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Vivian Naefe

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Vivian Naefe is a German film director and screenwriter known for her work in television and film. She studied at the University of Television and Film Munich and began her career directing television films and series. Naefe gained recognition for directing the Wild Chicks film series, based on Cornelia Funke's novels, which were successful in Germany. Her work often explores themes of adolescence and family dynamics, contributing significantly to contemporary German cinema.

21-07-1956

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Cancer

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Hamburg, Germany

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Balanceakt

Balanceakt

For the first time in her life, Marie has no control over her body. Multiple sclerosis makes everyday life a challenge and puts the relationship with her family to the test.
5.0

Year:

2018

Von Erholung war nie die Rede

Von Erholung war nie die Rede

Gundula Bundschuh longs for a peaceful vacation under the sun of Mallorca. However, her mother-in-law's decision to invite the entire whimsical family thwarts her plans.
6.2

Year:

2017

Was im Leben zählt

Was im Leben zählt

In Munich's apartment building No. 23, one still shares in the joy and suffering of the neighbors. The single mother Miriam fell in love with the pastor Gregor. But his community is outraged. A pastor who is married to a woman who is still married is out of the question for her. Meanwhile, Miriam's ex-husband tries to regain Miriam. Daughter Jule is in need: she wants her dad back, but she also likes mom's new friend Gregor.
0.0

Year:

2016

Zeit der Zimmerbrände

Zeit der Zimmerbrände

After 15 years as coach of a middle-class ice hockey team in Canada, Harry Zoppke has served his purpose. Without a job and without a family, he returns to his hometown of Freiburg. While looking for work at his old club, the EHC Freiburg, he meets Benny, whom he once coached. Benny has come a long way as a joke item manufacturer. But Benny is always plagued by the uncertainty about the identity of his father. When Benny discovers that Harry is left-handed like him and has the same allergies, he is convinced that Harry must be the long-awaited biological father. Benny, in turn, is completely taken aback and ultimately misses the right moment to explain the misunderstanding to Benny. Instead, Harry soon enjoys having a son and no longer being alone. Benny now finally has the father he always wanted.
4.5

Year:

2014

The Taste of Apple Seeds

The Taste of Apple Seeds

When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and things she had forgotten: What did her grandfather really do before he went to war? Which men were Bertha’s daughters in love with? Who ate his apple with the seeds?
6.3

Year:

2013

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful career as a businesswoman. When her friends Bogdan and Mimi adopt a Ukrainian child, she remembers her own child. As the relationship with her partner Robert breaks up, she decides to search for him. She finally finds Oliver, her son in Munich. He grew up in various homes and foster care. He is a drug addict and now has a child himself with his girlfriend Sandy. She persuades him to withdraw and supports him.
0.0

Year:

2011

Der Doc und die Hexe

Der Doc und die Hexe

Dr. Sophie Schöner is to treat patients in a hospital in Berlin as a trial with traditional Chinese medicine. It quickly comes to a conflict with the local chief physician. The unequal balance of power provides professionally for plenty of controversy. The fact that the two are attractive does not make things easier.
0.0

Year:

2010

The Wild Chicks and Life

The Wild Chicks and Life

The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip before graduation.
6.0

Year:

2009

The Wild Chicks and Life

The Wild Chicks and Life

The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip before graduation.
6.0

Year:

2009

Mit einem Schlag

Mit einem Schlag

7.0

Year:

2008

Vater Undercover - Im Auftrag der Familie

Vater Undercover - Im Auftrag der Familie

In anticipation of his promotion, Carlo Lehmann and his family move into a house in an exquisite residential area. But instead of professional advancement, the sudden termination follows! Carlo doesn't dare to tell his family the truth and gets more and more entangled in white lies. When his children find out about him, they secretly try to avert the financial catastrophe with their own means..
6.5

Year:

2006

Getting a Life

Getting a Life

7.0

Year:

2003

Einer geht noch

Einer geht noch

2.0

Year:

2000

Two Women, Two Men

Two Women, Two Men

Nick and Charlotte are a married couple. As both are more than busy earning money, there is no time for love or sex - only Tuesdays. Soon, Charlotte finds a lover, Luis, who is an unsuccessful, married artist. He and his wife Eva also have no time for sex, as Eva has to support her artist and the couple's 3 and 6 year old kids by working in a restaurant. The secret affair of Luis and Charlotte lasts quite a while, they decide to spend a romantic week in Venice, Italy. But by accident, Eva finds out about the couple and their destination. She forces Nick, Charlotte's husband, to join her on a trip to Venice in order to restore her marriage as well as his.
5.5

Year:

1998

Two Women, Two Men

Two Women, Two Men

Nick and Charlotte are a married couple. As both are more than busy earning money, there is no time for love or sex - only Tuesdays. Soon, Charlotte finds a lover, Luis, who is an unsuccessful, married artist. He and his wife Eva also have no time for sex, as Eva has to support her artist and the couple's 3 and 6 year old kids by working in a restaurant. The secret affair of Luis and Charlotte lasts quite a while, they decide to spend a romantic week in Venice, Italy. But by accident, Eva finds out about the couple and their destination. She forces Nick, Charlotte's husband, to join her on a trip to Venice in order to restore her marriage as well as his.
5.5

Year:

1998

Deadly Web

Deadly Web

0.0

Year:

1994

Dance of Death

Dance of Death

0.0

Year:

1993

Forever Young

Forever Young

0.0

Year:

1991

Pizza Express

Pizza Express

10.0

Year:

1988

Sugar Loaf

Sugar Loaf

0.0

Year:

1983

Sugar Loaf

Sugar Loaf

0.0

Year:

1983

Seitenwechsel

Seitenwechsel

The relationship of Alex and Teresa has hit hard times. After 15 years of marriage, the passionate football coach and the sensitive psychoanalyst do not respect each other's needs anymore, and thus they are arguing constantly. Even a divorce seems possible, but then something unbelievable happens: After another ugly fight during a big thunderstorm, they switch bodies. Trapped, they have to play each other's roles, and chaos is bound to follow.
5.3

Year:

2016

Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt

Tief durchatmen, die Familie kommt

Like every year, Gerald and Gundula celebrate Christmas with the whole family. But Christmas Eve turns into a disaster in which Gundula loses his nerve. It was not to be expected that her mother and mother-in-law would warm up the old stories and that her husband Gerald would not even be able to put up the Christmas tree. Gerald didn't want to have Christmas with the family from the start. Gundula's religious brother Hadi and wife Rose are notoriously annoying.
7.3

Year:

2015

Der Bulle und das Landei - von Mäusen, Miezen und Moneten

Der Bulle und das Landei - von Mäusen, Miezen und Moneten

A tall and a small masked man wearing police uniforms driving the local cop car rob 600.000 Euro from a money transport in Eifel town Monreal. Incompetent state inspector Melanie Marschall focuses local police detectives Killmer and Kati Biever, neither of which has an alibi, both had the car keys, even fitting masks where found at Killmer's home. The are suspended, needing to find the -obviously well-informed- real culprits, while precinct colleague Ralf is recruited to spy on them. While Kati's irresponsible grandmother loads further suspicion on them, the cop pair finds several townsfolk and Melanie Marschall in financial need, yet no conclusive clue until a murder raises crucial questions.
6.7

Year:

2014

Einfach die Wahrheit

Einfach die Wahrheit

Prosecutor Charlotte Reinke investigates in a sensitive case: The eight-year-old Laura accuses her father novel of sexual abuse. This indignantly rejects the suspicion. The child had made the accusation under the influence of the mother, who only wanted to take revenge for having left her for another. Does Roman say the truth? Rather accidentally, the prosecutor makes a decisive discovery.
5.7

Year:

2013

Obendrüber, da schneit es

Obendrüber, da schneit es

Christmas! Every year, expectations are high again. And that's why a little dissatisfaction quickly becomes the deepest despair. "Over there, it's snowing" tells of the joy and sorrow of December 23rd and 24th, as experienced by the residents of a Munich townhouse. The focus is on the freshly separated Miriam, her daughter Julchen and the awkward pastor Gregor.
6.4

Year:

2012

Bella Australia

Bella Australia

Bella enjoys her life in Berlin after separating from her husband Martin. She buys her daughter Lena a dress for their Abifeier and proposes a joint trip around the world. However, Lena has her own plans. Why else would she drop a meeting at the mall with the handsome cop Sebastian Berg, who still raves about bubbly Bella? But Bella's mind is not on men - she has Lena, that's enough for her.
6.0

Year:

2012

Wild Chicks in Love

Wild Chicks in Love

Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.
6.3

Year:

2007

Wild Chicks in Love

Wild Chicks in Love

Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.
6.3

Year:

2007

Leo

Leo

A murderous community of heirs is looking forward to big money too soon. After a long time, the Dargatz family meets again for the grandmother's funeral on her farm. Leo, the local priest, is entrusted with the regulation of family affairs and the opening of the will. What begins as a harmonious family gathering is slowly becoming a drama about hidden passion, greed and lust for murder. And the devout Leo must learn that not everything that is meant well ends well.
7.5

Year:

2006

The Wild Chicks

The Wild Chicks

Twelve-year-old Sprotte has a 'gang' with her three friends Frieda, Melanie, and Trude. Together, the girls care for Sprotte's grandmother's chickens. The new girl in school, Wilma, wishes to join the group, which Melanie is very unhappy about, and on top of all of that they have an ongoing revalisasion with a group of boys.
6.0

Year:

2006

Einmal so wie ich will

Einmal so wie ich will

In the middle of the South African bush, Emma decides that things can't go on like this. After 25 years of good marriage, she leaves her husband Ferdinand and moves into the unknown with her trolley case. On the ostrich farm of the solitary John, she finds the freedom she is looking for - and the challenge of her life.
5.0

Year:

2005

Waves

Waves

Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.
2.0

Year:

2005

Männer häppchenweise

Männer häppchenweise

A former prostitute, now a rock-solid wife and mother, suddenly has to deal with two corpses, which she dissects for disposal gradually feeds to the family dog
0.0

Year:

2003

Bobby

Bobby

Bobby Kustermann is a young man with Down syndrome who lives in a loving family until his mother dies unexpectedly, leaving a hefty heritage. There is a dispute between Bobby's two siblings, Nanni and Johannes, as to whom could give Bobby a better home. Nanni and her husband Klaus would offer a “normal” family environment, but Klaus is only after the money. Johannes really wants to take care of Bobby and give him a home for the future. The problem is he is gay and lives with his partner Marc. The responsible offices don't like that at all. Only when the matter goes to court, do the parties to the dispute realize that this is mainly about Bobby's will and that he can actually best decide who he would like to live with in the future.
2.0

Year:

2002

Eine ungehorsame Frau

Eine ungehorsame Frau

Marlene is terrible with men. She tries to find a distraction by devoting herself entirely to her new job, where she finds her good-looking boss suddenly showing understanding for her. But that does not resolve the situation at home.
4.0

Year:

1998

Eine ungehorsame Frau

Eine ungehorsame Frau

Marlene is terrible with men. She tries to find a distraction by devoting herself entirely to her new job, where she finds her good-looking boss suddenly showing understanding for her. But that does not resolve the situation at home.
4.0

Year:

1998

Magic Girl

Magic Girl

Horst, a good-natured manager of a nightclub, falls in love with a guest, the beautiful Jenny. She is high class and spoiled and requires a lot of attention from him.
0.0

Year:

1995

Man in Search of Woman

Man in Search of Woman

A group of men, addicted to pornography, have a chance to live out their fantasies but find that the reality is far different from what they expect.
2.0

Year:

1995

My Daughter Belongs to Me

My Daughter Belongs to Me

A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.
0.0

Year:

1992

My Daughter Belongs to Me

My Daughter Belongs to Me

A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.
0.0

Year:

1992

Mauritius-Los

Mauritius-Los

A comedy directed by Vivian Naefe.
0.0

Year:

1991

Harry and Harriet

Harry and Harriet

A bodyswitch comedy directed by Cyril Frankel.
4.2

Year:

1990

Ticket to Rome

Ticket to Rome

1.0

Year:

1986

Ticket to Rome

Ticket to Rome

1.0

Year:

1986