Winnie Böwe
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Halle (Saale)
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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Overview: Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Combat Girls
Overview: Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-28
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Three
Overview: Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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12 heißt: Ich liebe Dich
Overview: Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and the dissident sit face to face almost daily, and the unbelievable happens: they fall in love with each other. In a few words and gestures and by means of a numerical code, they communicate. '11 means 'you are beautiful', '12 means 'I love you'. Jan and Bettina are always at risk of their love being discovered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Beyond the Blue Border
Overview: GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Der Tropfen - Ein Roadmovie
Overview: Rainer has a miserable life. He works as a pizza delivery guy in a small eastern german town. Unhappy with his situation and apparently short on money he's also struggeling with the dementia of his mother, who he cares for. Soon he can't take it anymore having anything accomplished in his life. With his mother in a home and a self-made bomb in the back of his delivery scooter he's heading north to Berlin. The road trip begins.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-06
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Bibi & Tina
Overview: Bibi Blocksberg visits her friend Tina Martin at the riding stables during the summer vacation. This year there is to be a special horse race organized by Count Falko. However, the two friends run into trouble when Sophia von Gelenberg from an elite boarding school at Falkenstein Castle, a participant and close acquaintance of the house, arrives and tries to steal Tina's boyfriend Alexander. The shady businessman Hans Kakmann is also up to no good, and it's not just the foal Socrates, known as "Socke", he's after. Bibi tries to save Alex and Tina's relationship on the one hand and expose Kakmann's business practices on the other. But even witchcraft can't prevent her from turning everyone against her, Count Falko enrolling his son in boarding school and Kakman offering to buy the foal "Socke".
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-06
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Heimweh nach drüben
Overview: This TV movie focuses on an average East German citizen, who accidentally becomes a Cold War victim. Shortly before his wedding day, East German Stephan Busemann goes to West Germany to attend his brother Hubert's fiftieth birthday. At the same time, his son Martin and his daughter-in-law Bettina flee their communist home country in a balloon, what Stephan didn't know. As the East Germans believe he helped them to escape, he isn't allowed to return, so Martin writes a letter to the country's leader Erich Honecker. However, now the West Germans think that Stephan is a spy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
Overview: When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Don't Call Me Grandpa
Overview: Despite being 45, Werner still likes putting on the style and enjoys being a womanizer, who usually ends up in bed with the female guests that stay at the hostel in which he temporarily works. But then, Werner has to learn to take on responsibility. When he was 18, he and his former girlfriend Tine, had a daughter called Julia, who is a mother herself now. Whenever she is in desperate need of a babysitter, she approaches Werner, who then grudgingly accepts. But Werner has discovered that this new "job" is a real godsend, as when he takes his granddaughter to the playground, he is a great hit with the ladies. He especially likes Kathie, who comes there with her little son Finn. Of course, he can't let her know that he is a granddad and so he says that he is Zora's father… and to Julia's surprise - but also joy - he wants to babysit Zora as often as possible.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Call Me Helen
Overview: Is. This. My. Son? No matter how often Tobias Wilke poses this question, there's always only one answer: Yes! Tobias, can't believe his eyes when he comes to the airport to pick up his 17-year-old son Finn – and learns that Finn is now calling herself Helen and wearing girls' clothes. Finn/Helen reveals that she's always was a girl, and that she used her year abroad in San Francisco to pass the "everyday life" test. This is required by law for everyone preparing for the sex reassignment surgery they will undergo upon reaching majority. Reactions from Helen's friends, acquaintances and schoolmates cover the entire gamut from derision to solidarity. Especially Helen's father, a well-known chef, finds it difficult to accept a situation he cannot understand. But Helen nearly always finds the right words - and humor - to counterbalance the ignorance and jeers of those around her. It is the beginning of a long, winding road towards the sexual identity she is convinced is hers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-22
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Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
Overview: Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-13
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Ein Reihenhaus steht selten allein
Overview: After some back and forth are graphic designers Jan Börner can finally bring himself and his wife Anne and their children Lisa and Luke a terraced house in a modern housing estate to relate. But a short time later reveal the dark side of this decision. In the midst of gossiping settlement residents privacy is nil. To make matters worse, the busy neighbors feel even called to overwhelm Jan and Anne with supposedly helpful advice for running the household and raising children. The tense atmosphere in the family finally reached a new climax when one day Jan's ex-girlfriend Maren moves into the house next door ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Die Handschrift des Mörders
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Crashkurs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-23
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Bibi & Tina: Girls vs. Boys
Overview: At summer camp, young Bibi and her friends are pitted against the boys in a treasure hunt. But what's a witch to do when she loses her powers?
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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Hunters in the Night
Overview: Back on duty after alcohol withdrawal, Commissioner Bonì is investigating the case of a missing student. Eddie, a teenager, found a badly abused young woman in a barn. Now he's dead ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-18
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Blonder als die Polizei erlaubt
Overview: Nothing bores Dana more than her job as a guard in an Egyptian museum. But when she falls into a sarcophagus with undercover investigator Nils, she suddenly finds herself in the investigation of the suspected art dealer Johannes Brecht. To make matters worse, she stumbles across a corpse in Brecht's garden, which suddenly disappears again. Chaos reigns and Nils has to trust Dana, because she has become indispensable to him...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-24
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Zonenmädchen
Overview: In her documentary, director Sabine Michel revisits her own experiences during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's subsequent reunification, as well as those of her four friends Claudi, Vera, Claudia and Veruscha. The five women were about 18 years old at that time, and belonged to the last school class in Dresden to graduate in the German Democratic Republic. The country and society school had prepared them for suddenly ceased to exist, thus they had to completely start anew. More than twenty years later, the five women travel to Paris together. During the train ride, they talk about their former dreams and aspirations, and how different their lives turned out to be.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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Fanny und die geheimen Väter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-05-27
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Fanny und die gestohlene Frau
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-03
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Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium
Overview: It's perfect pandemonium when Bibi and Tina meet a runaway boy with an attitude problem, who turns out to actually be a girl, named Adea. Adea‘s uncle is so narrow-minded and stubborn that even with all her magic spells, Bibi can't manage to get the two to reconcile. Meanwhile, Falkenstein Castle is being renovated, which is driving the Count to his wits' end. Especially since Alex is planning to hold a music festival at Falkenstein and is determined to go through with it over his father's objections. And if all that was not enough, Tina gets kidnapped. Despite the complete chaos, one thing is clear - in the end, real change comes from everybody working and pulling together, not by magic.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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Neues aus dem Reihenhaus
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-05-26
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Weiber! Schwestern teilen. Alles.
Overview: Ama, Senta and Klara are sisters in their thirties and couldn't be more different. Ama studies medicine, Senta is a dedicated prostitute and Klara is more of a house maker, who desperately wants a child, even if it is from her abusive, lorry driver husband. Their parents, Rosa and Erich (who suffers from dementia) are tucked away in and old peoples home, which affords the girls some peace and quiet.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-03-01
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Vom Ende der Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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West
Overview: East Germany. Summer, late 70's. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij's apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij's mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Boxhagener Platz
Overview: Feature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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Sea of Death
Overview: In the German North Sea a new cellular life form endangers mankind.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-02
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My foreign girlfriend
Overview: Andrea Bredow makes friends quickly with her new colleague at the health department. Judith Lorenz seems nice and competent. And she does not like anything about office macho Volker Lehmann. But then the unbelievable happens: Judith is brutally raped by Volker Lehmann during her working hours in a storeroom. So she tells Andrea and later the police. Andrea encourages her friend to tell the truth. But Judith's behavior seems increasingly puzzling.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Isy Way Out
Overview: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Sweethearts
Overview: It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-14
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Bella Dilemma
Overview: Bella is in a dilemma: She lives with her ex Martin and her new boyfriend Sebastian in a shared flat. Neither does she dare to pour Martin pure wine, nor to quit. Just when Bella has come to an end to the secrecy, a bad news arrives by phone: Two very good, mutual friends of Bella and Martin have been fatally injured. They leave Tom, a two-year-old boy. Bella does not hesitate: Martin and her will take care of the boy. But how should that work in the WG? And what about Bella's relationship with Sebastian?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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The Audition
Overview: Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexander, in whom she alone sees great talent. She devotes much energy and attention preparing him for the next stage exam to prove she was right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into rivalry. At the same time her marriage is collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from her own family and starts an affair with her colleague Christian, who is encouraging her to join a quartet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts. With Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-06
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Die Streunerin
Overview: Werner Träsch, who has just moved into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz, surprises her with a trip to Fuerteventura on the second anniversary of their meeting. However, this proves to be difficult to implement...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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