Movies: Michael Gwisdek

Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88....

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Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a blood-seekin...

The story of a police officer who drives his son to commit a crime with his unshakeable know-it-all attitude....

Marga Engel, the likeable and self-confident cook, has built up a new life for herself with a lot of energy and love: she works as a cook and "financial manager" in a children's home, whose little residents have taken the shrewd woman very much to th...

The king turns 70 in a few days, when he is supposed to give up his crown. His sister has waited for this day all her life: Finally, she will step out of her brother's shadow and assume power in the realm. Or will the king's son assume the throne ins...

Marga Engel, a cook in a Bavarian country inn, has had a little house built with money she inherited. But the topping-out ceremony ends in disaster. Marga has been robbed of her house by the fraudulent building company Ohrmann. But someone like Marga...

A life-threatening heart attack confines Richard Roth to the hospital bed. There, Richard, who is in his late fifties, asks himself what will remain of him and his life. What happened to his four daughters? Do they take after him? How have they devel...

Elke is shocked: yesterday her sister Christa was looking after her kids, today she is dead. Suicide! And the nightmare is only just beginning: Christa leaves behind horrendous debts and a junk property that she financed with overpriced interest on a...

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The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Mari...

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1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a sense of opportunity. She wants to break away from the semi-world milieu, he try a comeback in the boxing...

Kaiser, an unemployed civil engineer, receives a tempting offer to become managing director of Zielbau GmbH....

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Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, or "cordial, heartfelt welcome." However, once he finds employment, what he experiences is anything b...

The noble Madame de la Lommerane lives her life with pleasure and sophistication, naturally according to her social rules. Her partner, the Marquis d'Arcis, does not play along with her game—he has his own ideas about life. To counteract the somewhat...

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