Hans-Michael Rehberg

Impeccably styled and unflinchingly grim, this darkly humorous tale of a pop star past his prime finds Ulrich Seidl at his audacious best.

A prison warden's son begins a relationship with a prisoner upon release. However, they find it challenging to be left alone by the rest of the world.

A woman suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact, when an invisible, unyielding wall surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing.

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.