Johanna Gastdorf Movies

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe...

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated...

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due...

In a criminal trial at the Berlin district court, in which the accusation of rape is being heard, it is one statement against the other - a seemingly...

Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted...

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of...

Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a...

Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town...

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her...

Three friends from school, Thomas, Nils and Andreas, are still searching for love in their adult lives.

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.

Luisa loves her teaching profession and is popular with her students because of her fresh teaching methods. But shortly after she refused to give a...

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they would not be deterred. For decades ten thousands...

A widow has two daughters. Louise, lazy she spoils and Marie who dutifully and eagerly helps her mother around the house. One day Marie falls into...

At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of...

Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's...