Britta Hammelstein

Murder Mindfully

When mafia lawyer Björn attends a mindfulness class to find a better work-life balance, he discovers surprising new coping strategies — including murder.

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen

A parrot chattering Nazi slogans plunges the family of animal shelter manager Birgit Singer into an ordeal between political correctness, love of animals and the reality of German life. When the reconciliation with the Jewish parents-in-law fails, Birgit is caught in the crossfire of the media and loses her job as well as the trust of her daughter because of the bird, her collar bursts.

The Captain

The Captain captures the final act of the Third Reich as Hitler's dream falls completely into ruins. The downfall is the seen through the eyes of a young German soldier who, amidst the chaos, decides to desert.

Faking Hitler

First sensation and later scandal: In 1983, STERN published Hitler's secret diaries. The German public was fascinated: Did Hitler suffer from lack of sleep and appetite? And did the Führer think Chow-Chows were devious? A few days later, experts exposed the supposed diaries with their intimate insights into the emotional and mental world of a tyrant as forgeries.

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion. The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.

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