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A countess, paying a rare visit to her estate, clashes with the man she has hired to manage it.

In northern Germany, the Teutoburg Forest is home to many Germanic legends. Since the end of the 19th century, the statue of Hermann – known in Latin as Arminius –, hero of the Germanic people of the Cheruscans, has watched over the vast Teutoburg Forest. Did this warlord really allow the Germans to repel the Romans two thousand years ago? A few kilometers from the statue stands an impressive rock formation called Externsteine. Have these steep cliffs kept traces of ancient Germanic civilizations?

State Secretary Herbert Boening is a true careerist: an ambitious, married up-and-comer who, despite all his correctness, keeps a little secret. Her name is Gisela Bachmann, she is a model and he puts up with her, but their secret meeting at a castle this weekend will change a lot of things: The couple misses the moment when the castle gate is locked. The shock of being locked in is worsened when they realize that they are not alone in the castle...

Otto Zühlke is speechless when his wife Doris finally arrives back at her family home after long weeks of training. She decides not to let her husband get away with such a thing and the expected night of love is over for the time being. Otto comes to his senses and keeps his word, and Doris can finally embrace her husband.

At the center of the story are building contractor Patschold, who juggles advances and loans, and his shrewd chauffeur Göhrke. Patschold's wife almost suffers a nervous breakdown and his mistress makes ever greater demands.

Klara Sonntag, probation officer, believes in the good in people. Everybody deserves a second chance. This is how she tackles her work. The judge Thomas Aschenbach, with whom she is secretly together, is at her side.

Corinna Kleist is a juvenile court judge who, after a leave of absence following the suicide of a convicted teenager, is appointed to a 'problem area' in Berlin. She now tries harder than ever to change the system in order to prevent troubled kids from being turned into vicious criminals.

Diamond expert Ronnie discovers a real gem: Ginnie. Struck by Cupid's arrow, he follows the pretty chance acquaintance to Belgium. As a front man for Ginnie's boss Demarre, he is supposed to pull off a deal involving fake diamonds. And suddenly he gets caught up in a dangerous game of confusion. In addition to gemstone friends, gangster bosses, contract killers and a kidnapped diplomat also get involved.

Eifel landlady Toni Janssen wants a child, but not necessarily a man. After an alcohol-fueled slip, her ex-boyfriend Hajü, of all people, gets her hopes up. Meanwhile, Heidi accidentally meets an old childhood friend.

This portrait of the great Austrian writer combines a brilliant monologue delivered by Thomas Bernhard and the artful film work of Ferry Radax.

A day trip to the desert turns into a nightmare for a group of German tourists

On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral seat of the French monarchy.

On her run-down farm, Ursula Kammler discovers her brother's body. The two have shared, lived and worked on the legacy of the Chiemsee. For years now, colleagues from white-collar crime have been filing a case over Joe Kammler's strange business practices, but they have not been able to prove anything to him. Sarah Beck, the murder victim's secretary, is helping Hattinger, the network of business relations to finally see through: The murdered seems to have made common cause with a dubious banker. Sarah's erotic charisma attracts the Commissioner visibly in his spell ...

After the death of his cancer-stricken wife, advertising photographer Michael Bender only cares about his nine-year-old daughter Sammy. However, since he had to plunge into debt to pay for her treatment, Michael has been in serious trouble. Because he has not yet been able to repay the money, he is now threatened with repossession. His plight is not helped by the fact that his daughter makes the acquaintance of Julia, a master confectioner. The two immediately fall in love and Michael is also enchanted by Julia's charm...

After a terrible car accident resulting in death and serious injury, Denis was given a suspended sentence. Following a psychological assessment to get his driver's license back, he contacts the surviving victim, Alfred. Alfred has lost all memory of the accident and his deceased wife. The planned short visit to Alfred does not go as planned, and Denis is drawn deeper and deeper into Alfred's world.

Food vouchers, fingerprints, waiting stamps and the discussions with two "individual decision-makers at the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees", their language regulations and the "selection modules" in the office's computer program.

'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has just jumped on the night train during an unforeseen stop - to get to the west as quickly as possible. He can't go back, and in less than an hour they reach the German-German border - without stopping. The passengers meanwhile begin to ask themselves serious questions: Am I helping the young man and risking my own safety? Or is that too dangerous for me? While people are racking their brains, not only is the train racing away, but time is too ...

The heart of Islam beats on the Arabian Peninsula. For there lies Mecca, the holy city of the Muslims. Almost 100 years ago, one of the peninsula's many clans founded a kingdom there: Saudi Arabia. The rule of the Al Saud is based on a pact that combined, and still combines, strict religious zeal with political calculation.

The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead woman's husband, the equally well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the crime scene. The two are connected by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is in a bad way. The detective pours her heart out to her friend. Nobody at the police station suspects that Ellen was seeing Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the certain end of her career in the police force and the probable end of the career of her lover, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed.

Two-time Olympic champion, seven-time world champion, overall World Cup winner – Laura Dahlmeier is one of the most successful German biathletes and sportswomen of all time. But at an unusually early age, at just 25, she turned her back on winter sports and devoted herself to mountaineering. A film crew accompanied the exceptional athlete from Garmisch-Partenkirchen for three and a half weeks on her expedition to the spectacular Ama Dablam in Nepal. In addition to incredible drone footage of the mountain landscape, the documentary also features private moments during the ascent of the "Matterhorn of the Himalayas." The biathlon legend talks about her life as a mountain guide and alpinist after her sporting career, without concealing the dangers involved. Conversations with parents and friends reveal the character and motivation of the 31-year-old, making it clear why this exceptionally talented woman turned her back on the biathlon circuit at such a young age.

At the age of six, Anne witnessed the murder of her parents. Twenty years later, the convicted perpetrator Marc Balthasar is released early for good conduct. Anne, now a popular children's book author, is greatly disturbed by this news.

A documentary about Big Brother S2 inhabitant "the nominator" Christian Möllmann and about DSDS contestant Daniel Küblböck. The highs and lows of short-lived stardom.

A young drawing teacher wins a dream trip to the West Indies in a competition. The journey takes her on a luxury ship to Jamaica and Haiti. The dances and music of the locals and the cities of Kingston and Port-au-Prince with their bustling markets form the backdrop to this little comedy of mistaken identity, in which an unattractive but precious necklace plays a confusing role.

It's carnival in Paris and lawyer Paul is with his wife Angèle from London to visit his journalist friend Georges and his wife Marguèrite. At the upcoming opera ball, the two women want to put their husbands to the test.

Simon is a notoriously suspicious control freak, Lea is more the unconventional type. He has turned his obsession into a profession and works in the security department of a Stuttgart-based food company; ever since he had the employees' access cards fitted with tracking chips, his colleagues have seen him as nothing more than the "Stasi bridge man". Lea dropped out of her degree in food chemistry, is currently working in the company canteen and dreams of driving around in a food truck. She is currently using the old Mercedes bus, a former fire engine that now bears the lettering "Brand Herd", as her accommodation. Two such opposites would never cross paths in real life. In the movie, they can become true love, provided Simon lets himself be kissed awake.

Erika, Dorle and Ilse, three friends between 60 and 70, have always stuck together and always manage to take life on the bright side. Erika's big dream is to have an expensive breast reconstruction. But she doesn't have the money. In order to fulfill her friend's heart's desire, Dorle and Ilse take on temporary jobs and eventually even develop an unexpected criminal energy. However, problems are not long in coming.

Sibirian tiger Pascha and panther lucky want to perform at a circus festival with their trainer. After the final rehearsal fails, the trainer starts crying. Because stereotypes are so prevalent, this leads to suspicions that he might be gay.

A confusion makes the loving, slightly chaotic family man Christoph come to the conclusion that he has only a few months to live. Full of panic, the control freak decides to make provision for the time after his death: He is determined to find a suitable man for his soon to be widowed wife Friederike. However, the search for a worthy successor is more difficult than expected.

To save her married friend's African lover from deportation, Britta enters into a marriage of convenience with Farouk. With the handsome stranger, chaos enters her well-ordered single world. Things get really complicated when Britta also falls in love with Farouk.

As a housewife, wife and manager of a family business, Anne Stadler has everything under control. So the wedding of her only daughter Lisette should be a fantastic event, as she herself was not allowed to experience it. With Elan Anne organizes in the contemplative Black Forest village a social event of the first order, with church blessing, many guests and a big stag party. But in the middle of the preparations, she caught her godfather Gerd in the family-owned sawmill at the fling. When finally Arno Freywald appears, father of the groom Daniel and impostor, the cards are shuffled.

Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and his rule in the years that followed are transferred to the North American criminal world of the 1930s in a parable. Gangster boss Ui needs the protection of the ruling class to achieve his goals and offers his help to their representatives. They initially hesitate, but join forces after Ui violently gains their respect. His victory is perfect and the people fall silent before the revolvers of their "protectors". Ui takes the raised hands as a sign of approval... Bertolt Brecht wrote the play in 1941 in a Finnish asylum - the premiere only took place in Stuttgart after his death in November 1958. It has been staged at the Berliner Ensemble since 1959 - Ekkehard Schall has played Ui over 500 times since then. On January 13, 1974, the play was shown for the last time, recorded in color by GDR television.

Thomas Wellmann is an electrical engineer at the municipal utilities in a small town and is replaced by an AI in his mid-50s. Then a prolonged power cut becomes the trigger for Thomas to prepare himself, his wife and his two daughters for an emergency...

Nikolas, a boy sexually abused by his father, and Eva, a girl physically abused by her mother, make a pact to kill each other's nemesis after getting the idea from a school play [Faustus]. Nikolas must realize the seriousness of that pact soon enough

After her son moves out, single mother Katrin Busche finally wants a partner again - and unsuspectingly plunges another woman into a marital crisis.

Occupation, children and marriage - everything is right with Merrit. But on the day when she wants to go on vacation with the family and her best friend Bea, she learns that her father has suffered a heart attack. Instead of going to Italy she drives to the Eifel. The father is the circumstances, but with her idiosyncratic mother Iris Merrit gets back together again. And then suddenly her husband Immo and the children are standing in front of the castle gate. Her daughter Jule is completely disturbed - she has caught her father in bed with Bea.

Nicky Koch is in her mid-forties, a successful head buyer at a hip online shop and in a relationship with her much younger colleague Sascha Brehmer. When she defies her bosses, she is fired. Ironically, Sascha should take over her post. In this crisis, the invitation to the 25-year class reunion comes at just the right time. There she meets her old crush, Axel Hartmann, who turns out to be Sascha's father...