Heike Hanold-Lynch
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Biography: Hanold-Lynch verließ mit 16 Jahren ihr Elternhaus und finanzierte sich selbst das Abitur. Ihr Germanistik- und Psychologiestudium an der Freien Universität Berlinbrach sie bald ab, um nach New York zu gehen. Dort besuchte sie die Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre von Sanford Meisner. Sie studierte gemeinsam mit Philip Seymour Hoffman mehrere Jahre bei dem Method-Lehrer Tony Greco. An der Columbia University, Graduate Film Division arbeitete sie mit Leonore de Koven in Directing Actors in Film, wirkte in Studentenfilmen mit, nahm weiteren Schauspielunterricht und stand als Gründungsmitglied einer Theatergruppe auf der Bühne, unter anderem in John Patrick Shanleys Stücken Danny and the Deep Blue Sea als Roberta und in Savage in Limbo in der Rolle der April White. Hanold-Lynch war verheiratet mit James E. Lynch, dessen Namen sie nach der Trennung behielt. 1994 kehrte sie nach Berlin zurück. Von 1999 bis 2010 arbeitete sie durchgängig als Schauspiel-Coach vorbereitend und am Set für unterschiedlichste Film- und Fernsehproduktionen, beginnend mit der Serie St. Angela. Als Dozentin konzipierte und präsentierte sie 2001 den Live-Workshop „Kamera läuft!“ im Rahmen des SAT.1 Actors’ Day auf dem Filmfest München, bei dem sie junge Leute aus dem Publikum live vor laufender Kamera coachte. 2009 entschied sie sich für einen künstlerischen Neuanfang als Schauspielerin. Parallel dazu systematisierte sie eigene Techniken der Rollenerarbeitung und ist seit 2010 als freier Coach und als Dozentin für Internationale Castings am iSFF (Institut für Schauspiel, Film- und Fernsehberufe Berlin) tätig. Stephen Daldry legte Hanold-Lynch beim Casting für Der Vorleser nahe, ihre eigene Schauspielkarriere voranzutreiben und Drehbuchautor David Hare schrieb ihr eine Rolle ins Drehbuch. Die Begegnung bewirkte, dass sich Hanold-Lynch beruflich neu ausrichtete. Seither hat sie Nebenrollen in weiteren großen internationalen Kinoproduktionen gespielt, u. a. an der Seite von Liam Neeson in Unknown Identity, an der Seite von Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas, zuletzt als Tochter von Tilda Swinton und Schwester von Adrien Brody in Wes Andersons Grand Budapest Hotel. Auch in Deutschland stellt sie seit 2009 in Kino- und Fernsehproduktionen ihre Wandlungsfähigkeit unter Beweis. Franziska Augstein schrieb in der Süddeutschen Zeitung über ihre Figur der Else Weidt in Ein blinder Held – Die Liebe des Otto Weidt: „Dieser Film ist großes Kino (...) Großartig ist Heike Hanold-Lynch, die als Weidts verbittert-verbiesterte, eifersüchtige und nicht besonders attraktive Ehefrau auftritt.“ Neben Edgar Selge in der Titelrolle spielt sie in dem Film, welcher auf Erlebnissen Inge Deutschkrons während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus basiert, eine unpolitische Frau, die die große Liebe ihres Mannes vor den Nazis versteckt. Neben anderen Filmprojekten besetzte Friedemann Fromm sie in der ersten Staffel der mit dem Deutschen Fernsehpreis ausgezeichneten ErfolgsserieWeissensee als Stasi-Mitarbeiterin Erika Bergner. Für Andres Veiel war sie als Mentorin Gudrun Ensslins in Wer wenn nicht wir zu sehen und für Marc-Andreas Bochert in einer Hauptrolle als Richterin an der Seite von Christoph Bach in Dyslexie. 2014 stand sie u. a. für Oskar Roehlers 80er-Jahre-Film Tod den Hippies, es lebe der Punk vor der Kamera. Heike Hanold-Lynch lebt in Berlin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: July 11, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Natasha’s Dance
Overview: When Daantje was a withdrawn child, her mother told him that somewhere there was a girl waiting for him who danced beautifully. As an adult, Daantje is a lonely homeless person who happens to meet the former ballerina, Natasha. At first, the woman does not pay much attention to Daantje – the young man is a bit strange. Besides, Natasha has emotional hardships in her relationships. Then an event occurs that makes her want to return to her homeland immediately. Daantje goes with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-01-11
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I Phone You
Overview: Ling, in his 20s, lives in Chongqing, the largest city in China. There she meets Yu, a Chinese business traveler who lives in Berlin. As a farewell, he has given her an iPhone. They start a tender relationship by phone. When Ling flies to Berlin to see Yu, another man, Marco, is waiting for her. He is Yu's German bodyguard. He should take care that Ling flies back again.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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The Inventive Lady
Overview: After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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Frei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-02-15
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Beat On The Brat
Overview: Helen tries to do everything right, but the customers are not interested in the middle-aged woman in the sausage grill. As the straps cut deeper and deeper, Helen has to break out and from then on she does everything wrong, or right?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-23
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Mocca für den Tiger
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-07-09
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Alles muss raus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-13
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Punk Berlin 1982
Overview: 1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-26
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A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt
Overview: A Blind Hero depicts Otto Weidt's story as told by award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschkron, who tells the incredible tale of Weidt's efforts to save her and the rest of his employees from the Nazis, including Alice Licht, the love of Otto Weidt's life.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-06
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Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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From Hilde with Love
Overview: In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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Homesick
Overview: Ambitious cello student Jessica receives an invitation to an international contest. A great opportunity, but at the same time it means enormous pressure. Stress begins to gnaw on Jessica's everyday life and soon reality and imagination blur.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-09
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Familie Fröhlich – Schlimmer geht immer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-13
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Die Masche mit der Liebe
Overview: Eva, a single mother of two children, like many job seekers before her, falls victim to a fraudster who talks her into buying a knitting machine. What initially looks like a huge flop turns out to be a real gap in the market thanks to Eva's cleverness. Shortly afterwards, she falls in love with her neighbor Jan. But dark clouds soon gather...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-25
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600 PS für zwei
Overview: Five years ago, the highly paid marketing chief Hartmut Sprenger was fired from his job by the new personnel manager Lorenz Hoffmann - without a word of notice, anonymously, without a personal conversation. But today - Hartmut is a casual jobber and embittered, Lorenz in the middle of the mid-life crisis and just before the burnout - fate brings the two men together and sends them on a turbulent ride through Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Overview: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-26
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If Not Us, Who?
Overview: In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-03-10
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Einfach Rosa - Verliebt, verlobt, verboten
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Genres: Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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The Reader
Overview: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Aus lauter Liebe zu Dir
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-15
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Back for Good
Overview: Three women, one family: Monika the mother, Angie the older sister and Kiki the baby of the family. Angie is a reality-TV star who is doggedly clinging onto her fading career. Fresh out of rehab, she suddenly finds herself without any money, friends or a place to live and is condemned to returning to her mother in her hated dump of a hometown. Angie's teenage sister Kiki is also finding life tough-going. Due to her epilepsy, her mother Monika insists that she wears a freaky protective helmet. The consequence: Kiki is ostracised and bullied, her life has long since become the hell from which her mother is trying to protect her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Die vierte Gewalt
Overview: Freelance journalist Jan Schulte hopes for a job at the online portal of Berlin newspaper “Die Republik” when he discovers a potential scandal. Federal minister of health Elisabeth Stade apparently helped her brother’s search for a heart transplant by moving him up the waiting list illegally. But then Schulte’s colleague Britta claims the compromising material is a fake. Editor-in-chief Weishaupt and publisher Winter refuse to run the article. As Jan keeps on digging into the scandal, investigating state secretary Katharina Pflüger and political advisor Frank Gruber, his evidence is suddenly stolen from the newspaper office, and soon a competing tabloid breaks the story...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-27
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Volltreffer
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-04
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From Here to Vanity
Overview: Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin’s most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann’s door. Sylvia has saved up every penny of her reparation money to appear just once in her life on the silver screen like Greta Garbo. It just so happens that the Viennese filmmaker Andersch and Madame Heidemann are staying at the same hotel and it’s not long before the two strike a bargain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Mata Hari – Tanz mit dem Tod
Overview: In 1916, the officer of the German secret service Elsbeth Schragmüller trains the end-of-career exotic dancer Mata Hari as secret agent. Schragmüller has finally an ear directly in the influential circles of Paris, while Mata Hari can uphold her mundane life despite lack of engagements. Both have great hope for this intelligence mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-18
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Bye Bye Germany
Overview: David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Suchkind 312
Overview: For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the up-and-coming engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when she rediscovers her daughter Martina, who she thought was dead, in a wanted ad. Ursula is stunned with joy, but also very scared: the girl is from a man she met during the war, before her time with Richard. Now Richard is about to be promoted to factory manager and does not want to be discredited because of an illegitimate child.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Dyslexie
Overview: Philipp Halbe can not read and write. He avoids life, works in a bar at night and does not engage in serious relationships. One day when his daughter Lily, whose mother died in a car accident, is about to die, he has to face the challenges of life and fight for custody. The aim of the film is to raise awareness of the problem of illiteracy and thus to contribute to the de-tabulation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Promotion
Overview: 'Amok' tells 48 hours of the live of Lorenz Fuchs, a middle aged gray accountant who believes his triste and monotonous life being meaningless and absurd. For him the outside world was always hostile and aggressive. When his Boss not only unexpectedly promotes him but also reveals that he knows about his well covert emotional failings, Fuchs is thrown out of his daily routine - his defense lines are crumbling. Well hidden memories of traumatic experiences bring up a long suppressed rage that results in an outburst of violence and a bloodbath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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Blonde to the Bone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-20
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Tiger Eyes See Better
Overview: Judith leads a busy life with her daughter Lissi and her job as statistician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-09-08
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Unknown
Overview: A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Vom Mörder und seiner Frau
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Alles Chefsache!
Overview: For decades, "Soups Hansen" was on everyone's lips, but now threatens the old-established operation of the end. The reasons for the decline are homemade: in modern times the tastes have changed, the soup of the idiosyncratic manufacturer unfortunately not. The bank wants to save the traditional house, but the new loan is subject to one condition: company boss Theo Hansen must hand over the business to his son, who now cooks his own soup ... Edzard Onneken staged this comedy with Günther Maria Halmer in the role of aging patriarch who can not let go.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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Null Risiko und reich
Overview: A comedy directed by Wolf Vogel.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-21
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Desired Children
Overview: The life of Marie and Peter seems perfect, but their greatest wish remains unfulfilled: a family of their own. After several painfully failed attempts to have a child by natural means, Marie and Peter decide to try adoption in Russia. Carried by their longing and after many months of preparation and waiting, they set off to get to know their future daughter Nina in a children's home thousands of kilometers away from Germany. They still have no idea that they are only at the beginning of a tour de force against the Russian authorities – and they are facing the biggest challenge for their relationship, because while Marie and Peter are fighting for their future child, the question is: are we still pursuing the same goal? Each for himself – and especially as a couple?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Wald
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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Nachbarn süß-sauer
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-05-20
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Cloud Atlas
Overview: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Nachtwächter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Shores of Hope
Overview: In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Residual Risk
Overview: Nuclear security expert Katja Wernecke (Ulrike Folkerts) helps cover up a fire in the German nuclear reactor she works in, before the government takes a decision on extending the usage license for it. But the press uncovers it. PR man Steffen Stratmann (Matthias Koerbelin) is brought in to improve the companies image - but before he can implement his plan a nuclear meltdown occurs. 2m people have to be evacuated. Wernecke re-enters the hot zone to investigate the cause...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-18
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Schüleraustausch
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-02-22
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Weihnachtsfieber
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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Gentleman
Overview: Frank Seltsam goes for fast cars, beautiful women and expensive drugs. As recently things go down the drain, his frustration explodes in an orgy of blood, champagne and heroin.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-06
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Nah am Wasser
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Heikos Welt
Overview: A son tries to save his mother's eyesight by drinking beer and playing darts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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All Russians Love Birch Trees
Overview: After her boyfriend becomes extremely ill, Mascha re-evaluates her path and decides to leave her previous life behind. But it's only by returning home that she can find peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-06-27
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Scham
Overview: Aaron had a traumatic childhood. He was constantly beaten by his mother Susanne, who repeatedly used both physical and psychological violence against him. At the age of seven, he was sexually abused by a stranger. He then began having sex with other children of the same age. Today, as a young adult, he is still traumatized and deeply ashamed. When he visits his mother again after four years of silence, he is ready to break his silence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-01-22
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Maysoon
Overview: Almost 10 years after the Arab spring, the young Egyptian archaeologist Maysoon is living in Berlin with her German boyfriend Tobi and their two children. When she experiences some turbulences in her personal life and an unexpected threat to her political status, Maysoon fears that she may lose everything once again: family, love, and freedom. Maysoon fights for her independence as a woman and as a citizen, fueled by love and idealism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
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Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
Overview: All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
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