Wdr Movies

Johanna, a feisty 17-year-old German girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, discovers her biological father is Turkish. Without telling him...

This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daug...

A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.

In June 1970 the Messner brothers, Günther and Reinhold reached The Nanga Parbat after an epic climb. On the descent Günther disappeared. Subsequently...

60 years after the holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on jewish life in Germany in t...

Director Carolin Genreith takes a warmly ironic look at her mother and her female friends but also addresses her own fears and vanities. A vibrant por...

Follows the life of notorious slumlord Günter Kaußen, who built up one of Germany's biggest real estate companies over night.

A lone scholar researches the visual and textual worlds of National Socialism. The film approaches a critical understanding of "German identity" from...

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and G...

The film is the documentary reappraisal of the carnival taboo topic par excellence, "Carnival under the swastika". First of all: He existed! See numer...

In the 1980s, Sankt Pauli, a district of Hamburg in Germany, was a hotspot for prostitution and drug trafficking. More or less large thugs cross paths...

Adapted from the book by Robert Muller and based on his own experiences, this film recreates the Germany of 1936, when a young boy is trying to concea...

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his...

Seven children from different countries and very different cultures try to answer why they are in this world. They tell their stories authentically, s...

This time, the undercover journalist Wallraff has taken on the subject of 'cheap production for large discounters' with a hidden camera. Under a diffe...