David Kross

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Dir. Michael Herbig · With Karoline Schuch, Friedrich Mücke, Alicia von Rittberg

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

Dir. Marcus H. Rosenmüller · With David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw

During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order to survive, they must set aside the rules of war.

Dir. Petter Næss · With Stig Henrik Hoff, Lachlan Nieboer, Rupert Grint

Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

Dir. Cüneyt Kaya · With David Kross, Frederick Lau, Janina Uhse

The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.

Dir. Ariel Zeitoun · With Nora Arnezeder, Gérard Lanvin, Tomer Sisley

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.

Dir. Detlev Buck · With Florian David Fitz, Albrecht Schuch, Vicky Krieps

A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.

Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner · With David Kross, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Dir. Arnaud des Pallières · With Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot

A hiking trip into the wild turns into a desperate bid for survival for five friends on the run from a mysterious shooter.

Dir. Thomas Sieben · With David Kross, Hanno Koffler, Maria Ehrich