Rolf Zacher – MRQE

Federmann (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Recalling Czech crowd-pleaser Kolya (1996), German director Christian Diedrichs creates this heartwarming tale about a depressed widower and a mute child. Since his wife died of cancer three years ago, Federmann (Christian Redl) has felt empty and lost. During the days, he drives the No. 18 tram through eastern Berlin, and at nights he drinks at a local pub as Dora (Teresa Harder), a love-struck bargirl, looks on. His life suddenly changes when he thinks that he hit a child with his trolley. Escaping the suspicious eye of a cop, he takes the child from the hospital to his flat. The result breathes life into Federmann.

Mädchen… nur mit Gewalt

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the edge of a big city on a go-kart track, Mike and Werner meet Alice and her friends. They like the girl. Mike manages to separate Alice from her group and get into the car with Werner. It had been decided to go to a lake with the others to take a bath at night. Too late Alice realizes that Mike and Werner did not drive to the agreed lake, but to a lonely gravel pit. The friends will not come anymore. And she realizes the intentions of her companions.

Ohne Gnade

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Die Friseuse

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A single mom decides to open her own salon.

Lulu und Jimi

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You’ve got the good guys – that’s Lulu and Jimi – and the bad guys: Lulu’s mother Gertrud, her secret lover Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, crouching in his gloomy office like a spider waiting to pounce on his prey Lulu. Light and darkness, bright garish colours, hot rock & roll and wild dance numbers mark this road movie about lovers fleeing from the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society.
A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.

Männer wie wir

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his homophobic teammates cut him from their ranks, a soccer player (Maximilian Brueckner) vows to assemble an all-gay squad within a month. With the help of his sister and a former star, he prepares a lineup full of misfits to take on his former associates in a grudge match.

I Magi randagi

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.

Der Brocken

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township’s mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor’s office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.

Die Heartbreakers

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.

Endstation Freiheit

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal – who has never seen him – and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.