Burghart Klaußner
10 titles
Filmography
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer
(2015)Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, there is little success so far due to the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Due to his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the Holocaust - he is concerned with the German future.

13 Minutes
(2015)The story of a man who would have changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one man said no: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of history's greatest resistance fighters.

The Edukators
(2004)A drama about friends who are united by passion to change the world. They become The Edukators, mysterious perpetrators who non-violently warn the rich their "days of plenty are numbered."

Yella
(2007)Escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with a business executive, with whom a romance soon blossoms. Just as Yella begins to realize her dreams, buried truths threaten to destroy her newfound happiness.

The Zigzag Kid
(2012)A witty, spirited and action-packed adventure about an almost-thirteen-year-old boy named Nono, his world of confusions, fears and fantasies.....Nono has been brought up by is workaholic single father, a famous police inspector. He longs to be as good a detective as his dad but constantly gets himself into trouble. His free-spirited mother disappeared and died when he was little. Gaby, his father's secretary, cherishes Nono ad recognizes the anguish of a child with a missing part. Police mascot and his father's would-be-disciple, Nono struggles with a wildness he can't identify. It comes from his mother. Two days before his bar mitzvah, he is sent off to his uncle's to be straightened out. Once on the train, the over-imaginative boy is given one last chance to prove himself. Together with charming grifter Felix Glick, an old acquaintance of his father's, he travels to the French Riviera and enters a world of disguises, crazy pursuits, chanson and Zohara, a mysterious woman whose secrets will forever change Nono's life.

The Silence
(2010)A 23-year-old cold case of a murdered teen in a field is reopened when, on its anniversary and in the same location, a missing girl’s bike is found.

Young Goethe in Love
(2010)Germany 1772 - After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform and soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestne. But then Lotte enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte's hand to another man.

Freddy Eddy
(2018)Accused of assaulting his wife, a struggling artist discovers that his imaginary childhood friend has re-entered his life with sinister intentions.

Good Bye, Lenin!
(2003)History is being made. For 21-year old Alex (Daniel Brühl) nothing is moving forward.

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.