Movies: Michael Wittenborn

Maja Witt and Klaus Burck have been a well-rehearsed team for years, ensuring law and order as police officers in Bremen. At least that's what they try to do. Time and again, however, they are shown their limits. Criminals are set free again, and the...

Carlos Benede is in his thirties, single and helps minors cope with the after-effects of crime. Alexander is a strong-willed and precocious eleven-year-old, who witnesses the horrific death of his mother by his own father. Benede mentors Alexander an...

Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared....

At the latest when Helga crashes through the floor of her living room, she realizes that she is stuck. It's been two years since her husband left her for another woman, but she's still angry and hurt. Everything changes when her cleaning lady goes on...

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical co...

Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccent...

A young autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interest in space missions, he considers his grandparents land an isolated planet....

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses t...

Couples and families in the days after September 11, 2001. All relationships become complictaed, but only one of the four nested stories surrounding a German who condemns the attack, and her husband, a Muslim who advocates it, offers approximate a di...

On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence’s lavender fields, but her husband won’t budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spirited teacher Alexander and classmates Mehmet, Richard, Simon, and Miriam, learning life as much as ...

Born in the wrong body? A child rebels. 8-year old Nina is confident and fun-loving. She’s convinced that a mistake was made at her birth: she was born a Niklas. Nina plucks up her courage and informs her family that she has always felt like a girl a...

Anne Merz wants to start an event agency with Jonas, the new man at her side. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the money, so her premature inheritance is to be decided at a notary appointment with her father Ludwig, who suffers from dementia. To the h...

Franziska Dreyer and Sebastian Pauli are a happy couple. When one day the police arrest her boyfriend on suspicion of murder, Franziska assumes it's a mistake. But in a trial marked by circumstantial evidence, Sebastian is tried, convicted and senten...

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The missing person case of a young woman leads Seeler to a Croatian island to a mysterious connection that uses hypnosis to treat people with mental trauma. The investigator experiences for himself how dangerous "false" memories that feel "real" can ...

The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to ...

For a long time, wealth adviser Elke and car mechanic Wastl were happy together. Until Elke gets involved more and more in dubious financial transactions that bring her success down the line. When her husband wants to stop these windy business, she s...

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli’s mother, Anne’s sister Miriam, who fears Anne’s strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother’s 65th birthday, ol...

Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her professional goals. When Miriam gets pregnant, everyone is shocked. When her lungs malfunction, it is a...