Movies: Rainer Piwek

After the sudden death of his wife, the lives of Markus Färber and his daughter Kim fall into disarray. Markus’ attempt to bring back normality into their everyday lives fails - he can’t let go of the past. 15 year-old Kim feels left alone with her f...

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All is no longer right with the world in East Frisia. The weatherproof crab fishermen who take their boats out into the North Sea every night are fighting for survival. In these times of globalization, the North Sea crabs travel thousands of kilomete...

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Pastor Petersen is threatened with the loss of his parish and thus also his office: The parishes of the villages of Norderup and Toestrup are to merge, but the stuffy neighbors are bothered by the fact that Petersen and his girlfriend are living in a...

Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at the c...

Antonia Wiedemann has built a new life for herself after the painful divorce from her husband Ludwig. In her animal boarding kennel in the countryside, she looks after everything that creeps and flies. Veterinarian Dr. Rafael Hansen even entrusts her...

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Catastrophic power outage in Berlin. Poorly maintained grids, greedy power companies and corrupt politicians are to blame. The result is riots and looting. Can senior engineer Anja Radke save the day? But then she comes under suspicion of being invol...

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and t...

When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of marriage. Although Christmas is just around the corner, she quickly moves into the apartment of the youn...

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Sabine Waldmann is a special person. Her world is different to that of most people because she has Asperger's syndrome. Numbers and fixed structures give her a sense of security and no one can fool her when it comes to memory. Personal interaction wi...

Moritz Kaiser, good-looking single from passion, enjoys the carefree life in the fast lane. The successful chief designer of a furniture company lives in a luxury apartment and drives a thick sports car. The tide turns when he is fired after an affai...

Michael Schröder is the owner of a fitness studio that is not running. His marriage to the aristocratic and wealthy lawyer Elisabeth also only exists on paper. She lives out her love affair with lover Cornelius openly, but a divorce is unthinkable fo...

Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the ...

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Rieke Schmidt is the pastor of the Protestant congregation of Nazareth Church in Munich-Bogenhausen. The unconventional minister is fully absorbed in her job, which is especially hard on her 19-year-old daughter Leonie. She has traveled to Munich fro...

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Robert Dühring is a respected businessman and lives with his fiancée in a small town in Baden. His brother Georg is a convicted sex offender. Robert has been in denial about Georg for years, but now that his prison sentence and preventive detention a...