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As a 15-year-old, Marcus survived several concentration camps, changed his name after liberation, and settled in Germany. From then on, he suppressed his past until it caught up with him again, now over 80 years old. Since he wants to be buried according to Jewish tradition, he needs proof of his identity—the tattooed prisoner number is not enough for the bureaucratic rabbis. So the young German-Turkish woman Gül drives him to his Hungarian village of birth, where no one knows him anymore. Only a blind woman seems to have been expecting him.

A Journey to the Origins of Modern Yoga. Yoga is known to go back to God Shiva, who perfected 8,4 million postures, according to Indian tradition. Far less known is the fact that yoga is at the same time an early 20th century-creation of Indian savant T. Krishnamacharya, which is what this film is about. Krishnamacharya's life and teachings are seen through the eyes of the director on his search for authentic yoga. His journey leads him from students and relatives of Krishnamacharya's such as the legendary teachers Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois to the source of modern yoga: the palace of the Maharaja of Mysore, where Krishnamacharya founded the first ever yoga school. A feature-length documentary including rare historical footage as well as lavish reenactments.

Reluctantly, Rüdiger and Marlene agree to a blind date and, to their surprise, they hit it off straight away. The happiness of the newly in love couple has just one flaw: in order not to scare their partner away, they conceal the fact that they have children. A crazy game of hide-and-seek begins, which really gets on the nerves of their two children, Stella and Max. Stella and Max meet by chance and decide to end their parents' chaotic relationship with an intrigue. But when it turns out that Marlene is pregnant, the kids have to take their parents' fate into their own hands again.

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.

Scenes from cologne Karneval cut together by thousads of amateuer video scenes.

Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and reality become one in the fuzzy reflection on the projection window. A surreal play by Peter Patzak.

A mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation.

Michael Schäffer is among the Westerners whose families are killed in the great tsunami while on holiday at Thailand's Phuket beach. So is Billi Cramer, who is less introvert and hence accepts a Greek international relief force therapist's advice to seek contact with a compatriot in the same position. They got on so well there may be a real relationship in the making, but the grief still weighs heavily.

After her second failed marriage, laundry owner Jule seeks advice from radio presenter Ariane. Her call-in show is running out of listeners, but Jule turns out to be a savior: she has fallen in love with a man eleven years her junior, and now half the town is watching spellbound to see how the relationship develops. When Ariane realizes that Jule's teenage crush is her son, she does everything she can to sabotage the relationship.

Dr. Brunner spends the night with a childhood friend. Instead, he tells his wife he met a friend—who then shows up shortly afterwards, completely unsuspecting. A chaotic comedy of mistaken identity and jealousy.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A young illusionist and magician finds a photo of her partner, who died in the last world war, with an old variety show assistant who makes a living as a street musician. This inspires him to search for the life story of this versatile artist.

Three brothers and their affairs.

Drama about a monk of the Bavarian church.

A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his wealth.

A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.

After their father dissapeared, Paul and Juliette Hagen try now to find him. In Order to do this, they watch his old videotapes to find a clue for his Location

Mia fulfills her role as a picture-perfect wife and mother of two perfectly. Even too perfectly: Florian, a wealthy dentist who is only ever thinking about his next tennis match, takes his wife's commitment all too much for granted. For their spoiled teenage daughter Sarah and little Leon, mom's all-round service is as normal as the luxurious house with pool. Even her mother-in-law Helga, a dreamy old 68-year-old who lives with the family, doesn't lift a finger in the household. At some point, Mia is at 180: no one recognizes her achievements. This changes when she surprises three burglars in the house next door and behaves so professionally that she is encouraged to attend special training for "older applicants" at the police station.

Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungarian nobleman, whose parents were sent to exile. He claims his former properties, now taken by a pig merchant who plays the fool to the villagers' delight. Yet this man has an interesting daughter, and there's also the beautiful gypsy Saffi to consider. And a family hidden treasure to be found.

Schabernack tells the story of Robin, who has to take responsibility for his mentally ill mother at an early age. Together with his little brother Felix, he tries to keep any stress away from her. When the two brothers throw potatoes at their neighbors' windows at night, they are suddenly followed by strangers...

Is Uwe Boll really the worst filmmaker of all time?

Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet. While Ingo and Nadja have an open relationship, he thinks its time that they commit to one another exclusively, and is hoping this weekend will convince her this is a good idea. However, their privacy is interrupted when several guests arrive -- friends of Nadja's brother Knut (Ingo Haeb), a noted political activist, who, unbeknownst to her, has also planned a ski weekend. As the guests await Knut's arrival, they get the unpleasant news that he's been arrested during a demonstration; several propose that they should come to his aid, while the majority decide instead to go skiing as a way to pay tribute to his commitment to the cause.

The film "The Happiness of Others," is engaged in the happy hunting of man in the mental state of happiness. Be happy - and every second of their lives - is the goal of human existence. Welch various ways are there of her, this "feeling of indescribable joy" for a few brief moments by capturing and feel it to be able to show this film. Using a variety of colorful portraits and interviews with successful people, he takes the phenomenon of "Happiness" critical eye.

In a mixture of feature film, music documentary and animated comics, historical facts are retold, analyzed and interpreted in modern settings. Ludwig van Beethoven, played by Lars Eidinger, becomes a contemporary of today's audience. Quick-tempered, irascible, curmudgeonly - that is the common image of Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer with the wild lion's mane. But there is also another Beethoven - young, seductive, spirited and, above all, combative.

Hardly released from prison, the real estate swindler Thomas tries to get rid of his half-brother Roland. Roland has Downs Syndrome and his mother has granted him a lifelong right to live in her house. But Thomas wants to sell it as quickly as possible.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

In dystopian Germany - just a breath away from our current reality - the return of the wolf triggers a mysterious fascination among the citizens. When journalist Leo Bernstein sets out to investigate, he gets drawn into a long-forgotten fairy tale that places him in great danger.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

The caretaker Lana shares a small apartment with her mother who needs care. In order to escape from her difficult everyday life, she observes a young woman in the opposite block of flats through a video camera and builds up an intimate relationship with her in her imagination. When Lana sees her new friend's happiness threatened, she leaves the role of the silent observer and intervenes in the events. Two opposite prefabricated buildings, three women, three generations, a video camera. The Story of an Obsession.

An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

After more than 25 years of happy marriage, Henriette and Werner Wallner have been living apart since a relationship crisis. While Henriette copes well with the separation and flourishes as the self-appointed "manager" of her daughter Elke's flourishing cake store, Werner, who is plagued by heartbreak, does everything he can to win his wife back. However, this is easier said than done, as the handsome and wealthy Saudi Abdul Al Hakim is also courting Henriette by every trick in the book. With this competition, Werner has to work hard to impress "his" Henriette.

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin.

Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.

At the bottom of a lake, the police find a car with a wax corpse in the trunk. It is 15-year-old boarding school student Alex, who has been missing for five years. With the sad certainty that she has been murdered, the case, which should have been closed, takes a completely new turn. Her teacher, the charismatic Hajo Rick, convicted of her murder on the basis of circumstantial evidence and witness statements, could be innocent after all! When the ambitious defence lawyer Sophia Dreyer obtains a retrial, the former investigator finds himself in trouble: Chief Inspector Kai Matzen now has to throw the certainties of the past overboard - and realize that he is more personally involved than he would like. Sophia also suspects that she can't trust anyone. And what if it was Hajo Rick after all? Dreyer and Matzen investigate independently of each other, each in their own interest, and reconstruct Alex's last hours. In the process, they uncover an intrigue.

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli’s mother, Anne’s sister Miriam, who fears Anne’s strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother’s 65th birthday, old secrets surface, triggering Anne’s panic attacks - visions of a shadow beneath the pool. Haunted by past disorientation at a key race, Anne must confront her fears to uncover the truth.

Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.

Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. Using his knowledge as a lawyer he makes the best out of his visit in jail still working, still in a splendid mood and not adapting to any rule. Probably a good way to get the desired public attention, but also a good way to make enemies inside the jail-house. One day before Konrad is to be released his booth is searched and two hundred grams of cocaine are found. That's a serious problem even for a brilliant lawyer like Konrad and even if you're innocent

The Berlin Philharmonic with Kirill Petrenko perform their annual concert for Europe, this time from the baroque magnificence of the Esterházy Palace in Austria. On the programme are works by Haydn, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

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Mädchen tells the story of Ada, a young person who can't afford to get her first period.

Hum lives in a refugee camp near Hamburg. He loves films and finances his visits to the cinema by selling lost properties from cinema visits in the refugee camp. One day he meets Anna and her friend Ida. At a dinner together in the shared flat of the two, they find out that they all share a love of music. Anna and Ida can sing great together and Hum shares the contact with his friends who play in a band. A timid and touching love story develops between Hum and Anna. Both are looking forward to the first performance of the band, in which Anna now sings. But shortly before the performance, Hum is to be deported. Neither his love for Anna and music nor his imagination can save him from the everyday life of a refugee.

Mysterious murders committed by a criminal have kept the public on their toes and the police have mistakenly accused an imposter of the crimes.

A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II.

1964. Germany is divided into two states. On a fateful day, two trucks drive towards each other. One comes from the west and transports industrial goods to Berlin. The other comes from the east and has a far more explosive cargo: four people who can no longer bear the inhumane SED regime and want to escape to freedom in an armored vehicle. The occupants of the trucks are still unaware of each other, but fate is driving them inexorably towards each other. They meet at the Wartha border crossing. The East German border guards order the West German truck drivers Lindner and Bleicher to park their truck across the road to stop the fugitives.