Wdr Movies

A Thai conservationist takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.

A 17 year old tries to find his own identity in October 1958 while Elvis Presley begins his service as a G.I in Germany. He is torn between his parent...

At the age of seventeen, Irina Chistyakova looks back at an international concert career spanning ten years. Irina is the youngest of the four protago...

Documentary on the life and career of violinist Itzhak Perlman, including interviews, archival footage, and concert performances.

While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to sta...

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...

‘Tangerine Dream is science fiction!’ declares band leader Edgar Froese who died in January, 2015 aged 70. For almost fifty years he and his band ‘Tan...

Blues hommage by Sönke Wortmann.

Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly lib...

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festiva...

Documentary about Mikhael T. Kalashnikov, inventior of the AK-47 assault rifle. The story of a tragic hero whose name will be synonymous with struggle...

Micha is 16, a difficult age. Like every year, he spends the summer holidays with his mother and brothers in a country house in Sweden. When the mothe...

A short directed by Mika Kaurismäki.

A film about the world's most beautiful woman, a Hollywood goddess and her forgotten breakthrough invention that revolutionized mobile phones. A film...

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