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The authors Johannes Unger and Sascha Adamek follow the traces of Ulrike Meinhof's life. In the documentary, contemporary witnesses who knew Ulrike Meinhof directly and experienced her path from different perspectives have their say: publisher Klaus Wagenbach, Spiegel editor-in-chief Stefan Aust, Meinhof friends Peggy Parnass and Erika Runge, RAF members Monika Berberich and Manfred Grashof, friends and neighbors from her youth and journalist Bettina Röhl, Ulrike Meinhof's daughter.

Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitute but nevertheless much sought-after by her clients. And the third girl, Yvonne, also brings in a large turn-out. So, Hotte’s proceeds are more than sufficient to buy expensive accessoires and to boost his reputation with the other pimps. But when Yvonne quits her job and Jenny starts to work for another pimp, Hotte’s rise comes to a sudden end

A young woman has inherited her late mother's night kiosk. She tries to overcome her grief and the planned break-up with her boyfriend by having friends and customers tell her stories about happiness, which she records on a video camera. As the tapes pile up, she realizes that the other happiness seekers are also fleeing fate and their loneliness.

Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a little, including pretty faces. Frank Knöpfel constantly flirts with life with his beguiling bright blue eyes. He buys a complete stranger an expensive coat in a designer boutique just because he feels like it. He disguises himself as a businessman from Oslo, a Mafia boss, a stock exchange specialist and an estate agent, whatever it takes to bring in the cash. He is the type of person who enjoys looking in the mirror, and delights in what he sees there. A flirtation with a customer in a boutique leads to Frank’s undoing.

Flight Number 884 is a film about the wishes and desires of Muslim immigrants. Every year thousands of bodies of Turkish immigrants are flown back from Europe to small villages - villages they had left long ago. The film follows the dead body of a Muslim on its last journey from Vienna to a graveyard in Turkey.

The pedophile offender Mr. K. is prevented from jail through the professional statement of the psychologist Alexandra Pausch. Believing she has made the right decision, she closes her eyes towards the potential danger of her dangerous and charismatic patient. But as the horror steps into her own life, she realizes the careless appraisal of her diagnosis.

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The documentary traces the history of the university. Graduates of the school have their say and excerpts of student films from five decades are presented.

After escaping from youth-prison during a fire-alarm, young MAREK hitch-hikes into an unknown future. Suddenly there's a new chance: He 'gets' a car, a passport, a ticket to Australia and switches into a new identity. After the car breaks down, he is stuck at a filling station close to a very small village in former East Germany where he meets Margot. There are many problems to solve if he wants to continue his trip - maybe with his new love.

Portrait of German actress Angela Winkler.

A film about four young women in Pyongyang who share a passion for football. The documentary follows their journey from national team players to retirement, highlighting their friendship and the impact of football on their lives.

Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Several vignettes, lasting approximately 10 to 15 minutes each, are connected by one of the town’s public bus routes, outside of which two men booze the night away while waiting for the bus to make its rounds.

After a stroke of fate, star lawyer Mark Degen completely turns his life around. The workaholic, who only took on lucrative cases, becomes a courageous lawyer with social commitment. When his daughter, public prosecutor Ricarda, loses her first case against a corrupt hospital doctor in which the key witness and evidence have obviously been tampered with, Mark suddenly finds himself in a new line of work: as a "detective against his will", he embarks on a search for clues to help Ricarda. The investigation not only brings movement to the deadlocked criminal case, but also to the difficult relationship between father and daughter.

The year is 1944, Atze and Samuel occasionally operate on the black market, but mostly keep quiet and wait for the Americans to come. When the last German submarine, the U-900, is sent on a final mission, Atze foolishly messes with the general of this mission and has to go undercover. Together with his friend Samuel and the actress Maria, who disguises herself as a man for this purpose, he therefore smuggles himself onto the U-900 and pretends to be the captain. Since he has no idea about seafaring and gives increasingly strange orders, the crew soon becomes suspicious.

You can't ignore the two rising stars of the Swiss comedy scene! DivertiMentos' second program mixes pointed lyrics, convincing facial expressions, and soothing music to create a true comedy spectacle. The entire program was recorded at the Bärenmatte Center in Suhr (AG).

A woman dies in the morning in a mysterious accident on an empty highway. Her son survives seriously injured. Since the mother had taken out a large life insurance policy shortly beforehand, suicide is suspected. Insurance employee Marlies Heidorn investigates the matter. She soon comes dangerously close to another vehicle owner...

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.

Trilogy is a live album video by The Cure. It documents The Trilogy Concerts, in which the three albums, Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers were played live in their entirety one after the other each night. Trilogy was recorded on two consecutive nights, 11–12 November 2002, at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin.

A soldier runs amok in a school. Military police and SEK take aim at the heavily armed man. Suddenly he is shot dead, but none of the snipers fired the final shot. Inspector Bischof is tasked with finding out who killed the soldier. The soldier was stationed in the very barracks that is under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralf Bischof, Kathrin's husband. An officer from the Military Counter-Intelligence Service is assigned to assist her in the investigation. Kathrin bites into the case. She finds out that the dead soldier was taking part in a series of scientific experiments testing methods to prevent anxiety. This research project is being led by her sister Ariane, a renowned psychiatrist. Kathrin's investigation puts her in extreme danger.

Adam loves Nina. He thinks they have the perfect relationship - until he accidentally finds out that his girlfriend has faked an orgasm or two. His world is collapsing and he seeks advice from his best friends Ulf, Stefan and Karl. Karl can't understand all the excitement because it's certain that no bunny has hopped in front of him yet. Nevertheless, he supports his friends on the hunt for the real orgasm...

Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...

Single Claudia is a supermarket cashier. Although she meets the most amazing guys every day at work, who is interested in the blonde woman at the checkout? Martin is also single and would like to choose "pop star" as his job title. By chance, Claudia and Martin meet again after a gig, having lost track of each other a long time ago. Claudia has always secretly adored Martin...

Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism.

Werner Blücher is what you'd call a real thoroughbred crook: not a second seems to go by without the cunning rascal coming up with an idea for the next coup. It's just too bad that Blücher's criminal career hasn't been too successful so far - his lawyer has just got him out of prison once again. And although his arch-enemy, the fanatical chief inspector Schmitz-Kesselhoff, is doing everything she can together with her dotty assistant Müller Zwo to get Blücher out of circulation once and for all, the gallant crook is already planning the next thing.

Laurens works for the German Minister of Finance and is an extremely correct and conscientious person. He knows his way around numbers, but less so with women. One day he meets Gina, a single young woman. She is sitting alone at one of the tables and Laurens forces himself to sit with her. Hesitantly, a first conversation develops between them. This is the beginning of a seemingly impossible love story that not only throws Laurens' life into turmoil. Laurens is secretary to the German finance minister. Over breakfast, he approaches the attractive Gina and invites her to accompany him to the G8 summit. There, Gina realizes that she doesn't fit into the world of politicians and business bosses. She is the only one to say what she thinks - and causes quite a stir. Laurens has to choose between his career and the love of his life.

Tom Kostner is a macho man. He cheats on his two girlfriends, drives a flashy Cobra and works as an editor for a car magazine. He lives in a chic penthouse with his roommate, the bartender Ecki . But it is more appearances than reality: he is soon fired from the magazine. His girlfriend Manu catches him with his other girlfriend and leaves him too. He applies to some other magazines, but has no success there. When his Cobra is towed because he is behind on the installments, he grasps at his last straw: he applies to a women's magazine. However, since they prefer to hire women and homosexual men, he plays the gay man. At first he makes a few mistakes, but ultimately manages to convince the other employees.

Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest

A documentary about Tama, a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan.

Documentary filmmaker Jörg Adolph spent 70 days with The Notwist while they where recording their masterpiece "Neon Golden". The film shows the intimate situation of working in the studio, where the music is composed, recorded, listened to, redone, discussed, abandoned and redone again.

A man decides to sell his grandparents' house when he finds out that the death of his parents seems to be connected to a legend about a murdered child.

Violet is looking forward to spending a nice long weekend house-sitting at a friend's mansion. She is not expecting to be stalked by a psycho killer. Or is she? There are a few clichés that can't be missed in any good horror film: The sexy victim, the slow killer and the question "Hello, anyone there?"

The talented young lawyer Corinna Jakobs is given a great opportunity to make her professional breakthrough: she is to represent the well-known Hamburg fishing fleet owner Petersen in court, who is repeatedly denounced in the press as an environmental sinner by an eco-activist. But when the lawyer falls in love with the rough-and-tumble environmentalist, she finds herself in a difficult conflict of conscience.

Tells the story of a group of gangsters hiding out in a vacation-bungalow who get more than they bargained for.

A young, enigmatic client hires defense attorney Ariane Leonhardt, confessing she intends to kill her lover. Reluctantly, Ariane uses careful questioning to unravel layers of deception and prevent the crime, even as the client’s manipulations begin to infiltrate Ariane’s own life.

The new guy of Lisas mother lost his job, sits at home and drinks. As long as her mother doesn't throw him out, she will have to do it herself.

Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him.

The movie deals with a guy who gets to join the German Bundeswehr involuntarily because a colleague loses his denial papers in order to get the chance to get down on his girlfriend. When entering the Bundeswehr he acts like a giant idiot and of course gets in one room with some of the biggest losers around. The loser turns out to be a hero and leads his loser-colleagues to win a contest with the local US army squad.

Smart financial advisor Katrin is desperately looking for a way to escape Christmas in her family's lap. And that seems to be coming up soon. In the all-rounder Max, with whom she shares a pronounced aversion to the festival of love, and his dog Kurt, she finds the right companions to implement a sophisticated master plan. Unfortunately, not everything goes according to plan.

Sandra is new to the neighbourhood and she's shy. The girls in her class don't make it easy for her either. She doesn't fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa at all. But when she meets 14-year-old Mike who lives in the house across the street, all her problems seem to be forgotten. She falls head over heels in love with him. However Sandra doesn't know that Nadja, too, has had a crush on Mike for some time and Nadja doesn't miss any opportunity to score points with her feminine charms - Nevertheless, Sandra and Mike are becoming closer. But their young love is soon put to the test. One day, they observe Mike's mother with a stranger. Mike is outraged. He can't understand that only a year after his sister died, his family will now be completely destroyed. But Sandra is staggered as well. How can she explain to Mike that the stranger is her father? Afraid of losing Mike, she tries everything to keep the matter secret. But by doing so, she becomes entangled in contradictions. ...

The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving, neither by day nor by night, neither with gift nor without gift." If she solves it, she had proved her cleverness, the king promises not only to release her father from prison, but also to marry her...

Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in his job or financial matters, but clearly has more fun in life. One day, when he persuades his brother to visit their mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, the siblings set off in their car, picking up a punkette who is traveling as a hitchhiker. It is an enlightening journey for all of them through the northern German wasteland.

Vienna in 1931. Fanny, the daughter of a Vienna police trainer, meets the Chinese police officer Ma Yunlong, who is completing specialist training in Vienna. The shy acquaintance quickly turns into great love. Against the will of her parents, Fanny travels to China on her 18th birthday to marry Yunlong. At his side, Fanny begins a new life in the Middle Kingdom, which is characterized by deprivation and painful turns due to the multiple political upheavals.

A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for her work with street children in Rio. The film recounts how a woman turned her back on a wealthy lifestyle, driven into action by the execution of 8 streetkids by military police in 1993. In subsequent years Yvonne's struggle to better the lives of endangered and abandoned children has led her to found "Projeto Uere" ("Children of Light") a radical project committed to protection and education of kids who live in the streets and slums of Rio which has brought her into conflict with Brazil's wealthy elite.

Archduke Johann falls in love with Anna Plochl, the postmaster's daughter. Johann and his royal arranged bride both decline a dynastic alliance advised by minister Metternich in favor of their loves.

Documentary about the Austrian director Fred Zinnemann.

Between Berlin and Buenos Aires. between love, life and family.

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.

Swing, Sing and Think is a chronicle of the young French pianist David Fray's recording sessions of three of Bach's famous clavier concertos. Each chapter features a few minutes of Fray at home in Paris explicating his interpretation of the score at his piano, followed by rehearsal and recording sessions he conducts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, one of the finest chamber orchestras in Europe.

Katja Steinfurth tries hard to reconcile her love relationship with her married boss and her obligations as a single mother - not always with success. When Tibor, the favorite horse of her son Lukas, behaves strangely aggressive after an accident and is to be euthanized, the horse whisperer Nils Peterson seems to be the last salvation. So Katja sets off with Lukas and Tibor on the way to the "horse island". And in the seclusion of the small picturesque island, the young woman gradually realizes that something has to change in her life.