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For the first time, this documentary shows Georg Baselitz at work on paintings and sculptures in his studio, ceaselessly reinventing his methods, offering a closely observant, intimate portrait of this internationally renowned artist.

Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man's apartment and initially hides in his closet.

"Sog" describes a power that draws something to another body. It is a physical force which is difficult to escape.

What happens when an 18-year-old who thought he had nothing more to lose, becomes embroiled in fake news on Facebook?

DJ Fanal (34), whose real name is Mark, is in Berlin, the sleepless party capital, for two days on business. He has an appointment with his long-time friend and manager Dennis, who already has a full calendar of promotional appointments, photo shoots, gigs and other appointments for him.

A Berlin artist, experimenting with life as an extraterrestrial, witnesses the murder of a prostitute and transforms into a mutant femme-fatale avenger.

25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the family's private archive. The material provides new background information on the dramatic escape story of the once most powerful man in the GDR, his journey to Chile and the dispute over Honecker's mortal remains.

Judas Priest's tour in support of their 17th studio album overall, 'Redeemer Of Souls', was one of the most extensive of the group's entire career - consisting of 130 shows in 33 countries, and offering a setlist that touched upon selections from nearly all of their classic albums. Recorded live on August 1st, 2015 at Germany's infamous Wacken Festival in front of an audience of 85,000 screaming metal maniacs, this concert film unleashes one of the greatest live bands in the heavy metal genre. And as evidenced by 'Battle Cry', Judas Priest rock harder and more ferociously than ever. 1. (Intro) Battle Cry 2. Dragonaut 3. Metal Gods 4. Devil's Child 5. Victim Of Changes 6. Halls Of Valhalla 7. Turbo Lover 8. Redeemer Of Souls 9. Beyond The Realms Of Death 10. Jawbreaker 11. Breaking The Law 12. Hell Bent For Leather 13. The Hellion 14. Electric Eye 15. You've Got Another Thing Coming 16. Painkiller 17. Living After Midnight

Myself tries to remember the secret of the universe.

Set against the backdrop of post-war Germany, the screen adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s short story released in 1949 shows a snapshot in time of Mr. Schwamm, an indulgent husband and caring father, who wants so save his depressed son. During the pivotal night of this mission, he has an odd encounter: Paired up by destiny, he confides his troubles to a bitter and insensitive stranger, who in the very last minute manages to turn the story into a touching parable for kindness and humanity.

At the breakfast table, a woman and a man discuss morality.

A theater production.

Frido Schulz and Rosa Schätzlein have known each other since their student days. But while Rosa made a career as a lawyer, Frido had to take over his father's electrical store. Since then, he and Rosa have been like cats and dogs, even though they are neighbors and Frido's wife Hanne is Rosa's best friend. But then Hanne dies. Her sudden death only exacerbates their relationship as neighbors. Frido's accusations against Rosa reach their climax when he drags her to court for theft: She is accused of stealing his little black cat, which had run into him one evening.

"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.

»It’s just gone?«, Zacharias asks. »Just all gone«, his Algerian-born father, Mustapha, replies. But the family doesn’t forget the traumatizing events burned into the memory of his German mother, Christiane: her husband’s arrest, imprisonment, and deportation to Algeria in the 1990s.

Berlin‘s past and future through the eye of an outsider - nothing but the naked truth by someone being torn apart by life and longing.

Planet Earth is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and a crew of five friends decide to build their own spaceship out of there. On a quest to search for Club Splendida, a rumoured utopia in the depths of outer space, the team hopes to find “the answer to life, the universe, and everything”. Soon they find out the biggest challenges are on their way and not what they expect.

Tahir's life is marked by a daring double life. He is fascinated by the wearing of the niqab, a cloth covering the face worn by some Muslim women, and finally decides to put on the dress. He is surprised by his son but before he can explain the incident, his wife appears and start a fight. But if he had to choose between tolerance and traditions, what would he choose?

Expeditions to the heart of the country with the author Pedro Lenz, who lives above the Flügelrad Restaurant next to the railway station in Olten. An oscillating snapshot of the prevailing mood in Swiss society emerges from the interplay between stories of everyday life and Lenz’s reflective texts in Swiss dialect, replete with laconic poesy and a tinge of yearning.

Two years after the moving documentary "Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib", we find the five young lions who have grown up well. After leaving the lands of their childhood, they went in search of females with whom they could found new clans.

Kathi Pfeiffer has managed the therapeutic department of a private clinic in Munich with great dedication. But now, after the death of the old owner, a financial investor takes over the helm. Kathi's world collapses. But instead of throwing herself off a bridge in despair, she saves the life of another jumper. Although kind-hearted Kathi and cool top manager Clemens Nutz could hardly be more different, they team up to put a stop to their adversaries.

Andrea Fichtner, a prosecutor living in Berlin, returns temporarily to her hometown in rural Bavaria. Her father, with whom she had a falling out 15 years ago, needs her help.

Chief Detective Julia Durant uses unusual methods to solve the gruesome murder of three teenage women. All were female, young and blonde and were found dismembered after performing ritual practices. Even before Julia manages to delve into the murderer's mind, another victim is found dead...

A kidnapped musician and his missing violin are the prelude to a series of murders whose victims were deeply involved in business connections between the GDR and Austria. The investigators of SOKO Vienna and Leipzig are working together.

Silouhette animation movie of the tale of "Krabat" placed in the german Lausitz.

Sven is thirty, eloquent, studied archaeology and has never been guilty of anything. But, since puberty, Sven has felt sexually attracted to children. He attends therapy sessions and is determined never give in to his desires. In order to overcome his isolation, and to protect himself, Sven ventures into the public eye – a risky step that few dare to take. Filmmakers Sebastian Meise and Thomas Rieder accompanied Sven over several years and documented Sven’s struggle to deal with his sexual inclination, without being a danger to himself or others. Thoughts are free – where does guilt begin? Is society too quick to accuse? What place in society is a man like Sven allowed to take? This film puts both morals and enlightenment to the test.

Ex-American G.I returns to Germany after 20 years to make a film and oddly enough winds up homeless on the streets of Berlin. While there, he ends up discovering secrets about himself and his past family history.

An abridged history of motion pictures: In 1888 George Eastman registered the made up word “Kodak” as a trademark. In 1894 Jean Aimé “Acme” Le Roy presented the first film screening in New York City. In 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière filmed workers leaving their factory in Lyon. In 1903 Thomas Alva Edison orchestrated and captured on film the electrocution of an elephant in Coney Island. In 2011 Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy filmed dwarfs dancing on a stage at an amusement park in China. In 2012 Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy.

Manuela and her Italian husband Tino have been through thick and thin over the course of their long marriage. They have two wonderful, now grown-up children and run a long-established company as a well-coordinated team. But then it happens: On the way to Apulia, where she wants to visit Tino's sick father, Manuela finds out by chance that her husband has had a lover for two years. She decides to stay with her father-in-law in Italy. Far away from home, Manuela wants to clear her head again.

414 days, 15.000 km, 15 countries. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone.

In this shortfilm videoartist and Rock'n'Roll musician Hans-Jürgen Vogl explains how to make a perfect cheeseburger

A butcher's son and a choirboy have been murdered in rural Dorset. Inspector Jury sees a connection between the murders and a previous gruesome crime. A mother was murdered in front of her daughter, five-year-old Teresa, who suffered trauma and hasn't spoken a word since. Sam Waterhouse, the mother's lover, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder and is now free. Together with his assistant Wiggins and his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant, Inspector Jury ventures into the foggy region to shed light on the confusing darkness. The trail leads him to the country estate of the Ashcrofts, the wealthiest family in the area.

Pseudo-scientist Abby Freitag is passionate about the strange occult. Together with her camerawoman "M" and sound engineer Freddie, the notorious media woman decides to lurk in a haunted house for paranormal events. She chooses the working title "Scary as Hell" for her project in advance, but has no idea how appropriate it is.

Ex-policeman Eddie is a dedicated private detective blessed with a healthy dose of audacity. His scruffy appearance and unconventional investigative methods are garnished with curiosity and clever remarks that lead him into unusual situations. At the airport, for example, he stumbles unsuspectingly into a staged bomb attack and becomes the only witness to an alleged murder. But the victim has disappeared. Eddie sets out to follow the trail of the crime. He ends up with Katharina, a smart fashion entrepreneur and wife of the missing victim. When she learns that her husband Heinz has obviously been deceiving her for a long time, she starts her own investigation with Eddie's help.

The self-produced NITRO documentary "Werner - The Phenomenon" accompanies Werner's father and comic artist Brösel - alias Rötger Feldmann: It illustrates how the comic artist brought the Werner phenomenon to life.

Sarajevo, late June 1914: A Serbian nationalist shoots the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne and his wife. A few weeks later, war raged in Europe with devastating consequences.

The chance meeting of a German and an American in a Berlin coffee house unravels their carefully constructed lives.

The last few years have been no walk in the park for Richard Beller. The separation from his wife and the hard work at the architecture firm have taken a lot out of him. His relationship with his 14-year-old daughter Marie has also suffered enormously as a result. She blames him for her parents' separation. To make matters worse, his 78-year-old mother Hilde has also become a "problem" for some time now, showing undeniable signs of Alzheimer's disease. She is due to move into a retirement home this weekend. Now, of all times, the most important job of his life is in danger of being canceled due to a technical problem in the office.

Documentary about how much food goes to waste in our society and why.

A documentary about the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). There exist many myths and legends about the Jazz Singer Billie Holiday — one of the greatest voices of the last century. Most of them tell the story of the tragic victim of drugs, alcohol, men, color, or the circumstances of her upbringing. To some extent she contributed herself to these legends, especially in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues". In recent years, more and more records and reports have shown a different picture of her. These statements of confidants, colleagues and friends clean up with many of the legends and show a strong personality who has been anything but a pitiable victim. Billie Holiday was a strong-willed and determined person and a very complex personality who did not correspond to the classic victim type.

Hollywood would be nothing without them: without the stars, who combine a lot of light and shadow, who act as rebels not only in front of but also behind the camera.

Kolyma is a long highway that stretches through the deepest Russian North-east. It was the epicentre of the Soviet prison camp system. Millions of people built them and lived there under the most dreadful conditions. And now the time is running short for survivors or their direct descendants to tell their story firsthand.