Michael Gwisdek Movies

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...

1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a...

Two people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers;...

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because she refused to help cover up the use of a...

The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist...

In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much...

On a forest road in the Brandenburg March, village teacher Potsch accidentally encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in...

A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a...

After 20 years and with their children gone, Georg and Charlotte face unexpected distance. Charlotte, eager to enjoy newfound freedom, clashes with...

Kaiser, an unemployed civil engineer, receives a tempting offer to become managing director of Zielbau GmbH.

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has...

The widowed registrar Robert Zimmermann reconciles divorcing couples and finds happiness in love once again.

Leonard and Judith have little in common. To be more precise: almost nothing. He is a professor of mathematics who loves solitude and avoids other...

This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.

Robert and Michael meet on their return from captivity. They discover that they are both married to the same woman: After Robert was pronounced dead,...

Brothers Friedrich and Richard inherit their father’s seaside hotel after reunification. Ambitious Western businessman Friedrich plots a...

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.