Zdf Movies

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a l...

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the co...

The movie version of Christoph Schlingensief's stageplay.

Explores how Hitler’s personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the...

A night-time chase. The dealers in their off-road vehicle are sweating bullets, because Diller and Kessel have them in their sights. A routine operati...

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories...

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This d...

Lenz is a daydreamer. Charming, visionary and – as it is good manners for a thirty-year-old in Berlin – radically incapable of decision making. After...

Mila, a young pianist, tries to prepare for an audition abroad but her brother, Niki, keeps distracting her with his annoying talent for the absurd. T...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of...

With the intention of selling opium to the Chinese, and in the name of free trade, the British declared war on the Chinese Empire in 1839. Since then,...

The documentary film reflects on the war in Chechnya based on the experiences of young soldiers who return from the mission mentally and physically br...

December in Hamburg: The city shines in the lights, the people meet at the Christmas markets. Jule has her law exam at last in her pocket and a plan f...

At the airport, customs provide a so-called mule with over a kilo of cocaine in her body. When the chief inspectors Fredo and Milan want to bring the...