22 Oct 2009
Pope Joan
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Lars
East Berlin, 1985. Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers. Now, with his commanding officer over for dinner, Lars struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.
0h 18min
Top Billed Cast
Heiko Obermöller Lars Weber
Thomas Mikusz Rudolf Schulz
Annette Remter Rosi Weber
Christopher Karl Johnson Gerald Weber
Claudia Loelke Edel Schulz
James Loren Father Herbert Müller
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