Bert Schmidt

Norbert Witte, once the king of the only amusement park of the former GDR, today he is behind bars in Germany. When fleeing bankruptcy in Berlin, Norbert Witte and his family secretly shipped their rollercoasters to Peru. Things went wrong here too. In a desperate attempt, Norbert tried to smuggle cocaine to Germany. Three years later his 23 years old son Marcel was sentenced to 20 years in a Peruvian prison. Now the father is doing everything he can in order to free his son.

Herbert (Heinz Lieven) is a solid, middle-class engineer who one day quits his job and ensconces himself at home (preferably in the bathroom), refusing to say very much to anyone. His wife (Dorothea Moritz ) is all the more upset at his behavior because on Sunday mornings he goes out into the street and yells at the top of his lungs for everyone to "get up." Eventually, the hard-working wife who is also earning their support convinces Herbert to go to a clinic for treatment. But is it a clinic he needs? Or is Herbert rebelling against a society that is too ordered, too sterile, too buried in the monotony of routine?

The filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim remembers his humble origins from the unglamorous district of Frankfurt Praunheim.

Everyday life of a bizarre bookseller who sees his main occupation in stacking and sorting paperbacks.

Juliane Lorenz on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen.

This classic film from the 1980s features the legendary, nay, the godlike Teresa Orlowski in her purest form. Ignore the 80s hair sometimes bushy pussies, because this is a traditional porn through and through. A nice plot sets up the scene and then you'll see your usual antics with sex and blowjobs galore. Nothing competes with a classic.