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Manila: Peter, the terminally ill son of the successful architect Klaus Timberg, falls in love with Diana. However, he does not know that his father has hired the prostitute to make his son's last days as exciting as possible. Diana has also fallen in love with Peter. When Peter accidentally finds a receipt for her love services at his father's house, he disowns her in his anger and disappointment. Only when it is already too late for him, he realizes how much Diana really loved him.

"Highway 40 West" (1980/81) is the first of a series of documentaries by Hartmut Bitomsky (born 1942 in Bremen) which brought him international fame. Each of these films is dedicated to both, a specific and title-giving object and its historical-critical analysis. Such as in "Highway 40 West": For a time span of 169 minutes, the film shows Bitomsky’s emblematic US-road trip with a rented car on the eponymous road number 40, crossing the country from East to West. From early travel routes of the "Native Americans" to the trails of early colonizers, this street is loaded with American history - and with the present ruins of the American dream, which Bitomsky indulgingly captures on film. He himself appears as actor/author, conducting innumerable interviews, shooting the landscape, the diners and hotels - and his sonorous narrator’s voice reviews what is seen, and tries to understand and make it understandable.

A group of punks is observed and interviewed on a square in Hamburg-Ottensen. In close-ups, characteristic details of the outward appearance of punks and their provocative behavior are presented. The reactions of passengers and the owners of surrounding stores are recorded; some act emphatically tolerant and understanding, others reject them...

Psychological and sociological portrait of Camillo Castiglioni, the king of inflation, who became one of Europe's richest men in the twenties through speculation and war profiteering.

After an assassination attempt, a mannequin ends up by chance with a castle owner who, due to an allergy, is confined to a room in the tower, where she collects commercials from around the world via video. Mysterious murders and eerie figures make it difficult for the young woman to distinguish between reality and dreams.

Film scholar Helmut Färber discusses Griffith' A CORNER IN WHEAT.

The film accompanies Linda and Gallier in their everyday lives and gives them space for self-representation: at school, at the family table, at the disco, or in conversations with friends. The racism of the majority society, the pressure to assimilate, and the counterarguments of the two young people and their community members are omnipresent. The parents and grandparents are survivors. Linda summarizes that experiences of persecution and oppression have shaped the strong sense of belonging among the Sinti.

Elser, employee and bearer of secrets in a public institute, throws everything away and disappears, so he is suspected of treason. But he is on a trip to Finland, where he falls in love with Rosa and tries to start a new life with her.

For some children and teenagers, a visit to McDonald's is one of their favorite treats. Why young people prefer fast food restaurants and products, what advertising methods fast food restaurants use to attract their young customers, how fast food meals are made—all these questions are addressed in the first part of the film. The second, shorter part deals with nutritional problems caused by fast food. The harmful effects of a diet high in phosphates are illustrated using the example of a hyperactive child.

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning.

A 14-year-old girl investigates the causes of the plane crash that killed her father in the Brazilian jungle and becomes convinced that he was murdered by white people who needed a pretext for massacring the Indians.

Walking a thematic tightrope, Norbert Meissner here puts media technology to the test. The universal event of pentecost is the moment of the highest realization: technologically, the moment of all possibilities, i.e. white noise and snow. The text spoken by a TV announcer tries to create a hierarchy, but it is constantly disturbed, subverted, and displaced by electronic image distortions and fade-ins and fade-outs of multilingual versions of the text and of signal terms in various alphabets. A work to be read with differentiation on truth, sublimity, and the media.

Susanne and Dieter are 20 years old. They have just got a Baby. Family life could start now, but Dieter has to join the army. The film accompanies him the first six weeks, shows doubts, insights and hardly acceptable conditions. A little realistic view into the National People's Army shortly before the fall of the wall.

Former prisoner Frank Gormann is given a suitcase full of hundred-mark bills, which also contains a pistol and a photo of a man who is to be killed. Coincidence or an offer? Frank's "luck" seems perfect when he meets the beautiful Julia, with whom he wants to spend the money. But the coincidences soon turn out to be a calculated crime.

Various interwoven stories about women of different ages and life situations, each dealing with encounters, relationships, and expectations of love and life paths. The focus is on female characters who, each in their own way, are at a crossroads in their lives: whether through a surprising acquaintance, a disturbing announcement, a new romance, or an encounter with a mysterious gentleman who challenges old certainties.

The story of Henry Carsten (Alan Longmuir from Bay City Rollers), his life as a race car driver and his relationship with Maxe (Olivia Pascal). Also features Rollers members Stuart Wood and Duncan Faure in the supporting cast. The Rollers provide the soundtrack to the film with 10 new songs.

Documentation by Vostell of the environment 'E.d.H.R. Electronic dé-collage Happening Room' from 1968, exhibited in 1982 at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the exhibition "Art Becomes Material". The environment consisted of six televisions equipped with additional electric motors that move objects across the floor covered with broken glass. Slides of earlier happenings and works by Vostell were projected onto the walls. According to Vostell, the room contained "Multi-layered mixed layers, superimpositions and events, mobile collages and dé-collages".

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung"

King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and someone in a cartoon has stolen the Eiffel Tower, which now stands over an abyss in the American West.

Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining fatherless. The film finally confronts Else's only half-sister from German nobility with the mulatto sister-in-law from Africa.

Peter, medical student and son of old materials dealer Richard Müller, wants to get engaged to the daughter of the director of a local construction company. The profession of his father has so far only vaguely hinted out of shame. And so his future in-laws think Richard is working in ministry. When he learns about it, he is initially offended. After all, he lives his profession with body and soul. But then Richard takes advantage of the misunderstanding and pays the bride parents a visit.

A man sings about his baldhead.

In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest. When they join the funeral procession afterwards, the stork has just returned from Africa and joins her husband on the nest. So it comes as Grandad Schmal had predicted. The following flashback shows how it all began.

A new fun show in which Frank Zander and Isabel Varell show just how versatile they are. In 45 short sketches, the pair travel through time - from paradise to Neanderthal times to ancient Egypt, from the Romans to James Bond. They also poke fun at "immortal" lovers: Adam and Eve, Caesar and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine.

In this quirky romantic comedy, Evelyn, a charming yet independent woman, finds herself entangled in a series of absurd relationships with eccentric men. As she navigates the chaos of romantic misunderstandings and social expectations, Evelyn seeks a meaningful connection, learning that true love is not about pleasing others, but finding herself. Directed by Loriot, the film combines sharp social satire with his signature dry humor, offering a witty exploration of love, gender roles, and the absurdities of romance.

Unfinished early documentary by Ulrich Seidl about a foto shooting with Sonja Kirchberger and Peter Baumann at the Tunisian seaside.

The young officer Count Yorck von Wartenburg - he bears one of the most famous names of the German past - awaits his execution as a participant in the conspiracy of July 20, 1944. Von Wartenburg, together with his comrades, suffers infinitely long days of terrible torture, disrespect and humiliation as a death candidate. In a dream, he experiences his escape and the real continuation of his fight against fascist barbarism, for which he must detach himself from his class and is involved in the anti-Hitler front by communists and the Soviet army.

With and about her friend and painter Bettina von Arnim. Filmed in her house in southern France.

A legendary stolen Inca emerald comes into the possession of a man’s daughter after he fled to the jungles of South America following a hit-and-run accident. The valuable gem causes chaos in a small German town, a situation exacerbated by a friend who was also involved in the traffic accident and turns out to be a jewel thief.

2084 – mankind is about to go for the stars. Humans with XY-chromosomes live in individual cells having no contact with each other. They are considered to be extremely dangerous for society. They are kept alive because some still believe, that they might harbour some original creativity. To stay alive they have to produce a yearly "survival-permit-panorama" (SPP) that gets fed into the public media net

Bodenproben focuses on the Prinz-Albrecht site, the former headquarters of the Gestapo in Berlin, which was used as a rubble dump until the provisional Topography of Terror memorial was erected in the fall of 1986.

Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed to a little girl who is the subject of a lawsuit.

1. As an unsuspecting wanderer between Maikammer and Hambach / Germany makes history 2. Reassurance 3. Aborigines 4. Moons

In 1930, workers and their children founded a club on Helmholtzplatz in Berlin. A store was rented and converted, giving the children a home where they could hang out during the day and pursue their interests. As young pioneers, they also made posters and banners there to support their fathers' strike.

A little girl runs after a lost ball and ends up in a large, old cemetery. In this strange, strange environment of light and silence, she meets a man, the gravedigger. The man takes her into his hut, an enchanted world where dozens of self-carved puppets give it an eerie life. There he tells her things about sin, purity and preservation that she does not understand and yet to which she reacts with a strange fascination. As he talks and plays with his puppets, the man gets closer and closer to her until his hands gently wrap around her neck...