Axel Ranisch Movies

Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone...

Sarah is loud, non-conform, rude, honest and provocative. She seems invincible, but she is lonely and lost. Struggling with her daily life.

An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as a promotion-figure for more political power over...

A youth in middle of self-discovery, offending with his father, just discovering his sexuality and hiding it again. A boy who's often lonely loses a...

In a single afternoon, the early retiree Hubert Lotzmann manages to dupe his sisters-in-law, to betray his autonomous daughter Bille to the police...

Austrian actor Peter Kern, who doesn't quite play himself, and the naive Berliner Axel Ranisch are thrown together. What unfolds is a scathing,...

A documentary about the International Queer Film Festival Hamburg that celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2014. The filmmakers have filmed,...

"You can take a man out of the small town - but you can't take the small town out of the man." Clemens Wolf plays bass in a US band and takes...

One night, a person is pushed in front of the S-Bahn. There is no witness, and the police assume suicide. Even Chief Inspector Claudius Zorn paid no...

In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was...

After a few years working like intern, Till, eventually becomes head of his own company, job counseling for young trainees. In turn, comes Sydelia,...

Who is "Kalinka08"? In a chat message, she reports about experiences of violence in the family. A fake? Or does she urgently need help? Sofia and her...

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on...

Steffi is 29, a stuntwoman, and lives in Berlin with her partner, Ruth. Everything in her life is going pretty well—until one day she gets a...

Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship....

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her...

Five German directors celebrate the influence that famed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has had on their careers in honor of his 70th birthday. After...

15 directors explore the question of whether the cinema is dying out as a location, an art form, and language.