Matthias Schmidt
Directing
Known For

Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier

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Im Namen des Gesetzes

A comedy centered around the incompetent boss of a German insurance office.
Stromberg

Those who knew them best describe the sensational lives and premature deaths of iconic actors and musicians whose passing left a void in pop culture.
Too Young to Die

In each show, Raab competes against one of five candidates. Only those who answer all the questions correctly and prevail in duels against the legend have the chance to win the gigantic prize money: 1 million euros!
Du gewinnst hier nicht die Million bei Stefan Raab

"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

The humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former East Germany. At the end of the 80s, they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to terms with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
What to Do in Case of Fire?

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Moskaus Imperium: Alter Traum von Macht und Stärke

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Unter Deutschen - Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat

The film documents the life and political career of Angela Merkel. It shows archive images and interviews with contemporaries, including Franz MĂĽntefering, Edmund Stoiber and Norbert BlĂĽm, as well as an exclusive interview with Angela Merkel.
Angela Merkel: Die Unerwartete

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the imagination of the British writer, poet and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), great master of epic fantasy.
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

"The Pipeline of the Century -- How Soviet Natural Gas Came to the West" by director Matthias Schmidt shows touching personal memories. The production is a treasure trove of material in which previously unpublished visual material about the construction of the century and its builders can be seen. Writer & Director Matthias Schmidt ; A Co-Production by LOOKSfilm and MDR in Cooperation with ARTE
Druzhba: The Friendship Pipeline

A boys first weekend with the father after the divorce of his parents. Together with his friends, he makes a plan to turn that weekend into a horror trip, to punish his father. But then everything changes
Roller Coaster

“Liberty Train – Bürger’s Long Journey” sheds light on the events of the PEACEFUL REVOLUTION of 1989 from different perspectives. It centres on the eyewitnesses who, together with thousands of other people who had fled East Germany, were in the garden of the West German Embassy in Prague on the evening of the 30 September 1989.
Liberty Train – Bürger’s Long Journey

Berlin. A lonely construction worker falls in love with an East European prostitute. She asks him to marry her - but they have different ideas about the reason for this marriage.
Plus-minus null

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Das Wunder von Leipzig - Wir sind das Volk

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Vom Kommen und Gehen der Peepshows
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Wut. Jetzt fahren wir in den Westen

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Vertreibung - Odsun

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