Movies: Christoph Maria Herbst

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the po...

A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which...

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The unsuccessful actor and vagabond Johnny Mauser needs a change from all the trouble that he has experienced while living in the city. The perfect place to take a little break seems to be in Mullewapp, a little village with a cosy little farm. Soon ...

At a tennis club in rural Germany, preparations for the summer party are led by Heribert. When a separate grill is suggested for Erol, the club's only Muslim member, tensions flare. What begins as a simple discussion quickly turns into a debate about...

Anne Merz wants to start an event agency with Jonas, the new man at her side. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the money, so her premature inheritance is to be decided at a notary appointment with her father Ludwig, who suffers from dementia. To the h...

Too bad: Knight Rusty's big show fight in honor of the Knights of Scrapland completely backfires and plunges the kingdom into total chaos. The king rages and sends the knights all to the devil. While Miss Bö goes to work and the dragon Koks takes car...

By-the-book logopaedist Matthias Pretschke, failed husband and father, is the very embodiment of order, who doesn't know what hit him when his wife Petra demands a divorce. Admittedly, he hasn't paid much attention to Petra, nor to their daughter, wh...

Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old Klipperbusch has died - and his money-hungry nephew Albert is already in the process of converting the inherit...

Once again Bernd Stromberg is terrorizing his staff as an obnoxious boss....

"Die Mamba" is a top international terrorist. A deadly hand-to-hand fighter, sniper, explosives expert and master of masks and deception. Hossein Sarivi is a good husband and sound designer in a cookie factory. The two look very much alike, but their...

After the death of his mother, 12-year-old Moritz begins to act in ways that distress the aunt he is living with, so she packs him off to Spain to be with his father. At the airport he meets "Don Quichote" - or is it? The lost boy and the deluded man...

Til, Sinan and Bramstedt rave about a music career and their dream woman, the pretty Lisa from school. But it's hard to get to, because she's preparing with her friends from the DLRG group for a lifeguard mission on Sylt. But when Bramstedt knocked o...

The comedy theater “Cabaret Toujour” by Maulwurf, Falkenhorst and Kalle couldn't be better. When Kalle, the star of the theater, begins his stage program, the audience knows no bounds. The polar bear also loves to celebrate himself backstage. Richy c...

In his own Hotel Ritz, Sophie mistakes Johannes for the expected temporary waiter and is quickly trained in the supposed task. Johannes gets involved and gets to know the hotel business and the employees from a new perspective....

What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our body? Is it waste that is thrown away or a resource that can be reused? In search of answers, director Rubén Abruña embarks on an investigative and entertaining search through 16 cities on four c...

Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in his job or financial matters, but clearly has more fun in life. One day, when he persuades his broth...

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