Movies: Thomas Plenert
- 1990
Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand (1990)
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Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification....
- 2001
Berlin Babylon (2001)
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A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall....
- 2014
Anderson (2014)
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Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson....
- 1989
After Winter Comes Spring (1989)
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A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made...
- 2007
You're Not Alone (2007)
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Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning fo...
- 1987
The Kitchen (1987)
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This documentary follows a group of women on a typical workday as they prepare meals for a dockyard in Rostock. The viewer never learns their names - there are no interviews. The women are presented simply as workers: cooking, cleaning, hauling, and ...
- 2024
Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert (2024)
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The remarkable 83-year-old Helga Schubert lives in the remote landscape between Schwerin and Wismar. Her days are filled with the loving care of her sick 95-year-old husband, Johannes Helm, once a professor of psychology and passionate painter. But a...
- 1991
Jugend ohne Gott (1991)
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A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on....
- 1992
Herzsprung (1992)
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In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and ...
- 1997
Little Angel (1997)
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Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pre...
- 2016
Als wir die Zukunft waren (2016)
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Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be curious, vulnerable children and teenagers who also want to be cool (even though the word doesn't exist for them yet). They live in well-adjusted or ...
- 2018
Sealed Lips (2018)
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A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom....
- 2006
Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter (2006)
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Hilde Reimer is overjoyed when her three grown-up daughters and their partners move into the old family villa. The only thing that really bothers Hilde is that her three girls are still not married, despite having children and being very much in love...
- 1990
The Wall (1990)
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A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and diff...
- 1984
The Arctic Is Calling (1984)
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This children's adventure movie is a charming tale of a group of youngsters in Prague who hear that Soviet sailors abandoned their failing ship in the Arctic Sea before it went down, but no one had been able to find the sailors yet. Inspired by the e...
- 2001
Return to Go (2001)
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After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops...
- 2009
This Night (2009)
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Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup...
- 2018
Ausgerechnet Sylt (2018)
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Project manager Kevin returns to his childhood on the island of Sylt on a vacation with his daughter, motivated by closing a big deal there, since his company plans to build luxury apartments on a piece of land....
- 1989
Märkische Ziegel (1989)
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Documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp visits a brick factory in Zehdenick, East Germany....
- 1995
Nikolaikirche (1995)
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