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A film about five refugees living illegaly in five European countries.

Hüsseyin Yildirim, a Turk from Berlin, was deemed "the most dangerous spy of the Cold War" in the USA in 1989, the year of the fall of communism. The sentence: life imprisonment. Yildirim could not hope for an exchange of agents; he had become an "agent without a state" after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yildirim had managed to obtain the most secret NATO documents on the Teufelsberg, the most important American eavesdropping facility for Eastern Europe. He was employed as a car mechanic at the "Teufelsberg Field Station".

1968 is a year after which an entire generation was named - a generation that is said to have fundamentally changed our society. With the cry "Under the gowns, the mustiness of 1,000 years", students at universities mobilized against rigid social structures in the Federal Republic of Germany. It was a rebellion against the established, against outdated values and for more freedom and justice. Students at the Free University in Berlin were at the forefront.

The Trabant - a cult object and symbol of a whole generation . On November 7, 1957 the pilot production of the Trabant P50 left the workshops. The state-owned enterprise , Sachsenring automobile works in Zwickau produced over 3 million Trabant until 1991 which traveled the roads of the DDR for decades.

In the global competition between cities, Hamburg is competing with other metropolises. Urban development should ensure favorable location factors for companies, investors, and tourism, and the last gaps in the so-called “string of pearls” along the banks of the Elbe are being closed to enhance the city's image. Over 50 interviews were conducted for the film. No external experts were consulted. A wide variety of St. Pauli residents have their say: residents, employees, artists, restaurateurs, master brewers, major investors, social workers, hoteliers, lawyers, the district administrator, and many more. Thus, beyond the red-light district, petty criminals, and poor people clichés, the film presents a diverse spectrum of opinions.

ARTE documentary series "contact sheets" takes the pictures and working methods of the greatest photographers of the present under the microscope. In 33 individual portraits showing the DVD box the whole range of artistic photography: with portraits of Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, Lewis Baltz, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Duane Michals and Sara Moon.

Broken Rulz IX was a professional wrestling event promoted by Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) that took place on July 4, 2009 at Saint in Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany and was headlined by Tommy End (c) vs. El Generico vs. Mark Haskins in a three-way match for the wXw World Lightweight Championship.

Nonconformist, onion fan, and erotomaniac: the portrait of a man who loves with every fiber of his being and repeatedly gets tangled up in life.

He wants to work, but he can't find anything, so he robs the post office, takes a hostage, hijacks a ship, sails down the Kiel Canal and back into the German Bight. How blind do you have to be?

The story of a married couple in a conceivable not-too-distant future whose relationship is put to the test by the husband's secret, disrupting their familiar routine and apparent security. Beth's trust in her husband is overshadowed by intense fears of loss and doubts when he repeatedly leaves the house at night without explanation and stays away for long periods of time.

Funny scenes from the lives of humans and animals behind the North German dike.

Fleeing the Nazi regime, writer Paul Zech left Europe behind in the fall of 1933 to try to make a new start in Buenos Aires. The bustling Argentine metropolis became his refuge...

Held for the first time in Hamburg’s Central Station in 2002, this film focuses on how radio can intervene in public and controlled spaces, so that its public nature reappears in the form of uncontrollable situations.

There are lots of beauty competitions but only one Ms. Senior Sweetheart contest: this pageant is the only one in the world for women aged 58 and up. Since 1978 the pageant has invited women from all over America to stay in Fall River for eleven days. Starting with dress rehearsals, noble dinners and performances the contest culminates in the ladies' ball and the coronation of the new beauty queen. The documentary accompanies three of the pageants on their way to the contest.

Gregor Seyffert as Vaslav Nijinsky runs barefoot across frozen leaves at the beginning. Then he enters one of the empty, half-ruined halls on the grounds. The room is a metaphor for Nijinsky's body.

7th Chi Sao section (complete), Theory, Preparatory Exercises, Applications, Sequences, Drills, Plus bonus material... Sifu Niko continues his successful Wing Tsun video production with a further series of advanced level videos containing the entire Wing Tsun Advanced Level programs. In the accustomed high quality and forgoing secrecy, the strictly guarded Advanced Level Sections are shown clearly and in detail.

3rd Chi Sao section (complete), Theory, Preparatory exercises, Applications, Sequences, Drills, Plus bonus material... Sifu Niko continues his successful Wing Tsun video production with a further series of advanced level videos containing the entire Wing Tsun Advanced Level programs. In the accustomed high quality and forgoing secrecy, the strictly guarded Advanced Level Sections are shown clearly and in detail.

A documentary about remembering and forgetting 60 years after the Shoa. Contemporary witnesses no longer live, and the author embarks on a search for an artistic strategy to sharpen the perception of the absent. In a labyrinth of memories we see interviews with Ivoné Simon (né. Guggenheim) from Brazil, the sons of the former homeowner Michael and Claus Fritsche as well as the scientists Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal and Dr. Claudia Curio and others.

Documentary chronicles the lives of the German-Jewish Wolf brothers, who started a popular band at the turn of the century, most notably with their song "Tuedelband," which remains the anthem of the city's football team to this day.

Short film from the Filmgruppe Chaos.

Labor was the central topic of propaganda and educational films from the GDR, especially in the civics classes. A look in the archives of reveals that for decades the same footage was used over and over again. "The New Era" is a small relic which conjures the ghosts of communist education and reminds us of the dream that mankind may in some idyllic future be able to reap the fruits of its labor.

A fatal illness puts a strain on a happy love affair. They choose to end their lives together.

In 1952, when the settlement was built in the far north of Munich, people from many different nations moved in: Latvians, Russians, Armenians, Poles, Ukrainians, Kalmyks, Sudeten Germans – all so-called displaced persons, people with no chance of returning to their homeland or emigrating after the war. Today, around 2,000 people live here in a truly multicultural society, happy about the tolerance and friendly neighborhood. However, this was once the site of a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp: "Living here is both a blessing and a curse."

A short experimental film.

A documentary with seemingly inanimate items coming to life. The film plays in a loop and is used to represent life itself. The dancing fans, balls and flutes all point to the ultimate climax and reminisce of M.C Esher. They try to represent the suspension and predictability of life.

Enfants du miel is a surreal story about a meadow with bees flying around, the queen bee eating her meal and a sweet-toothed hare who is looking for honey. Enfants du miel is a puppet animation film which was made as a stage projection for the German musician and actress Meret Becker.

A team of vampire hunters unexpectedly stumble upon what may be the real thing.