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Max Gleschinski

Max Gleschinski

Directing

Biography

Max Gleschinski was born in Rostock in 1993. Alongside his studies in philosophy and English, he began working as a freelance filmmaker in 2014. After various short films and music videos, he and his cinematographer Jean-Pierre Meyer-Gehrke produced their feature film debut KAHLSCHLAG, which premiered at the Hofer Filmtage in 2018 and won the New German Cinema Award. After a successful festival tour, KAHLSCHLAG was released in cinemas throughout Germany in March 2020 (UCM ONE). His second feature film ALASKA received a Lola nomination for best screenplay in 2021 (German Screenplay Award) and is currently in post-production (ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel / Wood Water Films). Meanwhile, Max's third feature film BAHRI is already in the financing phase. In addition to producing feature films and documentaries, Max runs a story development lab in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Known For

Polizeiruf 110
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971
Alaska
7.0

Kerstin floats stoically across the Mecklenburg Lake District in her red GDR kayak. Aimlessly, between tourism and dreariness, she glides over the water for days, striving to remain alone. The many rivers and lakes are familiar to her. But where does Kerstin come from? What is she fleeing from? Who is pursuing her? The evenness of this journey breaks when Alima appears, finally asking the paddling loner the right questions.

Alaska

2023
A Clear Felling
4.5

Martin and Eric grew up in a small village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. They have been friends since they were little boys and met when they were fishing, and from then on went to the lake together every Sunday. But their friendship is also marked by rivalry, because on one of their trips together they also met Frenni, who both fell in love with. The three of them roamed the woods and fields as children and remained friends when they grew up and Frenni got together with Eric. The couple is inseparable and very much in love, and this great love and the friendship of the threesome is only repeatedly tested by the drunken attacks by Eric’s unpredictable, aggressive twin brother Basti.

A Clear Felling

2020
Effigy: Poison and the City
7.0

1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together – while the other would do anything not to lose hers. -- Based on a true story.

Effigy: Poison and the City

2020
Gott liebt ein menschliches Weib
N/A

He is not weak-willed tied to an unnatural law. He seeks the woman that absolutely loves him. It longs him for the only thing that frees him from his loneliness - for love. Is this a story of a virgin and her hero?

Gott liebt ein menschliches Weib

2016
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Two couples meet on a deserted beach. Politeness soon turns into an emotional and physical striptease.

Nude Pictures

2020
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Das Versteck

2023
Stille Sommer
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Escape from everyday life in freedom and community and live utopias - for many organizers and artists, the secret of the music festivals that make culturally weak Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people every summer. But instead of freedom, community and utopia, there was one thing above all in the festival summers of 2020 and 2021: silence.

Stille Sommer

2023
Bernd - Operation Germanenkind
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An in-depth look at how fascism hides behind facades of a tolerant, intellectual and open-minded society.

Bernd - Operation Germanenkind

2026
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Gespensterwald

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Schwarzer Sommer

Hello, Lola
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The idyllic togetherness between Frieda and her boyfriend Karl is disrupted by a sudden visit from Frieda's little sister Lola. The flat is small, and the couple already have enough on their hands with their studies and work. But Lola wants to stay, which not only challenges the couple's relationship, but also reveals wounds from their shared past.

Hello, Lola

Infinite Place
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Loitz is one of those former GDR towns that still suffer from the effects of German reunification. For a year "Infinite Place" looks behind the gray facade of the seemingly dying town and questions concepts of home and identity through the perspective of its old and new inhabitants. The town’s vacancy and people’s urge for self-realization create a fruitful look into the future.

Infinite Place

2024
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Vincent and Maya must question their friendship while breaking into a video store one night.

Endzeitstimmung

2017
Zuhause
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Nine-to-fiver Lars gets his favorite tie stolen by an obscure old man. As he follows the man, Lars discovers different ways of living.

Zuhause

2015
Welt Unter
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In this four part episodic film, young people from Rostock live through a day of setbacks, secrets and revelations.

Welt Unter

2019
To Stand and Fall
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Eric finds it difficult to deal with his grief. However, faits accomplis between him and his girlfriend Lydi force him to get to the bottom of himself.

To Stand and Fall

2023
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Richard visits his father for the first time in nine years. Richard's girlfriend Lina feels the tension between father and son.

Lava

2017
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Ping Pong

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Womanizer Samuel can have every girl. But he's feeling slightly odd recently, something is different. One of his former flings, Mina, knows the answer...

Gib der Katze Milch

2017