Movies: Thomas Plenert

  • 1990
    Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

    Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand (1990)

    Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand

    01990HD

    Volker Koepp revisits Zehdenick and Grüneberg, East Germany. People are struggling with the new political and economical conditions shortly before the German Reunification....

    Märkische Heide, Märkischer Sand
  • 2001
    Berlin Babylon

    Berlin Babylon (2001)

    Berlin Babylon

    7.62001HD

    A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

    Berlin Babylon
  • 2014
    Anderson

    Anderson (2014)

    Anderson

    62014HD

    Documentary about poet Sascha Anderson....

    Anderson
  • 1989
    After Winter Comes Spring

    After Winter Comes Spring (1989)

    After Winter Comes Spring

    7.61989HD

    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...

    After Winter Comes Spring
  • 2007
    You're Not Alone

    You're Not Alone (2007)

    You're Not Alone

    5.32007HD

    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...

    You're Not Alone
  • 1987
    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen (1987)

    The Kitchen

    01987HD

    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 ...

    The Kitchen
  • 2024
    Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert

    Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert (2024)

    Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert

    9.52024HD

    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...

    Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert
  • 1991
    Jugend ohne Gott

    Jugend ohne Gott (1991)

    Jugend ohne Gott

    61991HD

    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....

    Jugend ohne Gott
  • 1992
    Herzsprung

    Herzsprung (1992)

    Herzsprung

    6.81992HD

    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 ...

    Herzsprung
  • 1997
    Little Angel

    Little Angel (1997)

    Little Angel

    11997HD

    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...

    Little Angel
  • 2016
    Als wir die Zukunft waren

    Als wir die Zukunft waren (2016)

    Als wir die Zukunft waren

    62016HD

    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 ...

    Als wir die Zukunft waren
  • 2018
    Sealed Lips

    Sealed Lips (2018)

    Sealed Lips

    6.12018HD

    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....

    Sealed Lips
  • 2006
    Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter

    Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter (2006)

    Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter

    5.52006HD

    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...

    Die Hochzeit meiner Töchter
  • 1990
    The Wall

    The Wall (1990)

    The Wall

    5.21990HD

    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...

    The Wall
  • 1984
    The Arctic Is Calling

    The Arctic Is Calling (1984)

    The Arctic Is Calling

    81984HD

    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...

    The Arctic Is Calling
  • 2001
    Return to Go

    Return to Go (2001)

    Return to Go

    32001HD

    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...

    Return to Go
  • 2009
    This Night

    This Night (2009)

    This Night

    6.22009HD

    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...

    This Night
  • 2018
    Ausgerechnet Sylt

    Ausgerechnet Sylt (2018)

    Ausgerechnet Sylt

    5.32018HD

    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....

    Ausgerechnet Sylt
  • 1989
    Märkische Ziegel

    Märkische Ziegel (1989)

    Märkische Ziegel

    01989HD

    Documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp visits a brick factory in Zehdenick, East Germany....

    Märkische Ziegel
  • 1995
    Nikolaikirche

    Nikolaikirche (1995)

    Nikolaikirche

    4.51995HD

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    Nikolaikirche