Ernst Stötzner
Birthday: 1952-01-01 Place of Birth: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, West Germany
Synopsis
Acting
Nächste Ausfahrt Glück – Song für die Freiheit
Juri suspects that his current girlfriend Sybille may have once betrayed him and his former girlfriend Katharina to the Ministry for State Security. Katharina is given an old Stasi file in which an IM "Gänseblümchen" is mentioned - Gänseblümchen is also Sybille's nickname and Katharina and Juri were once betrayed to the State Security before Juri's escape from the GDR because of a song critical of the system. Juri continues to have problems with his dementia-stricken father, who this time runs away from home and gets lost in the Thuringian Forest, where Juri and Katharina search for him and become closer.
Nächste Ausfahrt Glück - Der richtige Vater
Driven by the thought of being the father of Paul, the eldest son of his childhood friend Katharina, Juri Hoffmann stays in his hometown Eisenach instead of returning to his adopted country Canada. In fact, it turns out that Juri is Paul's father and Paul, who has just opened his own medical practice in Eisenach, reacts very disturbed to this information. Juri continues to have problems with his dementia-stricken father, who barricades himself in his house because he imagines the danger of an "imperialist invasion".
Ostfriesenangst
A school class follows their teacher into the mudflats and comes back without him. Was he an irresponsible person who put his class in great danger and was killed in the process? Or did some devilish students take advantage of the situation to get rid of a hated teacher?
Isi & Ossi
Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.
Contra
With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.
Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in the Munich and Berlin of the 1920s, his escape from Hitler, returning from the US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit and compromised artist.
My Mother's Girlfriend
Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria asks him to become a sperm donor for the common desire child with partner Rosalie. Jan would be father and stepbrother in one. An absurd idea? Not if Jan is shot in that same Rosalie ...
Frantz
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Helen Dorn
Helen Dorn is an expert Police Commissioner, who’s years of experience have given her killer instinct when it comes to crime. On the department head’s orders, Helen Dorn become involuntary partners with Detective Chief Superintendent Gregor Georgi, with Helen in the role of Georgi’s superior. After initially ruffling some feathers, as Gregor thought he was about to take over a case as head investigator and not confronted with a new superior, the two prove to be a solid pairing: Helen’s famed intuition is matched by Gregor’s rational analysis and precision. But will he be able to unearth her mysterious past?
Klimt
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Underground
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
