Beate Finckh Movies

Four decades have passed since the end of WW II, and a woman returns to Germany, her birthplace, in an effort to discover the circumstances surrounding her son's death. She stumbles upon a covert Nazi organization who, through a selective breeding program, intend to create a new master race. ~ Mark Hockley, Rovi

A young boy consoles himself with his computer games and daytime fantasies when his parents' relationship falls apart and his mother is put into a clinic with a nervous breakdown. Nightmares haunt the boy, and he hides and watches his father in an affair with another woman. Finally, he decides to try to get his mother out of the clinic. Just like the boy, this children's film seems to lack a strong direction, moving inexplicably from one objective to another. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this strangely aloof teen crime drama, three high school buddies share a passion for motorbikes. They work at the same auto repair shop, and when their boss dies and they get shafted with a phony car deal, they decide on a very dangerous way of paying back their debt. Albi (Max Wigger), Franz (Dietmar Bär), and Tayfun (Tayfun Bademosy) live for motorbikes, spending every spare pfennige on their passion, even setting aside very little time or money for women. All three have low-level mechanics jobs at a grimy auto shop, and when their boss dies from a heart attack, they are left with the shop to manage. Cheated in a car-deal scam, they suddenly find themselves burdened with a large debt to a mobster and either they pay it off or lose their kneecaps. Driven by a desire to keep their body parts intact, they begin to fake accidents with unsuspecting motorists and then talk their victims into paying up front, without calling the police or the insurance company. Their scheme is going well until one day they are looking at a major coup that involves a fatal, head-on crash -- a plan that brings their decision about how to continue surviving to a head. Director Dominik Graf has captured the teens' world well, and the action scenes and acting are good, yet the three teens remain distanced as human beings. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

This first-time film for writer and director Friedemann Schulz is about a budding novelist who leaves school to focus on his writing career, supporting himself by working in a car wash by day. A newspaper accepts one of his feature stories, and next he finishes a novel titled "Death in a Car Wash" (the translation of the title of this film, creating a certain parallel between Schulz and his fictional writer). The film itself focuses more on the growing career of the young writer, and his relationship with Jutta (Beate Finckh), the daughter of one of his former teachers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi