Rolf Hoppe

Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him. (Warner Home Video)

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance... (imdb)

Fritz is a falsifier drawing a picture of Eva Braun, the girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. He meets Hermann and tells him about some Nazi- material he knows about. Herrmann, working for a great German magazine, pays for everything he can get, and so Fritz starts to write "Hitlers private daybook". The story covers a real event that happend in Germany in the middle of the eighties. (imdb)

The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts. (imdb)

A semi-autobiographical film dealing with the hardships of a young German emigre as he returns home to Germany at the end of World War II. As a member of the Red Army's scouting division, he must come to grips with fighting against men from his homeland, as he attempts to bring the war to a peaceful end so that he may return home.

Tomek, a 14 year old good student from a very poor polish town bordering Germany is approached by a pimp seeking out local boys for German clients. (me)

The year is 1822, and the Mimbreno Apache Indians enter into an agreement with a Mexican mining company, relinquishing all mining rights and pledging the safety of the copper town of Santa Rita del Cobre. Unfortunately, American companies are also interested in the precious metal deposits, and the Apaches are ultimately massacred under their orders. On the eve of the Mexican-American war, Ulzana, a young Apache warrior, sets out to avenge the extermination of his tribe. (firstrunfeatures.com)

Film about the live of Clara and Robert Schumann and their relationship.

It's 1973. The family Bronstein is a german jewish family who lives in East Berlin. Hans, the 18-year old son of Arno Bronstein, travels to the summer house of his parents with his girlfriend Martha. In the house they discover a prisoner, a man in chains. This man was a kapo at the same Nazi concentration camp where Arno and his friends were prisoned. Hans starts an argument with his father, because he's against this vigilantism.

Made for German TV, this adaptation of Rosei's post-modern thriller views the generational conflict between father and son through the lens of the mystery genre. Despite the aesthetic limitations of the small-screen, Haneke's sophisticated mise-en-scène fully exploits the film's stylish Venice locale. (arananfms.blogspot.com)

An old and rich lady returns to her home town and wants "justice". She offers a lot of money if her former lover is killed.

It's Berlin, 1946, and we are in the Russian sector. The war has been lost, and work, and food, are hard to come by. Three very different men have different ways of trying to survive, but they come together to plan a daring raid on the safe of the headquarters of German Railways. They pull the job off successfully, but then a jealous woman finds part of the money and betrays them. (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)

Sequel to Apachen (1973)

East German romance about a nonconformist young school teacher and a disenchanted journalist turned fisherman. (imdb)

This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.