Katrin Sass Movies

No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in...

A drama directed by Claudia Prietzel

They used to spend every summer here, but now the daughters have grown up, the parents are divorced and the wooden cabin at the lake has to be...

In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film history of the GDR. In a comprehensive...

It's an affair that the married business woman Thea bitterly regrets: Since she got involved in a vacation with Benedict, she is not only plaguing...

Ulf, Eva and Renate, all in their seventies, are partying hard during a camping trip in Poland. The next day, Ulf, confused and distraught, is found...

School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. She discovers a dead teenager under a steep cliff: Theo Jacobsen, a pupil at her school. The...

Even the military academy can't stop kind-hearted officer Gottfried Engelhardt from seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. Everything in the...

Autumn 1941. The Soviet army flees Kyiv, chaos reigns, soldiers attempt to trade their uniforms for civilian clothes in order to escape unnoticed....

Andrea is a teacher at a gymnasium in Lübeck. She prefers to convince her students with arguments rather than punishments. But it can also be...

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but...

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

GOOD MORNING, MY BEAUTIES! The film is a vibrant group portrait of East German women from a wide variety of walks of life in the GDR. What they all...

A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi...

This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is...

The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation...

It is supposed to be the happiest day of Franka's life, the day she marries the wealthy Alexander. But just then she discovers that she is...