Michael Gwisdek

A human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer. (imdb)

Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly falls in love with a young man. Transformed by this love he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is. (imdb)

A German Boarder Patrol Woman gets in trouble with her sister, who sinks deeper into the neo nazi scene.

The year is 1975. Tim is a rich, spilt kid from West Germany who makes a field trip with his scholl class to Kleinruppin in East Germany. There he meets Ronny who looks exactly like him. Ronny doesn't hesitate, knocks out Tim and leaves for West Germany in his place.

A TV movie that follows an East Berlin family torn by political strife and the fast-changing events that led to the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989. (imdb)

Flanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capitol. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no person 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. (imdb)

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s. (imdb)

Paul works in a pet shop and at at night he tries to make people laugh. However, he has only little success at first. Then he begins telling jokes about his best friend Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. The audience goes wild but Hotte and Susi are filled with rage. Soon, Paul has to make a decision: friendship or career?

Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968. (imdb)

Maria hear a song during a stopover in Buenos Aires. Now she is on the search, wherefrom she knows this song. She discovered, that she lives her first years in Buenos Aires and she is adopted. Then she try to find her biological parents. On that journey she brings a lot on the light about her childhood.

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. (imdb)

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), swiss experimental educator, laid the groundwork for universal elementary school education and developed many of the educational theories and techniques in use even in the present day. This film focuses on a critical period in Pestalozzi's development of his educational theories, when he was running a boarding school in a disused convent for impoverished village children in the French part of Switzerland. (AllMovie)

To bring peace to an ex-soviet country, the German secret services has to reactivate former East-German spies. Unfortunately times have changed...

The Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin's inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor, the Polizei, the street kids, and taxi drivers, in search of a little bit of happiness, all end up going for a harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city. (imdb)

The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter’s murderer in the courtroom in 1981.

An examination of the architect Albert Speer's role in Nazi Germany, his trial at Nuremberg and conviction for war crimes, despite his claims of ignorance of the Holocaust. (imdb)