When a German businessman heads to Russia with his wife and son Stefan on a business venture following the end of the Cold War, he quickly finds that the way east and west do business differs greatly. In the meantime, his son Stefan forms a friendship with his father’s local business partner’s son Tengis.
Robert Schielecke
Stefan
Winfried Glatzeder
Alexander Hofschneider
Verena Plangger
Cornelia Hofschnedider
Andrius Paulavičius
Valodia
Lika Kavzharadze
Natasha
When a German businessman heads to Russia with his wife and son Stefan on a business venture following the end of the Cold War, he quickly finds that the way east and west do business differs greatly. In the meantime, his son Stefan forms a friendship with his father’s local business partner’s son Tengis.
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces Christian to a colorful group of overnight workers, including Marion, with whom Christian develops a troubled infatuation.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.