Thomas Thieme – MRQE

The Door

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter’s death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.

Das Vorspiel

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

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…

Das kalte Herz

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

German TV adaptation of Wilhelm Hauffs fairy tale Heart of Stone.

Rommel (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

An ohi emeis, poioi?

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Der ganz große Traum

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

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

Die Tür

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Liebe Mauer

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

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who’s just moved into a flat next to Sascha’s watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.

Berlin ’36

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938.

Das Leben der Anderen

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

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.