Heinrich Giskes Movies

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year...

A fanatical anti-smoker falls in love with a smoker and becomes embroiled in a criminal case involving cigarette smuggling.

After a small sample of fabric, the eternal student and occasional dealer Paul ends up in the emergency room. Enraged, father Willi takes his...

Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers...

Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European...

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces...

A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation.

Tabloid reporter Jule learns that her marriage to editor-in-chief Max, which she entered into four years ago, is invalid. Since Max, who has known...

After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by...

The double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and his companion Henriette Vogel on November 21, 1811 at the Kleiner Wannsee in Berlin is the focus of...

Former revolutionary Pat and sex worker Meg run a brothel in 1950s Dublin. In addition to five girls and two gay men, the old IRA general Musjö...

Docker and Dretzke are two police officers from Cologne. But the cases here in the precinct don't win them a flower pot at the CID. And so they find...

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets...