Otto Sander Movies

In 1936 Nazi Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in...

An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O....

The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's...

A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.

A cautionary tale about what happens if you scam a kid.

Follows the writer Günter Kunert on his return to West Berlin after his emigration from the GDR.

Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by his own lawyer. The fact that he has become fat...

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating,...

A film about a young man (Otto Sander) in a poor Bavarian village who plays the role of the village idiot.