Leonie Benesch
5 titles
Filmography
5 results

The Teachers' Lounge
(2023)When one of her students is suspected of theft, a dedicated teacher decides to investigate, trapping herself between her ideals and the school system.

Late Shift
(2025)Floria arrives for work on overstretched surgical ward only to discover a colleague is absent and she is required to care for an unreasonably high number of patients. The demands keep piling up as she juggles critical cases and incoming emergencies. Amid this chaos, one small mistake threatens to topple everything. A moving, empathetic tribute to undervalued healthcare professionals everywhere.

The White Ribbon
(2009)Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

September 5
(2024)During the 1972 Munich Olympics, a hostage crisis pushes legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) to thrust an untested sports producer, Geoff Mason (John Magaro), into the spotlight of breaking news coverage. With lives hanging in the balance and the world watching, this pivotal moment, based on a true story, reshaped journalism forever.

Persian Lessons
(2020)Inspired by true events, this powerful survival story is from director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog). Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, The Intruder) is arrested by SS soldiers but narrowly avoids execution by swearing that he is not Jewish, but Persian. Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger, High Life).