Lars Jessen Movies

Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and...

German mockumentary about the history of the techno band of the same name. Fraktus were once considered the pioneers of techno. Now, after 25 years,...

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the...

Village pastor Hans-Uwe is worried about his brother Fiedje and his friends Heinrich and Knud in his small village of Toestrup in Schleswig-Holstein....

When his grandmother Ella becomes increasingly confused and his grandfather Sönke simply doesn't want to part with his pub, the Dorfkrug,...

All is no longer right with the world in East Frisia. The weatherproof crab fishermen who take their boats out into the North Sea every night are...

Frieder Schulz has turned from a laid-back type into a provincial in three years, taking care of his cottage, garage and career. As he prepares a...

Summer 1990, Germany in the celebratory frenzy of reunification: In Brandenburg, Andy's youth clique uses the title win at the World Cup for an...

What happens when “old” and “new work” collide? Barbara Lucke was the grand dame of the works council at Sander Versandhaus...

"Jürgen - Heute wird gelebt" is about two lonely middle age men that crush together, searching for the woman of their dreams, on the way to...

Wild Heart (Wildes Herz) is a portrait of Jan "Monchi" Gorkow, front man for the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet, and his campaign against racism...

In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars....

It's a hot, dry summer in Klein-Schappleben. Micha, a pretentious video game designer, wants to turn his late parents' dilapidated guesthouse into a...

Sophie, a successful publishing editor in her mid-30s, is happy enough to be single. But deep down she'd love to have her own family. Then she meets...

It is the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt, in the middle of Holstein Switzerland, directly on the Baltic Sea. The 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who calls...

Christmas Eve at the 14th precinct. While his colleagues go on duty, Dirk Matthies takes off. He has logged off from everyone to escape the Christmas...