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Benjamin Benedict

Born October 19, 1972 · Bochum, Germany (age 53)

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Back to the 90sBack to the 90s · 2026
Back to the 90s
★ 6.02026
MovieRomanceComedy
When a mysterious glitch sends a rising boyband back to 1995 - just days before the biggest showcase of their lives - the five friends race to reverse the time slip. But as unexpected connections form and the past pulls them in deeper, getting home means confronting what they're willing to leave behind - and who they truly are to each other.
Kommissar Jennerwein – Hochsaison
Nov 5, 2026
Kommissar Jennerwein – Hochsaison · 2026
Kommissar Jennerwein – Hochsaison
2026
MovieCrime
Jennerwein has barely started his job in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when a Danish ski jumper falls to his death, the president of the Winter Games Committee narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, and anonymous letters announce further crimes. Amidst suspicious villagers and vain local politics, Jennerwein must unmask a perpetrator who craves attention and is playing a deadly serious game.
Naked Among WolvesNaked Among Wolves · 2015
Naked Among Wolves
★ 7.32015
MovieHistoryDrama
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Open the WallOpen the Wall · 2014
Open the Wall
★ 7.32014
MovieDramaComedy
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
Allmen and the DragonfliesAllmen and the Dragonflies · 2016
Allmen and the Dragonflies
★ 6.82016
MovieComedyCrime
Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity presents itself.
BauhausBauhaus · 2019
Bauhaus
★ 5.82019
MovieDrama
Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.
The General CaseThe General Case · 2016
The General Case
★ 6.72016
MovieDrama
In the young Federal Republic of Germany, which in the late 1950s in politics and justice is still interspersed with only superficially purified Nazi cliques, leads the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer a lonely fight against the coverup of Nazi crimes and the restorative policy of the government Adenauer - he is firmly convinced that only in this way can the young democracy be consolidated. Not only his attitude, but also his temperament make Bauer vulnerable, again and again resistance forms from politics, intelligence services and the judiciary against the lone fighter.
The Policeman's NieceThe Policeman's Niece · 2025
The Policeman's Niece
★ 7.02025
MovieDramaThriller
A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is 23-year-old Rebecca Henselmann, who will soon be deployed in undercover operations. She works hard and is ambitious, just like her colleague Christoph Laurin, whom Rebecca is getting to know. The young policewoman is highly motivated in her operations against drug and arms trafficking. In the process, she encounters abuses of power and encounters right-wing extremist attitudes in the police force too.

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MuttertagMuttertag · 2022
Muttertag
★ 5.92022
SeriesCrime
The body of old Theodor Reifenrath is found in Mammolshain in the Taunus. Accident or Murder? Because the safe is open and empty, inspectors Pia Sander and Oliver von Bodenstein start investigations. In the dog kennel in front of the house, they make a horrifying discovery. Alongside to a nearly starved dog, she finds human bones in the ground. Three women's bodies are recovered by the forensic experts. But who are the murdered women? The dead man and his deceased wife Rita had used the large house by the lake as a kind of children's home and had raised many foster children here over the years. However, the two were not loving foster parents. Rita has been missing for many years. Probably suicide, but her body was never found. The investigators are concentrating on the foster children, who are now all grown up and in the middle of life. The pattern of killings is striking: Apparently the perpetrator always kills on Mother's Day. And that day is near.

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