Käte Jaenicke Movies

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II...

Summer in Germany, anno 1970. Italy is the number one destination. As every year, swarms of Teutonic tourists make their way to the Adriatic Sea....

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's...

A murder has taken place in the “Ostend” hotel in St. Pauli and Inspector Canisius is called to the crime scene. Mentally shaken,...

After the summer holidays, Marion, Conny, Gaby, Jacqueline, and Uschi are on the train to Seeburg, where they attend boarding school. During the trip...

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.

A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her...

Teen-aged Tonyhas never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can.

After ten years, Hella Mayer and her boyhood friend Andreas meet again in Berlin on the street. Both know each other from common dance lessons times.

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they...

It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in...

A gay man lives with a lonely old lady in a demolished house in Berlin. One day the old lady's daughter stands in front of the door and wants to...

A film adaptation of Leo Fall's play.

Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959.