Workers of all lands, unite!
Zsolt Bács plays the Hungarian ex-colonel Janos Bangya in Der deutsche Prophet, a ZDF documentary marking Karl Marx's 200th birthday.
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Zeche Zollverein Essen
Carsten Caniglia plays the miner Rudi in a documentary 360° series for ZDFdigital telling the story of the Zeche Zollverein in Essen.
We Slavs in Germany
Neven Pilipović travels 1,200 years back in history in the MDR documentary trilogy Wir Slawen in Deutschland.
Charley's Aunt
Andreas Klaue wins acclaim in the title role of Charley's Aunt at the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart.
Star Chefs and Tattoo Artists
Isabelle Redfern shoots for ZDF crime series Letzte Spur Berlin, bridging the worlds of haute cuisine and the tattoo parlour.
Ilja Richter — 65 Years Old and a Little Wise
Ilja Richter turns 65 and premieres his self-written Karl May revue Vergesst Winnetou at the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin.
Charley's Aunt
After Cologne and Düsseldorf, the classic comedy Charleys Tante arrives at the Theater im Rathaus in Essen in a fresh new guise.
Building a House Against the Odds
Lilli Ray makes her first major screen appearance as Katharina Schüttler's daughter in the ARD premiere of Hausbau mit Hindernissen.
Disgraced
Isabelle Redfern performs Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced in Hamburg and Vienna, a play crowned with leading theatre prizes on both sides of the border.
DARK
Ella Lee plays Hannah Kahnwald in DARK, Netflix's eerie time-travel mystery set across three decades in the small town of Winden.
Because We Love You!
Maximilian Diehle stars in Berlin transport operator BVG's new commercial, a reworking of the hit Ohne Dich that racked up a million views in a day.
Nothing to Lose
Sacha Holzheimer shoots Wolfgang Murnberger's tragicomedy Nichts zu verlieren for ARD, about burglars who abduct a coach full of mourners.
Kaiser Wilhelm Saws Wood
Hans Holzbecher plays Kaiser Wilhelm in Das Ende der Habsburger, a ZDF/ARTE and ORF documentary on the fall of the Habsburg dynasty.
And Once More: Amen, Mate!
Carsten Caniglia and Laura Maria Heid star in Sankt Maik, UFA Fiction's new RTL series about a fake priest in a Catholic town.
Back to the 60s
Lea Freund plays Eva in Sergeant Pepper, a Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg graduation film about coming of age amid the upheavals of 1968.
Diva Circus on the Scrapyard
Anna Katharina Fecher and Heidi Jürgens star in the Tussipark follow-up, a comedy of four women clashing on a scrapyard in Bremen.
This Time Bread, and Not Just Art
Actress Marissa Möller receives North Rhine-Westphalia's Cultural Promotion Prize in the theatre category, joining a roll call of illustrious past winners.
The Real-Time Drama
Uta Krüger's crowdfunded real-time family drama Im Auge des Betrachters tours international festivals from Delhi to Bucharest and Sofia.
Fianarantsoa Wants to Ice-Skate
Andreas Klaue plays the ice-skating coach Alfred in Gernot Krää's SWR television film Schöne heile Welt, set in a small town in Baden.
Hot Girls — Hot Death
Deborah Müller and Gianna-Valentina Bauer guest in Hubert und Staller, where a hen party takes a deadly turn with a dead stripper.
If Hopfingen Falls, the Whole World Falls
Ella Lee shoots the madcap family film Hopfingen, da braut sich was zusammen, in which a teenager's viral video upends the world of finance.
Amen, Mate!
Laura Maria Heid plays student Lena König in Sankt Maik, UFA Fiction's unconventional new RTL series about a Catholic town full of secrets.
