Peter Kurth Movies

The unthinkable has happened at a school in a medium-sized town: 16-year-old Luca Reich has shot and killed two people. A year later, the trial...

A security guard catches a young woman stealing in a supermarket, but something about her makes him do something he has never done before.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a...

When Monika and Alfred call their three children to an urgent family meeting, the concerned siblings promptly arrive. But then comes the surprise:...

Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania,...

An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a...

The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the...

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does...

A calm, balanced subway driver witnesses a woman throwing herself in front of his train. The memory of the event haunts him. The film depicts the...

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When the miller died, the three sons shared the inheritance. The oldest, Hermann, got the...

Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years...

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw...

Tammi is annoyed. Instead of traveling to Formentera and presenting her followers with dreamy photos, her mother Simone takes her to the middle of...

In the unworldly village of Dunkelhäuser in Saxony, the clocks tick a little differently than in the rest of the country: the nature-loving...

Set in South Africa's rural Great-Karoo region in the 1950s, this epic existential-adventure film chronicles the exploits of the outlaw John Kepe and...

After the second world war two brothers, Theo and Karl Albrecht take over their mother's company and change it into a highly profitable ALDI self...

Malte, who is almost 18, lives with his alcoholic father in a dilapidated house on the island of Usedom. His mother died a few years ago and his...

A year of decisions. The country and the city are on the brink, the future is open, no one knows where the journey will take us. The First World War...