Achim von Borries

Babylon Berlin

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Release Date:2017-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:40

Vote Count:334

Alone in Berlin

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Release Date:2016-02-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:374

Alaska Johansson

Alaska Johansson is the perfect woman and she is the best in her profession as a headhunter. One day she is fired by her boss, a married man who she has an affair with. He also tells her that their relationship has no future. She decides that her best option is to commit suicide with a poison cocktail. She is saved when a child in a Halloween costume enters her apartment demanding sweets. Something is not right about the child. Later her neighbor is going to tell here that there never was a child. Alaska’s world is turning upside down, her perceptions seem to be merely illusions. When her car starts to act on its own and causes a crash, she becomes convinced that someone is conspiring against her. Or is there another, darker secret in Alaska’s life?

Release Date:2013-10-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

Sechzehneichen

A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Basically a thinly veiled take on the Stepford Wives, just without any bit of humor or atmosphere, but instead filled with the sterile, unflinching and dry seriousness that makes watching a lot of our German films such a drag and a miserable experience.

Release Date:2012-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:11

4 Days in May

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

Release Date:2011-09-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan

Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery.

Release Date:2011-02-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:33

Friends Forever

The unsuccessful actor and vagabond Johnny Mauser needs a change from all the trouble that he has experienced while living in the city. The perfect place to take a little break seems to be in Mullewapp, a little village with a cosy little farm. Soon he becomes friends with Franz von Hahn and Waldemar. And when the sheep Cloud suddenly disappears, the three new friends have to manage their first adventure.

Release Date:2009-07-22

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:5

Trick or Treaters

Three robbers pilfer from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl.

Release Date:2007-10-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:49

Love in Thoughts

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

Release Date:2004-02-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:60

Good Bye, Lenin!

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

Release Date:2003-02-13

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2426

Blond: Eva Blond!

Eva Blond is a German television series.

Release Date:2002-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Under Suspicion

Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become a suspect.

Release Date:2002-08-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

England!

Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor.

Release Date:2000-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Paul Is Dead

A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact.

Release Date:2000-01-27

Character:The one and only Billy Shears

Vote Count:7

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:110

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date:1964-01-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:1