Michael Gwisdek

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.

Barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.

A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging a moment of silence during lessons.

A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.

A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.

Two couples visit a home from their past, and sexual tension brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface.

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

The good news is that you can live until you're 100 The bad news is that society doesn't need you after 60. So what to do with the last third of your life? Louise and Frans both have a plan. Louise (60), a strong, independent mole...