Claus-Dieter Reents

Three ordinary, disillusioned citizens decide to rob an armored car.

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the...

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.

A short vacation should let the 17-year-old, deaf-mute Veronika forget the death of her beloved father, so the plan of her mother Christina. The...

Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna,...

Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal...

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

Four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its “performance.” TV recording of the...

A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has...

The 17-year-old, musically gifted Stephan is expelled from school for making statements critical of the regime. With his future as a musician now...

Robert, a masseur who is hard of hearing, is unaware that he has inherited millions. Four people want to take it from him: stockbroker Kuhl, his...

A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their...

In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels....

Shots are suddenly fired at a rally. A young man is arrested from the crowd. During questioning, he claims to have acted alone in order to make a...

The wife of a lawyer becomes the target of a violent sexual assault by two teenagers. Attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable are met with...

The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise,...

We follow 15-year-old Paule‘s hard life on his parents' farm. Under his controlling father – who is fighting to save the homestead – he and his...

David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with...

Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he...

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg neighborhood...

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police....

Bundeswehr Captain Andreas Kreutzer deserts and sets off for Denmark. In Puttgarden, however, he is met by two military police officers who escort...

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are...