Maria Schrader Movies

A filmed stage play of The Nibelungs.

When the two children of the Menzel family are found murdered, the parents come under suspicion of having killed their own children. The fact that...

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening...

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and...

The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.

After plotting a way to get kicked out of boarding school, the twins diverge for the first time in their lives when Nanni starts enjoying her stay.

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and...

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos...

Mueller is a young and unsuccessful actor who has one big problem. He does not have time. He does not have time for his little daughter Elina and he...

“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child...

No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements...

When Holly and old flame Freddi meet Alemnesch, a young asylum seeker from Rwanda who is heavily pregnant and on the run from authorities, their...

When writer Wolfgang Herrndorf learns that he is terminally ill, he throws himself into his work with feverish discipline and, between surgeries,...

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable to talk about it with Eva, who keeps urging him...