aki Lührs
A dead girl at the Elbe beach gives riddle to Chief Commissioner Jan Fabel. However, it does not stop at this one murder. Alluding to the literary models of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, a bloody trail soon runs through Hamburg. In his new novel, writer Gerhard Weiss argues that the bloody fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were based on authentic models. Is the Hamburg fairy tale murderer inspired by Weiss's novel?...
2 für alle Fälle - Manche mögen Mord
Character: Freddy Rossmeißel
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Tiger Milk
Character: Herr Wittner
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays....
Nur ein Tag
Character: Fuchs
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Strawberry Bubblegums
Character: Charly
After Lucy (17) finds out that she was conceived during a porn shoot she sets out to find her father and meets Udo, a has-been former porn star. Together this unlikely couple go on a journey during which both find more than they bargained for…...
Faust
Character: Wirt
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul....
Baron Münchhausen
Character: Hermet
In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories....
Heart of Stone
Character: Schui-Franz
Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power....
Die vier Gerechten
Character: Billy Andrews
Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "Die vier Gerechten" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More honorable personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the honorable personalities as heads of the organized trafficking of girls....
Detour
Character: Bruno
Alma and Jan are having an affair and yet Jan does not want to admit it. In order to force him to recognize their relationship, Alma secretly takes Jan's small son, Juri on a trip. Accompanied by the delivery man Bruno, the two drive in the direction of Berlin. At a rest stop, he tries clumsily to get closer to Alma but she rebuffs him. In doing so, Alma unwittingly injures him in such a way that he drops all his inhibitions. Whereas Bruno until now was acting covertly in the hope of establishin...
Rocket Perelman
Character: Herr Grube
In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to live their version of freedom and independence - everybody for themselves and all together. But that's hard work, since the joined theatre production puts the groups' idealism to a hard test....
Heller als der Mond
Character: Knarek
A moonstruck comedy about lovers and robbers....
Draussen in Meinem Kopf
Character: Larry
Christoph begins his year of civil service at a nursing home as the personal caretaker for 28-year-old Sven. The seriously ill young man is suffering from muscular dystrophy and his nursing room has become his own little microcosm which he has been sovereignly controlling for years....
Partisan
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Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working altered the public’s perception of this theater. The chronological history of the Castorf era between 1992 and 2017 is told here in excerpts from the productions and in a series of conversations conducted on the long sofa in the theater's foyer....
Sass
Character: Gamasche
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Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt
Character: Flo
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Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
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A series of poems....
Der süße Brei
Character: Balduin
A great famine threatens the country. Before people die of hunger, they turn into birds - as does little Ida. Therefore, her big sister Jola runs desperately into the deep forest to find some food for the family....
Buffalo Soldiers
Character: Courier
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall....
Checker Tobi und das Geheimnis unseres Planeten
Character: Piraten Käpt'n
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Der Andere - eine Familiengeschichte
Character: Leiter Seniorenheim
Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal....
Hotel Auschwitz
Character: August
The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood......
The Astronauts' Bodies
Character: Michael
When his two mature children Anton and Linda start leaving the house, after graduation, father Michael stops taking care of his body. Anton sacrifices his body for a bed-rest-study to contribute to spacetraveling, while Linda is in search of her first sexual experience....
Vielmachglas
Character: Pontenagel
Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her future and her brother is a high-flyer who has already traveled halfway around the world. When a tragic accident plunges her into sheer endless grief, Marleen just wants to get away. Equipped with the bare essentials, she sets off on a journey into the unknown....
DJ Punk: The Photographer Daniel Josefsohn
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark in advertising with his irreverent aesthetic and punk sensibility. It was his spontaneous, imperfect images shot for an MTV campaign in 1994 that first made him famous....
The Satanic Thicket - Three
Character: Rolle
The first day of the holidays at the campsite. Mimi wants to make friends with the other children, Karl wants to go swimming with the crocodile, Dad’s hungry and Mum left the sandwiches on the kitchen table. All of a sudden, the caretaker’s little rabbit Fernando goes missing. Not until the medieval tourists arrive does a sense of order return. One thing is for sure: the world is in turmoil....
Little Angel
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Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth....
The Edge of Heaven
Character: Mr. Obermüller
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together....
White on White
Character: Landowner
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous....
Soul Kitchen
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In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef....
Götz von Berlichingen
Character: Eugen
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The Kiss of the Honey Badger
Character: Doktor Sprengel
Once upon a time, there's been an epidemic on earth: People float away due to fear and petty criminal brothers Rémi and Widu are fighting the whole time while trying to accomplish their biggest mission yet....
The Policeman's Wife
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The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves....
The Auschwitz Report
Character: Kaduk
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning, they manage to escape. While the inmates they had left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, the two men are driven on by the hope that their evidence could save lives....
Total Therapy
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Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell....
Bruno S. - Die Fremde ist der Tod
Character: Narrator
A portrait of Bruno S., who became famous as an actor in Werner Herzog's films The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek and was forgotten all too quickly....
Potted Palm Trees
Character: Udo
The dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?...
Come Closer
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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 open-hearted game of love, fascinating to look at, and at the same time it's true, it questions everything....
K.aF.ka - Fragment
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An experimental study about the love between Franz Kafka and his adored Felice based on their correspondence....
The Satanic Thicket - Two
Character: Rolle
Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost....