A comedy based on Molière's play "L'avare" directed by Wolfgang Kaus.
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A comedy based on Molière's play "L'avare" directed by Wolfgang Kaus.
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
Heinz and Erich are simulating an apartment viewing in prison. Erich is about to be released and Heinz is helping with the preparations. The two are longtime cellmates and friends, and maybe even a little bit more.
American German teacher Andrea Flanegan and computer game developer Kai Westerburg become entangled in the mystery of a stolen computer chip and the computer murders that Westerburg's boss Herbert Wilhelm Peters is apparently carrying out with its help. The search for Peters turns into a wild chase in a society that considers computer murders unthinkable and also becomes an existential threat for Westerburg and Flanegan...
The fabulously wealthy factory owner Eduard Tobler has almost forgotten what it was like to have no money and no power. Now he wants to relive that experience. Under the name Meier, he enters a competition run by his own company and wins second prize: a two-week stay at a grand hotel in St. Moritz. He takes his chauffeur Johann with him as his companion, who has to pretend to be a wealthy industrialist during their stay at the hotel. Tobler's daughter Hedi fears disaster and informs the hotel of the arrival of the mysterious guest. However, Dr. Fritz Hagedorn, an unemployed advertising expert who won first prize in the competition, is mistakenly taken for the millionaire and pampered accordingly. Tobler, on the other hand, is given a tiny attic room without heating and is bullied and harassed by the hotel management in every way possible. Now the comedy of errors can take its course.
After 40 years of marriage, Eva's grandma Lotti has had enough. She's seriously thinking about splitting up and moving out. Eva, hoping to prevent the geriatric meltdown, cancels her planned vacation with her boyfriend Johannes and spirits Lotti off to Lake Garda in Italy, where granny has always longed to go. And where, Tobias, Eva's new flame, is also bound. Instead of bringing granny to her senses, Eva ends up turning her own life upside down. Johannes or Tobias? Security or excitement? It's a tough choice. Maybe she could ask her grandma for advice, if Lotti wasn't so involved with her own emotional chaos.
A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil.
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
20 short films about human rights.
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
Self-proclaimed directing talent Cowboy comes to Berlin with the aim of finally making a big movie. He confidently accepts every assignment, only for it to lead to disaster. When Cowboy meets the artist Yps and shoots an art porn film with her, he stirs up an artistic can of worms that far exceeds his amateurish qualities.
When the US embassy opens the green card lottery visa, Assad writes hundreds of stories about imaginary families running away from the war and submits them. When one of the stories is accepted, Kamal, a repatriated Somali-American, helps him to find the right characters for the embassy interviews. The two have sent hundreds of fake families to the US but now their scam is about to be discovered.
Stefan's mother is interviewed by a television crew at her home. On the subject of how a single mother, who is actively involved in the work process, copes, the son, who is present, only gives snotty answers. Stefan works as an apprentice bricklayer and helps to build the French Cathedral on Berliner Platz der Akademie. On the day of his 18th birthday, he tells his mother that he is moving out. In his new surroundings, Stefan meets Christel, a telegram messenger, with whom he falls in love. An attempt to spend a night together in his mother's spare apartment fails, as Christel immediately wants to tie him down. Stefan's mother also arrives earlier than expected. She still hasn't given up on her son. There is a lot of trouble when she catches him working as a toilet attendant in a pub.
Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde makes the successful British author a lucrative offer. But shortly after the negotiations, the American is found dead at the airport and a fierce battle for the diary begins. Telligan's wife Harriet and daughter Marsha also feel the effects. Terrorists, the CIA and Scotland Yard suddenly take an interest in the book. But Telligan's beautiful secretary Liz Ferber defies all threats and saves the manuscript from shady characters and brutal intruders. Will she uncover the secret of the book?
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
Helene Sonntag, 40, unmarried and a teacher. She has long dreamed of happy partnership, but things turn out as they should. In order to avoid the work overload caused by substitute teaching and vacation childcare, she is forced to make a move.
In the third part of the TV movie series about the Teuffel family, it is once again family man Steffen who shakes up everyday life in the Brandenburg village of Krummenwalde in a remarkable way. He has been doing this regularly since the family of five moved to the provinces. However, he has never lured the Russian mafia to Krummenwalde. This time he has.
A stuntman relentlessly tries to win the favor of some female restaurant owners who are supposed to finance his karate school. In the end, his scam no longer works because the women gang up on him.
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
After a successful coup in a luxury hotel in Lichtenstein, the jewel-thief Claire hardly dares her eyes: among the guests are her old "colleague" and former lover Vinzenz Kröger, who now leads a middle-class life. Actually, Claire does not want to have anything to do with the charming rascal. However, he is not ready to let Claire disappear again after he has finally found her again. From a spectacular jewel robbery to sophisticated arrogance, the duo experiences a lot of turbulence - and the emotional life of the two gets really up in the air ...
Alex Gaul is convinced that he will soon make it big as an actor. Until then, he'll just have to continue playing the porn stud. His seriously ill grandmother's last wish to see him on television forces him to do something quickly. his resemblance to Zacharias Zucker, whom his grandmother adores, gives Alex a daring idea: he could swap places with the home movie star? but the bitchy Zucker can only be convinced by a skillful knockout blow. The problems for Alex are only just beginning. He has to protect his cover with increasingly absurd and daring actions and at the same time prevent the charming hotel employee Yve from mistaking him, Alex, for Zucker, making her unattainable for Alex. But soon even Alex no longer knows whether he is him or Zucker.
The kind Marie Meyer always has an ear for the worries of others. When she meets Tommy, a boy with asthma whose mother died in an accident, she becomes his fairy godmother.
For Johann Friedrich von Allmen, boredom is not an acceptable condition. During an uninspiring reading, the art detective spontaneously steals a famous Fabergé egg from the host's possession. His security officer, Krähenbühler, does not allow the unusual robber to be exposed, but tries to blackmail von Allmen into an even more brazen theft.
The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Maria surprisingly finds the loot of a bank robbery in the trash, she takes the opportunity to get rid of her lover, only to run into her ex-husband shortly afterwards. The old passion flares up again and Martin suddenly sees the chance to finally realize his long-held script.
The co-founders of the Rocket Beans look back on their careers in this stage show performend on Mai 2019 inside the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg. The B.E.A.N.S (Budi, Etienne, Arno, Nils, Simon) recapitulate their time at "GIGA Games", to "MTV's Game One", to their own 24 Hour Live-Stream Station in their typically unprofessional way. The anecdotes of the four and others of their creative circle are presented with photographs , videos & other time capsule like findings. All of this in a cozy atmosphere, couch to couch, in front of an audience and a carpet found three days ago in their basement.
Three pensioners who live as subtenants on tiny pensions find themselves wanting to escape the sadness and mundanity of their everyday lives in old-age and poverty. They relish the thought that they could experience one last adrenalin-fuelled thrill during the twilight of their lives. With that motivation in mind, they set about commencing preparations for a big heist. Early Birds is a tragic comedy, a short film about poverty in old age, dignity and death.
The days of the Schlosshotel Seefels appear to be numbered. Hotelier Theo Frobenius is forced to sell his hotel to group boss Mertens in the face of massive competition. Frobenius learns that Mertens wants to secretly inspect the hotel. In order to drive up the price, the hotelier wants to make him believe that the business is flourishing.
Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
What happens when “old” and “new work” collide? Barbara Lucke was the grand dame of the works council at Sander Versandhaus for decades. Now, after 30 years, she is unexpectedly voted out of office, loses her leave of absence and has to return to her old job as a former clerk shortly before retirement - in the department of her son Bastian, of all places, who as an up-and-coming department head wants and needs to impress with modern leadership.
The morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world. While making the film, they discover new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns around the research methodology of Western anthropologists of performing ethnologic studies, and then popularising them by means of a documentary film.
Pastor Petersen is threatened with the loss of his parish and thus also his office: The parishes of the villages of Norderup and Toestrup are to merge, but the stuffy neighbors are bothered by the fact that Petersen and his girlfriend are living in a wild marriage. Petra, a hearty Westphalian, refuses to be blackmailed and offers the bourgeois from Norderup a performance they will never forget. Meanwhile, her friends from the Ruhr are also looking for and finding their little happiness.
Three Bavarians travel to Bangkok, allegedly to start exporting German beer there. But the local vicar hears that they only go there to have fun and follow them to watch over them.
Fritzi works in an elegant fashion house. One day she accidentally breaks an expensive mannequin and solves the problem by taking its place.
A German comedy short about surprises and statues.
Because the Alsterfilm studio is in dire need of money following a theft of the cameras, it picks up a group of Afghan refugees to collect money from the authorities. However, a right-wing radical movement gets wind of the matter - and thus the drama takes its course...
Two interns from a Munich film company fly to the Caribbean for a vacation - not out of mutual sympathy, but because they hope to seduce their boss in intimate togetherness. The trip ends in a fiasco, but also in great love.
Vera and Stefan Rabe independently have the idea to snuggle away from their six kids between 8 and 17 to get some work done before Christmas. Both don't tell each other about their plans, so the kids suddenly lack both of their parents and without supervision turn the house upside down.
Horst Adamski takes a job as a department store detective and promptly falls in love with busy shoplifter Lili. His special approaches, however, rather intimidate Lili and call her unscrupulous boyfriend Wolf into action. To make the chaos perfect, the co-worker Erika also falls in love with Adamski...
After a failed relationship, Alexandra Fuchs does not want to meet men anymore. But when she meets her new job in a shy businessman Gregor, she can't escape to his charm. It also has a creative hobby that eventually takes off with a knife indefinite durability for fresh food. A patent lawyer, Fiona, a former classmate should help. But Fiona plays a double game, invents his own and also has its eye on Gregor.
After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation comic from happy-go-lucky Vienna of the turn of the century, the time of the first cars and the absurd bath costumes: Husbands in the Chambre Separee, her little dizziness and mistake plays, the tumultuous whirl of a grand ball... - A high-spirited comedy at considerable entertainment level.
For Hans Pollack and his friends, soccer is the most wonderful hobby in the world. They all worship the world-class forward Pablo Dios. Their adoration goes so far that it makes them forget the birth of a daughter, gamble away a house, "accidentally" kidnap the rich and arrogant football star, and tear apart the family. However, Pablo and Hans gradually develop an unlikely friendship...
Three more years, then she will be 40: Sophie is slowly getting scared. Actually, she should be happy and have everything under control: three growing children, a small catering agency, a large farmhouse and a husband, Hubertus, who is reasonably successful professionally. But somehow life has lost its tension. It will wrinkle like an old apple, worse: like herself.
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs.
Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by the world revolutionary Saint-Claude, Christian love, embodied in the down-and-out, alcoholic tropical doctor Count Uebelohe-Zabernsee, and finally the "Frau Welt" of the old mystery play – Anastasia, who falls for everyone and betrays everyone, loves nothing but the moment, and dies with an invoked untruth on her lips.
Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the Pope in Rome, and no one can stop her plan. She wants to finally confess a troubling sin to the highest possible power. She resolves to make the journey alone, and ends up one day on the doorstep of her granddaughter, Martina. What she doesn’t know is that Martina has a secret too, and that a private audience with the Pope is virtually impossible for mere mortals. Together with sly bon vivant, Lorenzo, the three set off on an adventure – but their attempt to receive a Papal blessing almost ends in disaster.