Nico Hofmann (Production)
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Works
A Stasi Comedy
East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a life as a celebrated underground poet and his career as a Stasi agent. A choice that will turn back on him 30 years later.
Release Date:2022-05-19
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:24
A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift
An intrepid team of 300 scientists spend a year in harsh conditions deep in the Arctic, on a pioneering expedition to secure vital answers to help us deal with climate change.
Release Date:2021-10-16
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:3
Der große Fake - Die Wirecard-Story
Release Date:2021-03-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Arctic Drift
It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. The mission is to understand climate change, because the changes in the Arctic have an impact far beyond the region. The documentary provides spectacular close-ups of the MOSAiC expedition under the direction of the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and shows the world of the Arctic during the polar night, from which hardly any data and images existed until now. A scientific, logistical and also human adventure of a community of researchers and crew members who let themselves be frozen with the ship for a year in the ice desert near the North Pole in order to use the natural drift of the ice, captured for the audience in impressive images.
Release Date:2020-11-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Hannelore Kohl - Die erste Frau
Hannelore Kohl was the brave political wife, the wife of the Eternal Chancellor. The reliable companion on his way to power. His campaigns were hers too. Last but not least, his success was based on her strength. Hannelore Kohl lived in her husband's iron power system. When she fell seriously ill, Hannelore Kohl retreated more and more from the light of the public to a life in the dark. Until she put an end to her life on July 5, 2001. The documentation chronologically traces the life of Hannelore Kohl using archive recordings from over half a century of German history.
Release Date:2020-05-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
I've Never Been to New York
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.
Release Date:2019-10-17
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:30
Bauhaus
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.
Release Date:2019-02-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:17
All About Me
Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
Release Date:2018-12-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:175
100 Years of the UFA
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
Release Date:2017-08-28
Character:Self - UFA Co-CEO
Vote Count:1
Eine(r) von hier
Release Date:2016-12-09
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Release Date:2016-05-03
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:25
Ku'damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause
At the Berlin dance school "Galant," worlds collide and the struggle between prudishness and emancipation is carried out. The proprietor of the dance school, Caterina Schöllack, has three daughters whom she orders to integrate into this hierarchically structured society. Two of her daughters seem to abide by their mother's wish. Only Monika, the middle daughter, rejects the given path and discovers rock 'n' roll for herself.
Release Date:2016-03-20
Department:Production
Job:Production Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:37
Shed My Skin
The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.
Release Date:2016-03-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:26
The General Case
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.
Release Date:2016-02-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:11
I'm Off Then
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.
Release Date:2015-12-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:98
Die Udo Honig Story
An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real life being purely coincidental).
Release Date:2015-09-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Naked Among Wolves
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.
Release Date:2015-04-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:130
Open the Wall
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.
Release Date:2014-11-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:35
The Physician
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Release Date:2013-12-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1081
Das Mädchen mit dem indischen Smaragd
Release Date:2013-11-10
Department:Production
Job:Production Manager
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
16 × Deutschland
Release Date:2013-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Robin Hood
Release Date:2013-08-20
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
George
Release Date:2013-06-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
Hanni & Nanni 3
The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoiselle Bertoux is delighted to stage “Romeo and Juliet” with real boys, both Hanni and her sister Nanni fall for their “Romeo,” Clyde.
Release Date:2013-05-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:35
Generation War
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
Release Date:2013-03-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:419
Herztöne
As a little girl, Lissie Lensen had only one dream: to become a princess. Consequently, she has now ended up with the trendy women's magazine "Gossip". But unfortunately only as a small assistant, because her boss Carmen doesn't trust her to go on a celebrity hunt with the right bite. Only when Lissie has a hot one-night stand with the handsome Paul does her life change abruptly: Paul is the fiancé of the Danish princess and heir to the throne, Silvia.
Release Date:2013-02-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:7
The Inventive Lady
After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.
Release Date:2013-01-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Rommel
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Release Date:2012-11-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:69
The Tower
A seemingly sheltered family living behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany begins to crumble, in a climate of fear, mistrust, and shocking secrets.9
Release Date:2012-10-03
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:11
The Case of Jakob von Metzler
Release Date:2012-09-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Shores of Hope
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
Release Date:2012-07-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:27
Hanni & Nanni 2
The summer break is over and the twins returned to Lindenhof. That has now changed a lot. Because Mrs Theobald had to travel, Mademoiselle Bertoux has taken the lead.
Release Date:2012-05-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:36
München '72 - Das Attentat
Release Date:2012-03-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:13
The Fourth State
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
Release Date:2012-03-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:53
She Deserved It
Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?
Release Date:2011-09-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:7
Vorzimmer zur Hölle - Streng geheim!
Secretary Jule fights for the love of her boss Phillip and against shady investors who are not only cutting into his chair...
Release Date:2011-04-25
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:4
Hanni & Nanni
Hanni and Nanni are not only sisters, but also best friends. The twins are inseparable and always up to something. When they cause a wild chase through a department store, their wealthy parents have had it: They send the girls to the posh boarding school Lindenhof in order to teach them some manners. While sweet-tempered Nanni quickly makes new friends, the impulsive Hanni has a hard time accustoming herself.
Release Date:2010-06-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:43
Until Nothing Remains
"Until Nothing Remains” is based on countless reports from Scientology dropouts and shows the sect’s unscrupulous actions.
Release Date:2010-03-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
Die Grenze
Release Date:2010-03-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
The Devil's Kickers
After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
Release Date:2010-03-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:25
Lilys Geheimnis
Lily wants to be run a brothel. But corrupt cops threaten her with violence. Lily needs help.
Release Date:2009-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Dutschke
Release Date:2009-06-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Mogadischu
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
Release Date:2008-11-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:29
A Long Way Home
Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.
Release Date:2008-06-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
Markus Lanz
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Release Date:2008-06-03
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:10
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
Release Date:2007-10-14
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Mein Mörder kommt zurück
A young woman whose testimony was used to break up a Berlin gang of criminals years ago lives in a witness protection program with a new identity in an idyllic village
Release Date:2007-10-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
March of Millions
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Release Date:2007-03-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
Die Sturmflut
Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
Release Date:2006-02-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:12
Was für ein schöner Tag
Release Date:2005-11-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Two Days of Hope
Release Date:2003-05-14
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:1
Für immer verloren
The holiday in Turkey with husband Philip and their three children ends fatally for Sabine Winter: Customs finds heroin in her bag.
Release Date:2003-04-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Eine Liebe in Afrika
Release Date:2003-01-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.
Release Date:2001-11-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Eine Handvoll Glück
Release Date:2001-02-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The Tunnel
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Release Date:2001-01-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:97
Beckmann
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Release Date:1999-01-25
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Solo for Clarinet
Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.
Release Date:1998-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Release Date:1997-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Tödliche Wende
Release Date:1996-06-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Der Sandmann
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter. As an entry for the show Ina plans to use a current series of brutal murders among prostitutes. When Ina meets Kupfer, she is despised and fascinated at the same time. Soon she's convinced that Kupfer not only writes about murders, but commits them himself. She smells a smash hit and prepares to prove him guilty on the show.
Release Date:1995-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Der große Abgang
Release Date:1995-04-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Der letzte Kosmonaut
A science fiction comedy directed by Nico Hofmann.
Release Date:1994-03-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Schulz & Schulz IV: Neue Welten, alte Lasten
Release Date:1992-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Boulevard Bio
Release Date:1991-08-06
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Der Tod kam als Freund
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Alles Paletti
Release Date:1990-07-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Zeil um Zehn
Release Date:1990-02-02
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Romy Award
Release Date:1990-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Quarantäne
Release Date:1989-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.
Release Date:1989-04-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Blauer Panther
Release Date:1989-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Der Polenweiher
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Der Krieg meines Vaters
Munich Film Festival 1985.
Release Date:1985-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Wortwechsel
Release Date:1982-01-08
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Release Date:1979-12-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Kölner Treff
Release Date:1976-01-25
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Scene of the Crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date:1970-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:110
aspekte
Release Date:1965-10-17
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Release Date:1964-01-16
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Deutscher Filmpreis
Release Date:1951-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Bambi Awards
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Release Date:1948-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1