Hanns Zischler Movies

The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relatives, but also by a frozen pilot from World War I...

The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of...

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

Two woman live together in an appartment and talk about fashion. Then they meet men.

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

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a...

Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim...

With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot,...

The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills...

Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a...

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his...

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with...

A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier.

It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and...

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves...

Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking down Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Latin America...

A man gets on a train to Cologne. Inspired by a poem by Rolf Dieter Brinkman.

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life.

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues...