Movies by Manfred Zapatka
Success
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer vali...
Consistency Is Key
![I Am Guilty](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zjLHv41CbjgusaWgppUoAqNg2Ok.jpg)
I Am Guilty
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?
![The Last U-Boat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oBmkWz21T6soSIk2dapGSvqSs9h.jpg)
The Last U-Boat
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.
Tränen eines Siegers
A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his meteoric rise, but loses sight of his familiar surroundings and falls in with the wrong friends.
![Utopia](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9lUJ5cyPSnz1WMvWOXpJwzmOh8O.jpg)
Utopia
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.
![Your Children](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yZRb6rJThmWVKECKNocOb42PCWk.jpg)
Your Children
Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found.
![Mord am Meer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/4Tn0AOp6uItBzVFEIVLP2hR4RoL.jpg)
Mord am Meer
Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin to the scattered remnants of the RAF and its sti...
![Empfänger unbekannt](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ZHDSTKisJtt6vWaDkkxL9Auhaq.jpg)
Empfänger unbekannt
A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man.
![The Puppet Grave Digger](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9daCVAUVcjpjl7XMyLekdnwiVD3.jpg)
The Puppet Grave Digger
In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.
Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ...
![The Forgotten](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xXHC5wu5yQbQKhMquL2N6RbPezk.jpg)
The Forgotten
Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery.
![Besondere Schwere der Schuld](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mWuFLVMZVS9swRhXn474a4N4y4V.jpg)
Besondere Schwere der Schuld
Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and the bodies could not be found. After being released from prison, he returns to his hometown. People there treat him with distrust and disdain.
![Ebbies Bluff](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/frnKudKDPokMIA16wqtRzIHnkN6.jpg)
Ebbies Bluff
![Who We Were](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/o18WujwpHeS237L0zOxK3BKgDLa.jpg)
Who We Were
A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future.
Hamburger Lektionen
The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi delivered in January 2000.