Hannelore Elsner Movies

Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of...

The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out...

A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene dramatic comedy.

Impoverished former soprano Anneliese Behrens is forced to leave her house and collapses in an underground passage, when looking for a place to...

Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in...

The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband is suspected, but manages to escape on the way...

Caustic satire on the state of mind and soul of the Czech bureaucracy.

Piskov, any idyllic small town in 1969. One day there is an incident that causes a sensation in press, radio and television, but leaves the citizens...

A young woman is torn between the love of her life and her second passion, fashion. In the first part, we get to know Isabelle, who grows up in the...

Mary and Marquard are painters and lovers, with a common life. Once Marquard gets a prize of a considerable sum of money, his artistic creativity...

While Berlin-based businessman Paul Graf is in Shanghai, his nosy busybody mother Maria, who was only to mind his apartment, opens his mail, finds a...

On Wednesday night, violent criminal Karl Schanz escapes from Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison. Disguised as a policeman, he manages to get to the...

A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey...