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Heinz Schröder discusses his 1930s SPD membership. Gertrud Keen addresses her opposition to politics. Wolfgang Szepansky recalls his imprisonment at Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp.

The baby Jennifer dies in a fire in the nursery. The public prosecutor's office, the media and the residents of the small town all agree: the au pair Christina set the fire. The lawyer and single mother Tamara takes on the defense of the young woman and finds herself in mortal danger...

This movie is about traditional swiss folkmusic has a lot more to offer than only folklore. "UR-Musig" is about the work and life of mountain peasants in the midst of archaic mountain landscapes. It is about traditional swiss architecture and interior decorations, about peoples and their garbs. There are not many dialogs and no narrator. The pictures speak for themselves. The Swiss Prealps are shown in all four seasons and in all thinkable weathers which make every landscape shot more breathtaking than the other.

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering for travellers of every kind while in the background the authorities maintain a flow of triumphal statements, but those months between August and October come to feel like sitting out the death throes. Careful observation of people and their work as the current of history suddenly becomes perceptible.

A tourist falls victim to a bad booking, the nightmare takes its course.

Asylum seeker Dudie lives in a shabby hostel for asylum seekers. Dudie is plagued by bad luck: His girlfriend lets herself be bought as a wife, a couple of beefy men want to get their hands on him and it looks like he won't be getting a job any time soon. One evening, when he is hanging out with a couple of Africans from the home, one of the men gives him an address in Berlin where he can get help. Dudi sets off for Berlin and meets Cuffi Bugudubugu. Cuffi offers him a place to live and gets him a job on a building site. His boss treats him unfairly and his co-workers despise him. But Dudi doesn't let this get him down and all sorts of crazy things happen to him: First he marries a German woman for money, then he slaughters a sheep on the building site and soon gets a job in a kebab shop...

Faith No More - Rock AM Ring MTV Special 1995 Live in Nürburgring, Germany

Three female photojournalists on outside duty. They are supplying interviews with notorious murderers and rapists. On a weekend trip to the idyll of a mountain landscape something strange occurs..

Così fan tutte, comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that premiered in Vienna on January 26, 1790. It is the last of his three operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, the first two being The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). Presented by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre with narration by Sir Peter Ustinov.

Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud.

An explosions expert wants to end the curse by destorying the castle. Before the final explosive is placed he searches the castle for treasures, only to discover the Undead... Part 3 of the Das Buch Der Blutigen Geschichten Trilogy

Berlin public prosecutor Susanne Marquardt wakes up in hospital after an accident. The patient, who is suffering from a tumor, can't remember anything. A short time later, she wants to throw herself onto a train track. Businessman Martin pulls her back at the last second. Coincidence?

The employees in the software department allegedly lack "creative power". At least that's what high-flyer Dr. Heller suspects. The new head of the media company wants to make a name for himself. This includes ignoring specialist Georg Meier's software and preferring cheap US products. Suddenly, Georg, who was once so successful, is left with nothing. What's more, he has fallen head over heels in love with Heller's employee Sylvie. Georg has only one choice: to strike back...

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arnold Schonberg, Kammersinfonie no. 1 E-Major op. 9 (Filmed in Venice, Gran Teatro La Fenice, in February 1995, Chamber Orchestra of Europe). a) Richard Strauss, Elektra (Deborah Polaski, Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovsek, Ferrucio Furlanetto) b) Beethoven, Symphony no 6 F-Major, op. 68, 'Pastorale' (Filmed in the Festspielhaus Salzburg on the occasion of the Easter Festival, April 1995, Berlin Philharmonic). a) Beethoven, Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 C-MINOR, OP. 37 (Maria Joao Pires) b) Bruckner, Symphony no. 9 D-Minor (Filmed in Paris, Cite de la Musique, in August 1995, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra).

A group of seniors decide to have a party in their school on graduation night. Unfortunately an uninvited guest with a pair of scissors crashes the party and it isn’t long before the bodies begin to pile up.

1640. A man attempts to flee from England, torn apart by religious unrest, to France. He is the philosopher and irreverent cynic Thomas Hobbes. But before he can reach the ship that will save him, civil war breaks out. The chaos inspires him to develop new philosophical theories. While writing his futuristic epic, he is assisted by a nobleman who accompanies him on his escape disguised as a servant. The futuristic epic that Hobbes invents is set in the present day. The main characters are a married couple who run a grocery store and try to compete with a supermarket.

Following a man's confession of the murder of a prostitute and the arrest of an innocent man, a Catholic priest finds himself in a profound moral dilemma because he is bound by the seal of confession. In order to help the wrongfully arrested man, the priest takes up the investigation and puts himself in great danger.

When rumors spread about a "child prodigy" among the Mozarts in Salzburg, the archbishop orders an investigation in which the seven-year-old Wolfgang has to demonstrate his talent before a committee of scholars. Soon afterwards, Leopold Mozart and his son are traveling all over Europe to play for patrons and admirers. The new Archbishop of Salzburg, Count Colloredo, is not very enthusiastic about Mozart and dismisses him. Mozart marries Constanze Weber, settles in Vienna and has his first successes, earning him commissions and the goodwill of Josef II. In the last years of his life, his situation worsens; Mozart runs into financial difficulties and health problems, but still works incessantly.

Federal intelligence officer and art expert Jo Tresko is in trouble: he is alleged to have leaked insider information about arms deals to his wife, journalist Katrin. Tresko must find the real "mole" in order to prove his innocence...

Georg has been working as an easy-going waiter in a gourmet restaurant for ages. One evening, the manager of a dance studio leaves her handbag behind, which gives Georg something else to think about. The friendly gentleman rediscovers his old love of boogie-woogie and suddenly rebels against his boss...

A car race ends in disaster for Günni and his Mustang. Ossi" Raoul also has problems: a loan shark is breathing down his neck. Zombie has an idea that can save them both: A used car deal in an old American caravan. So the clique sets off for America.

15 years after his documentary film “Familie Villano kehrt nicht zurück”, Hans Andreas Guttner observes the second and third generation of this once ten-member Italian family.

London art dealer Ben Hoadey has a cardiac arrest while flying his helicopter, just able to land on Geoffrey Arland's Cornish coast estate. Ben takes Dr. Gerome's advice to stop working and stays indefinitely in the sleepy resort town. He's romantically interested in wheelchair-bound Geoffrey's wife June, who nurses both men and the doctor's other patients. Ben's jealous ex Rebecca tries to spoil everything with a dirty deal.

Biologist Karin Aich hopes to reintroduce wolves in Bavaria, making many enemies, including her own neighbors and family, along the way. One of her few supporters is a girl who befriends a feral wolfdog.

Nikolas "Tex" Techner is the frontman of the "legendary" band Slowfuck and tells the story of his life after graduation. It's not just about him and his love life, but also about his best friend David and his very best friend Sven.

We are introduced to seven different people during the course of 20 minutes. What at first appears arbitrary gradually combines to make a whole, specifically integrated for the nineties.

The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the expatriation of singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976.

A short film about a boy experiencing immersion and fascination for war as he looks through the old photo album of his grandfather who was a Nazi soldier during WWII.

Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.

Three children rescue a pit bull from an illegal dog fighting ring.

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty stall. Georg makes a career for himself. And then, he falls in love with a young farm woman. He must decide between love and his job.

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is turned into a reflection on reproduction and reality as well as on destruction which takes place on two levels through Gustav Deutsch’s reworking of the material.

Documentary film.

Director Andreas Voigt interviewed people of different ages and social backgrounds about their experiences after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He paints an important picture of this historic period in German history, filled with radical social and economic change and insecurity. Last Year Titanic was shot from December 1989 through December 1990 — the last months of the GDR and the first months in united Germany.

A dinosaur clone escapes from a scientific laboratory. It swims across the Rhine River to Germany's largest lake—Lake Constance—and begins killing innocent people. All the usual clichés are used: the main scientists (a divorced couple who find each other again during the story!) have been fired before the final experiment; children go swimming at night, even though everyone knows there is something dangerous in the lake; the equipment is completely destroyed because someone shoots at the screen...

Womanizer and proud Manta driver Manni Kowalski wants to be a musician, like his idol Roy Sanders. When Manni's sister is expecting a child, Manni has an accident and his life is in danger. Does this mean the end of his dream of a career in music?

Interview with Jürgen Böttcher about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Prosecutor Thomas Kopper is transferred to Berlin and confronts the cigarette mafia after a warehouse manager is executed. As Kopper pursues justice, his car is bombed and key witnesses die. Facing a possible leak within the prosecutor’s office, and suspecting his new lover or even the justice minister, he fights to expose the syndicate.

the final Nirvana concert

Ascha, a little girl, is standing confused in front of the destroyed czar palace in Russia. None the Czar-Family seems to have survived. An old man has compassion on the little girl, who can remember nothing, not even her name. He decides to take Ascha with him to his home.

A portrait of the former Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.