Maria Schrader Movies

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

When writer Wolfgang Herrndorf learns that he is terminally ill, he throws himself into his work with feverish discipline and, between surgeries,...

The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the...

A documentary on Aktenzeichen XY - ungelöst, one of the most popular and long-running German TV programmes that deals with true crime and...

An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However,...

Flora, a librarian, is hitchhiking to a job in a faraway town. Simple-hearted plumber Tim is headed to the Black Forest, a cow for his nuptials in...

Plump Jana is a single mother. She's not looking for a man at all, she assures us during speed dating, but she can't take her eyes off a handsome...

After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but...