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Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and traders whose weights are frequently light.

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.

Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land deals.

A ship from the GDR fishing fleet is on its way home. The work is done, the hold full of fish. Captain Nipmerow could be satisfied with that, but he has a completely different problem to deal with - a matter about which he also owes the shipping company a statement.

In order to get her dream apartment, party-loving Nina has to score points with a particularly family-friendly landlord. To do this, she borrows her sister's kids without further ado.

After the death of his wife, 69-year-old Elmar Kern lacks the drive to make a fresh start. But his late wife had already made provisions for this eventuality - during her lifetime.

Like every morning, Linda sits at the breakfast table with her children. But there's a catch: Dad hasn't been sitting at the table with his family for a long time. Instead, Fritz is sleeping in the camper van in the garden. While Linda hopes that the two of them will soon find their way back to each other, all signs point to separation for Fritz.

Matthias and Nelly live in a village in the Bavarian Alpine foothills. The couple could not be more different. When Matthias discovers a bog body in the lake, everything changes.

Count Harro von Treuenfels is suspected of poisoning his wife. Griseldis von Ronach, his daughter's governess, falls in love with the count and sets out to find the real culprit.

January 6, 2021 marks a turning point in U.S. history. The storming of the U.S. Capitol brings the United States to the brink of a political abyss. An angry, armed mob invades the Congress building to prevent Joe Biden from being officially confirmed as the winner of the 59th U.S. election and thus becoming the 46th President of the USA. The lie about Donald Trump's stolen election victory explodes into violence, five people die in the heart of U.S. democracy. The attackers' actions are documented almost completely, as is the helplessness of the security forces. Since then, most of the perpetrators have been identified and charged. But the rift in society continues. Many Republican congressmen remain with Trump, a renewed candidacy for the presidential election in 2024 is still possible. The attack on the U.S. Capitol leaves a shock with all convinced democrats. How could it possibly come this far? This documentary tries to reconstruct and analyze from very different perspectives.

Swiss allotment gardener Livius is murdered in his garden on French soil. The case must therefore be investigated by both the Swiss and French police. This leads to friction between the two forces. To make matters worse, Hunkeler has to cut short his vacation.

Detective Mona Seiler’s new case: 17-year-old Samuel Plessen, son of famed psychotherapist Fabian Plessen, is found dead. Clues point to the notorious “Beauty-Killer,” so Mona enlists profiler Oliver Kern. As more victims surface, linked to Fabian’s hidden GDR past and a missing sister, Mona races to protect Fabian’s daughter before the killer strikes again.

"Cooking is war" - that is the motto of the ingenious, but self-centered celebrity chef and women's hero Michi Griesebach, who has been in trouble for years with the autocratic restaurant critic Harry Dumont. Now the showdown is due to the opening of his noble restaurant: Dumont, whose column will decide on well-being and woe, has already announced a devastating tearing. By chance Michi gets to know Dumont's daughter and starts a covert operation.

On the North Sea coast, jack of all trades Knud tries his hand at crab fishing, betting on sports and small-time cons. He’s just trying to score an award for his Shanty Choir, which has seen better days, when his son Lenny shows up for the first time in a decade.

Police pastor Lena Fauch cares for the victims after a supermarket robbery. A police officer was shot dead. His colleague Susi Massmann did not put the perpetrator out of action. Why? Police colleagues accuse the distraught policewoman Susi Massmann of having a shooting inhibition. Is she not tough enough for the police service and has therefore failed? While the young woman is being bullied, Lena gets caught between all fronts at the police station.

Writer Charles Condomine invites a fortune teller to his home to study for a planned book and learn her particular jargon. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bradman, are also invited to the planned séance. The result of the necromancy is unexpected: Condomine's first wife, Elvia, who died years ago, appears. Was she summoned by her husband's unspoken wish? He is now married to Ruth, which makes his first wife's return from the afterlife somewhat unpleasant. Especially for Ruth, for whom her rival remains invisible for a long time. Meanwhile, Elvira settles down at home and woos her husband. Charles is initially flattered, but gradually two women begin to get on his nerves...

This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.

Everything is perfect for Marc: He has moved in with Lara, they want to get married, and Marc is no longer worried about the small flaw in his best piece. But then Lara's ex-boyfriend Tim suddenly appears on the scene. He still gets along with Lara splendidly, and when Marc gets to see Tim's best piece, his self-confidence is over: Tim has been very generously provided for by nature.

After three unsuccessful attempts at the Olympics, the 30-year-old Aljona Savchenko finally wants to win a gold medal with a new partner in four years. A rather bold plan, especially since the young Frenchman Bruno Massot, chosen by the German-Ukrainian ice princess, has no international successes in pairs figure skating. He moves to Germany and has no idea of the manic perfectionist he's getting involved with. Aljona's training is tough. Constant disputes about the right course threaten to bring the project to failure. Two completely different characters collide. However, the team of trainers manages to calm things down. February 2018: The competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea begins with the short program. Inexplicably, Bruno blunders and the pair sit fourth by a wide gap. Gold is hardly possible anymore. It only remains for them to show the world their unique free skating. Their intoxicating, perfect run will go down in history. It will be the free skating of their life!

High school graduate Simon has a crush on lifeguard Mira. The outdoor pool in Niederwülst at the end of the 90s becomes a place of longing for the 19-year-old, far away from the pressure of family expectations.

Melanie and Walter seem to be happily married but then strange incidents begin to occur. Their house is broken into but nothing is missing. Someone is observing them and Walter is even pursued and harassed by a young man. The situation escalates when they find out that the daughter of their former housekeeper has died.

Horse lover Paul Scheibner has dedicated himself to an unprofitable art: The young man wants to become a rider at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. When his uncomprehending girlfriend Regina leaves him for a nouveau riche hotelier's son, he finds solace with the animal-loving stud secretary Julia. But then his beloved stallion “Maestoso” suddenly falls ill and is to be sold.

The chef Patrick inherits an old, run-down hotel on the Wolfgangsee and wants to convert it into a music hotel with the help of the employees. While there is fierce intrigue and a few love affairs, the hotel gradually takes shape.

La dolce vita! Except life is anything but sweet for Jan (Kai Wiesinger), whose attempts to modernize an old luxury hotel in Italy are thwarted by the local competition’s mafia-like methods. Fortunately, help is at hand in the shapely form of Maria (Liane Forestieri), a German-Italian who originally came to fetch her young son. Together, they get the job done and, this being a romantic comedy, fall in love just as marketing director Susanne, who also happens to be Jans’ girlfriend, arrives to inspect the work. Her suspicions are soon aroused.

Pensioner Gerda grabs burglar Simon (armed with a harpoon) and forces him to be her carer. Anything is better than the nursing home to which she was taken by her daughter Linda. When the daughter has to move in with her mother because her apartment has become a permanent building site, things really start to get "funny".

Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there.

For the music historian Jakob collapses his well-ordered, quiet world, when he realizes that he can earn no more money with his original work. When he hears that a Türkpop label is looking for a summer hit, he sees his chance. Although this genre of music is completely alien to him, he decides to expand his knowledge in this area in order to find "the" summer hit and be able to pay his rent again. Out of necessity, the lover of Bach cantatas and dark concert halls exchanges his old Berlin apartment for an extended weekend for an apartment in Istanbul

With a t-shirt sale the two friends Günther and Wolfgang finally want to turn their backs on unemployment benefits. But this plan is not as easy to implement as expected and in the end, almost everything is different than it initially looks. But one thing is certain: there is always time of a Schnitzel.

Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti has no increased desire for the grueling meeting with his ex-wife. The curious case, which he urgently needs to take on, is just right for the Italo-Swedes: after a birthday party in the idyllic town of Kymlinge, two members of the Hermanssons are missing. One is the black sheep of the family, a hapless aesthetic who achieved notoriety as "Wichs-Walter" after a lewd TV appearance in a jungle camp.

Star photographer Mike Hansen doesn't just want to shoot glamour photos. On Mallorca, he thinks he's on the trail of a criminal gang who is selling girls

Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the RAF. Their childhood therefore ended violently and too soon. In this documentary, they tell how terrorism changed their lives and those of their family forever - and continues to shape them to this day.

An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.

Even Franz Gasperlmaier had never seen anything like this before. He's seen a lot of things, after all, Gasperlmaier has been a police officer in Altaussee for more than twenty years. But a stabbed man on a Monday morning in the festival tent at the Altaussee Kirtag is too much even for a seasoned man like him. And so he makes a wrong decision, not his last one that day, and the dead man sitting in his own blood in the festival tent won't be the only victim.

Berger is a gifted chef. When a serious accident turns his life upside down, he can’t wait to get back to the kitchen. Handicapped but unflinching, he plans the reopening of his lakeside restaurant. While the crew vacillate between loyalty and chaos, his estranged daughter Sarah comes from London to help. She still has old wounds to deal with and her arrival confronts a father who was never there for her, but who now needs her support. In the midst of memories and aromas, Berger discovers what he has never sought and yet needed the most: a second chance at happiness.

A lengthy interview with director Mel Welles who talks in detail about how he came to be a fan of monster and horror pictures at a young age, and the origins of his 1971 film, Lady Frankenstein. Originally released for German TV.

"Are they corrupt?" After arriving in Cape Town, Johann and Inge are amazed by the swanky estate of their son Mark's future mother-in-law. His wedding to Nandi is to be organized by Rosa, a childhood friend of the groom who has flown in from Berlin. Of course, no one could have imagined that after thirty years, Rosa and Mark's fire would flare up again...

Kadeg's aunt is dead and he is admitted to hospital seriously injured. Dupin takes a closer look at his assistant's family and discovers that this was not the only mysterious death in their circle.

Law student Ben has only ever received a monthly check from his father. So he moves in with him - and discovers the unexpected: grumpy loner Alexander Yorck (Heinz Hoenig) has lung cancer, is seeing a very young woman - and turns out to be a professional killer... A bit too much of a good thing. Filius should have left it at a check.

14-year-old Emily wants to run away from home after an argument with her parents. Father Mattes suggests an unusual experiment: For one month, the children Emily and Tommy are allowed to manage the household finances and make the family decisions.

Sissi and Theo are different, as one can hardly be more different. Theo, an intolerant, purposeful businessman who keeps people at bay, and Sissi, a young woman who has not yet found her way and still lives with her mother, would probably never have met if Theo did not go blind. Sissi is in rehearsal as a rehab trainer for the blind and Theo her first student.

"Mom, tell her he exists!" Taffy begs her mother Julia. Her stupid classmate doesn't believe that Taffy's father, supposedly a polar explorer, really exists. So Julia fibs that he's coming to visit for Christmas. But Robert has actually absconded before his daughter is born. Where to conjure up a daddy now? Julia persuades her colleague Volker to step in. Everything is going well when the "real Robert" turns up...

Out of love for her mother, Anna Linke takes the blame for a fatal accident caused by her daughter Lilli and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Lilli makes a career as a model, but suffers from strong feelings of guilt. When Anna is released and moves in with her, Lilli feels overwhelmed by her care, and Anna forgets herself and her silent admirer Max because of all the worry about her child.

60-year-old Harry Stockowski imagined his fresh start in the Canadian wilderness differently. Instead of finding the peace he longed for on a deserted island, someone who is anything but friendly awaits him there. The rough-necked Susan claims to be the owner of the island and tries to drive away the unwanted newcomer with a shotgun. A fight for the log cabin begins, in which the German dropout takes a huge hit. However, Harry doesn't give up that easily.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.

A look at the past, present and future of NATO, which has shaped Europe's security and defense policies since 1949.

Family drama about a woman of strong character who fights for her livelihood after the death of her husband.

Tessa Grant, the feisty owner of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, and David Johnson, an upper-class charmer, face an unexpected turn in their lives. After David's mother Carol loses her fortune to a swindler, they are left with their inherited bed and breakfast. With the aim of selling the accommodation quickly, they move in with Tessa. The Johnsons' chaotic lifestyle clashes with Tessa's regular life. However, when they try to win over Tessa's best friend Bruce, unexpected feelings develop between Tessa and David.

The Amalfi Coast is not only one of the most scenic regions in Europe. In the last century, it became a fashionable meeting place for stars, artists, the rich and famous, and the towns of Amalfi, Ravello and Positano became the stage for dazzling stories. Off the coast, the island of Capri beckons as an Eldorado for forbidden desires and lust for life.

Sportswear dominates everyday street wear; but so does haute couture: what began a hundred years ago as functional clothing for playing tennis or golf has revolutionized the way people dress.

Katharina Tempel, a Hamburg detective superintendent, is investigating the death of a young woman. She discovers that the case has links with her private life: Lena, the victim, turns out to be the sister of Marita Rubesch, the psychologist with whom the commissioner and her husband are undergoing couple therapy...

Immersion in a world of contemporary design in search of more virtuous practices. In Helsinki, German designer Julia Lohmann uses seaweed to create dyed garments; in Amsterdam, Marjan van Aubel creates objects powered by organic photovoltaic cells; in London, the Superflux duo develops futuristic installations to alleviate potential food shortages.

Maren Hilbert is the new teacher at the private elite school Sophienbund. She soon realizes that the school, which looks so perfect on the outside, is in a pretty bad state on the inside. When a killing spree is announced, Maren knows she has to act. But neither the principal nor her colleagues take the threatening emails or Maren seriously, only police officer Niklas Götz (39), the father of one of her pupils, supports her in her research. Maren is certain: the potential killer is a boy from her class and he is serious. A race against time begins.

Even in retirement, Hunkeler cannot give up investigating. In Basel, a theater director is murdered, and his body is found with its eyes missing.