Sylvester Groth Movies

The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in...

Andrea, a childless single, humiliates herself on a date with ex‐crush Gregor, blacks out, and wakes in his bed. Determined to change, she...

Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the...

Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty...

A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As teenagers, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his...

Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in...

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North...

A prisoner in JVA Weißenburg takes a staff member hostage, prompting Prison Director Ella Jansen to enter the cell in exchange, relying on...

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does...

Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on,...

The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963.

A psychodrama based on the criminal activities of the former STASI (state security police) in the now defunct German Democratic Republic.

In the fifth film in the series, the two chief commissioners Zorn and Schröder again investigate a truly tricky case in Halle. The script was...

At the end of the 1960s, in the midst of political and social turbulence between revolt and reaction, journalist and filmmaker Oswalt Kolle fights...

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws...

A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to...

"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic...