Jürgen Tonkel Movies

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo...

Elke is shocked: yesterday her sister Christa was looking after her kids, today she is dead. Suicide! And the nightmare is only just beginning:...

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The...

Working life was often no walk in the park for the resolute Henriette. Without any training and with many odd jobs, the now 58-year-old has struggled...

On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks up a real piglet. On top of that, he's given a...

Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way...

Even today, Mathias Kneißl (1875-1902) is considered a national hero in the collective memory of Bavaria. During his lifetime, he was the most...

Mountaineering on enclosed terrain, the young doctor Clara Lang discovers a mummified corpse. Apparently, the dead has been in the ice for years. No...

Oscar jumps on his subway as every day. But at that morning a side-glance wipes every ritual away...Catherine! Two unknown whose glimpses are coming...

Psychotherapist Fred Czerny is finding it difficult to retire. So he shares his busy practice in Munich with Ted Fröhlich, an advocate of...

The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin, senses an explosive story

Rose is in her early forties and a single mother of three – supposedly – adult sons: Bernd, 23, earns money for the family during the day...

Henni can hardly believe it: Canada really is as beautiful as the Munich native dreamed it would be! Her ticket to the world is once again a...

70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take...

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

After years of going their separate ways, a small group of aging hippies reconvenes in their backwater hometown to bury one of their own.