8 Movies Starring Heino Ferch

Winter Sleepers

Winter Sleepers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-10-30

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (3797 Reviews)

Director:

Tom Tykwer

Cast:

Writer:

Anne-Franèoise Pyszora (novel)

Anne-Franèoise Pyszora (screenplay)

Tom Tykwer

Fullplot:

Beautiful blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend, ski instructor Marco, in a small mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, a cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car while in a daze and gets into a car crash with local farmer Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...

The Harmonists

The Harmonists

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-12-25

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

Germany, Austria

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2683 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jèrgen Bèscher (story)

Klaus Richter

Fullplot:

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.

The Tunnel

The Tunnel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-01-21

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

150 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (5085 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. On his own escape, he is determined the arrange the escape to the West of his sister and her family. The idea of the tunnel is born, but the project does not run smoothly. The participants struggle not only with the massive logistics of their task, but betrayal from friends in the East. And always the East German police are close to discovering the plot.

The Seagull's Laughter

The Seagull's Laughter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-02-13

Languages:

Icelandic, Danish

Countries:

Iceland, Germany, UK

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (582 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Kristin Marja Baldursdèttir (novel)

ègèst Guèmundsson

Fullplot:

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.

Ghetto

Ghetto

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-06-08

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

Germany, Lithuania

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1016 Reviews)

Director:

Audrius Juzenas

Genres:

HistoryWar

Cast:

Writer:

Joshua Sobol (play)

Joshua Sobol (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.

Vision

Vision

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-09-24

Languages:

German, Latin

Countries:

Germany, France

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (778 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard's success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.

Vincent Wants to Sea

Vincent Wants to Sea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-06-24

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (4096 Reviews)

Director:

Ralf Huettner

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome absconds from an institution with two other inhabitants to travel to Italy to fulfill his mother's last wish.

Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Basic Info:

Languages:

German

Countries:

Austria

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (153 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

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