Dagmar Manzel Movies

Erik, recently retired, is looking forward to some post-work adventure and to enjoy his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

When her ex-husband reappears, now suffering from dementia and having forgotten their divorce, Hanne’s orderly life with partner Bernd is...

An insecure drama student is given the lead role in a play by her director, but the role she is supposed to play is at odds with her real...

Karin, a well-known and loved midwife in her early forties, receives a high-order decoration from the state. While still overwhelmed with happiness...

Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More...

When Fritjof Huber, who works in an architectural office in Munich, is sent to a hospice for the dying to take measurements, his knees shake. He is...

A little boy tries to keep a huge Newfoundland dog in his family's apartment.

The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of...

Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like...

It is 1988. Jacob, from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the...

The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of...

Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new...

Four years after the end of the German Democratic Republic, Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic champion, is planning her comeback to prove to herself...