Thorsten Merten

Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children Gottfried and Elisabeth are ...

Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes ...

Another murder takes place in tranquil Klein-Freudenstadt. And Angela Merkel is in the middle of it again.

After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is retired and lives with her husband and pug in a small town. She is bored with the quiet life. When a ...

In the German comedy Jagdsaison, a wellness weekend for three friends is in danger of derailing: Marlene is in a serious midlife crisis and is ...

On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to ...

For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes ...

Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt ...

After 14 years of prison Nabil is released and thrown back into his life.

Year 2047: “Inifinitalk” is the AI developed by some guys, offering possible eternal life through digitization of peoples mind and ...

Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young ...

West Germany, 1983. Seventeen-year-old Ursula wants it all and is thus too much, although all she’s looking for is love. Enter Siegfried ...

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with ...

The mountain spirit Rübezahl falls in love with the young maid Rosa. Blind with love, he does not notice that the Baroness of Harrant wants to ...

Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support ...

Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah’s family is from Iraq and ...

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East ...

A shocking secret behind a young boy’s death leads to three generations of treachery in the midst of the wealth and decadence of Victorian ...

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming ...

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ...

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged ...

Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly ...

In 2012 German Bundespraesident Christian Wulff declares his resignation in the great hall of Bellevue Palace. At the side of his wife, he had to ...

A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.

Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of shooting a huge epic with impressive ...

A poor peasant woman lives in a cabin in the woods. She grows two rose-trees in front of her house, one with white roses and one with red. When ...

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province ...

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against ...