Zdf Movies

A tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

While everything is in ruins in Berlin in the spring of 1945, the British bombers are flying overhead and the Red Army is not far away, 15-year-old Ka...

Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film...

This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wh...

An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva...

“Grotesque dancer” Valeska Gert speaks with inimitable repartee and typical Berlin brashness about her scandals and the people she met. She recreates...

All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated...

How can we live in a world that is heading for disaster—or, better yet, escape it? Between existential questions and formal research, this autofiction...

In the early 80's die sozialistische kleiderordnung ( The Socialist Dress Code) in East Berlin is attacked. By black and colourful punks. Youth clubs,...

KÀ tells the epic tale of twins on a perilous journey to fulfill their shared destiny. The coming of age of a young man and a young woman through thei...

As a Bauhaus photographer, Lucia Moholy (1894-1989) was a pioneer of New Objectivity. Her husband László Moholy-Nagy was appointed to the Bauhaus in 1...

The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good....

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a...

Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old Klipperbus...

The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.

Golden Years begins with a farewell that is not a farewell. No goodbye is forever, is it? Tocotronic are concerned with the self-contradictions of our...