Udo Samel

The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his ...

In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts ...

Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she ...

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

Leo Strobl, called “Turbo-Leo”, is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to ...

Second part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel and Otto Sander in cast.

Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ...

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling ...

In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows ...

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news ...

The stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” marked Polish film director Andrzej Wajda’s return to ...

Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist’s shops, he rehearses what he ...

Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their ...

17-year-old Paul kills someone. His father decides to flee with him to the south of France. Their relationship is put to the test there. While ...

The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.

Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.

This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants’ War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive ...

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.

Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six ...

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked ...