Thorsten Merten – MRQE

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…

Gundermann

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

The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Tigermilch

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

Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah’s family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn’t approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.

Die letzte Sau

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

Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Hubers farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her fathers newly-acquired firm in former East Germany. That’s reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany.

Curveball

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

Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name Curveball.

Von jetzt an kein Zurück

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

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love.

Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark.

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as “The Night of the Fire.” The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.

Atlas

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

Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.

Sushi in Suhl

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

Ruhm

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

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.