Hannelore Elsner Movies

An aging actress hires a cameraman on the street and makes a life confession to him. In a 90-minute monologue, she describes the highs and lows of...

"Hape" Wegener is an old hippie and has a lot of debts. At the cemetery he happens to meet the widow Martha Ebinghaus, who clearly comes from wealthy...

The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be...

Mother Irma turns 65 - which puts her children under stress. Businesswoman Kathrin, single mother Nettchen and student Laurenz actually prefer to...

After a nuclear war, what is left of society creates a special police force to ensure that it doesn't happen again. However, things don't go exactly...

A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey...

Dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton have been leading a seemingly intact life, juggling careers and a family with four children. Until one...

The norms of hospital practices are turned upside-down in this complex drama about how many rights are denied patients who do not conform. At the...

A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events...

The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the...

A top-level meeting of the Eastern secret services is taking place in Prague. Martin, an agent who knows all the tricks of the trade, is tasked with...

When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious...

Zoologist Verena is supposed to pick up two small lions from South Africa. The consequences of an accident force her to stay longer at the animal...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events...

The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.

The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out...