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One night he will fetch the silver from the night sky Jonas loves his fathers magical stories. When Helge dies, Jonas ends up in an orphanage whereupon dreariness and discipline rule his life until a group of circus performers appear in the village.

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.

A world in which no violins play in the sky when two people kiss. Johann Steiner, alias Joe, earns his living as a fall fruit fighter in boxing. For Joe, life is a personal war in which everyone is against him anyway. This changes when he meets Rosa one night during a fight. Although she is also one of the losers, she has a completely different view of things. She is brash and direct in her approach to the world, always on the lookout for the big moment. Attracted by her energy, Joe is always looking to get close to her. The city, which was desolate just a moment ago, becomes an adventure that challenges him.

Laura works in a café in Sunset Plaza and lives in the Saharan Motel on Sunset Boulevard. She falls in love with the young writer Raoul. While Laura is open with her feelings, Raoul cannot seem to show his feelings for her.

A young woman (Alexandra Neldel) begins to work collecting emergency calls when get one that puts she on the trail of a serial murderer who, for some strange reason, she intends to become involved in the case. Furthermore yet another teenager has been kidnapped. Police do not know where to start, but it surely depend to find the victim alive.

A baby is supposed to crown the dreamlike marriage of the divorce attorneys Pia and Uli, but the success of all their efforts – ranging from “sex on a schedule” to artificial insemination – fails to materialize. When Pia learns that Uli has cheated on her during this difficult period, she immediately files for a divorce. But Uli fights stubbornly for the custody of the deep-frozen oocytes which have remained from the artificial insemination.

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.

In a clip-like flashback, the risk of a bank robbery with a homemade wooden machine gun is described.

Documentary about Federico Fellini

The second man in the Nazi regime tried in vain to avoid punishment at the Nuremberg trials. On November 20, 1945, an international military tribunal began the trial of twenty-one leaders of the Third Reich. The tribunal indicted fanatical ideologues and ruthless ministers, shameless propagandists and merciless generals. The main figure in the trial was to be Reich Marshal and second-in-command of the Nazi hierarchy Hermann Göring. The first part of the documentary film shows the preparation of the indictment, the gathering of evidence, and at the same time an examination of Göring's life, his career as a soldier and politician. The whole world was waiting for the start of the trial, which was to culminate in the struggle between justice and evil.

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.

When Henry Ernst toured Romania in 1996, he came across a wedding band who called themselves Fanfare Ciocarlia. This is the story of that meeting, and how Ernst introduced the band to the world.

Plump Jana is a single mother. She's not looking for a man at all, she assures us during speed dating, but she can't take her eyes off a handsome guy. Her friend Grit snatches him from under her nose, but Jana doesn't let up. Daniel is soon on the hook and even moves in with her stepdaughter, but keeps his distance. When Jana tries to force the situation by getting pregnant, she promptly achieves the opposite. But then the children run away.

The young musician Katharina keeps afloat after completing her studies with odd jobs over water. But then her grumpy father Hubert suffers a heart attack - and suddenly Katharina has to take care of the catering company. When she learns that the company is about to go bankrupt, she tries to get the company back on track with wit and creative ideas. Nonetheless, the creditor bank is giving aside adviser Ben Hallbauer. First, Katharina is anything but pleased about this "watchdog".

Seasonal animation in which a hamster, a rabbit and a guinea pig embark on a journey to deliver a Christmas present lost by Santa Claus

The young Romanian Wanda works as a call girl. She has no idea that the reserved neighbor Waller has her constantly in his sights. She also has no idea that Waller is blackmailing her clients with his videotapes and dropping some of the money in her letterbox. One day, Waller and Wanda meet by chance in the hallway. When Waller learns that Wanda has to go procuring for her husband because he is holding her son hostage, he feels called to be her guardian angel and promises her a new, better life. Against her will, he frees her from the milieu and takes her on one last "tour". Together they visit her clients a second time and blackmail them again. Only this time the price is higher, because Waller and Wanda need a lot of money for a better life...

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...

Constantly on the look out for a bit of sex and fun, my girlfriend Annette makes regular forays into the club world on American army bases in Frank- furt and the surrounding area. Annette’s candour, the provocative way this German academic discusses her sexual desires, as well as her penchant for on-camera exhibitionism whenever she happens to find herself beside a black GI, illuminates a side of female sensuality that is rarely portrayed. Annette’s alert and inquisitive erotic behaviour and her own ‘outrageous’ take on life doesn’t merely change our view of the male world at the bar- racks – it turns it upside down completely. (Eva Heldmann)

A group of Germans is on vacation at the beach in Denmark. Very close to their vacation homes are bunkers of the Wehrmacht from the Second World War. At night, the fog comes and with it gruesome figures from beyond the grave that reach for the living. The survivors investigate and come across the story of a group of insubordinates executed on site. Especially piquant: one of the judges at the time was an ancestor of one of the tourists.

Crash Kids - trust no one Mike Camber is a good kid who lives with his uncle in Germany. But things go very bad for him when his buddy Werner offers to take him for a ride in his new car... which is stolen. Werner crashes the car and flees, leaving Mike behind, trapped in the car. Mike is arrested by the police and sent to a juvenile detention center. While imprisoned, Mike meets Miu, a beautiful young woman being held for crimes she won't talk about. Together, they inadvertently discover that the warden is running a drug ring out of the detention center...and now the warden wants them dead because of what they know. Mike and Miu escape, only to learn that the local police, and even Mike's buddy Werner, are involved with drug ring. On the run, with no where to go, Mike turns to the only person he feels he can trust, a mysterious stranger he hardly knows: his father.

When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

"Edna" (a cow) stands in the middle of a field waiting impatiently to be milked. But it forgot to moo at the right moment. Filming is cut and the director goes berserk

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.

Two women fought with uncompromising conviction to change the world in the late 1960s - Inge Viett as a former member of the RAF in Germany, Maria Barhoum as former member of the FAU in Uruguay. In 1999, they met in Cuba, a country that seemed to mirror many of their questions, hopes and fears. The film looks at their real lives and different roads to exile; two utopian visions sought under very different conditions on separate continents. It is a double portrait of two extraordinary women that succeeds in avoiding the twin pitfalls of condemnation and glorification.

An elderly man is murdered in his lavish Italian castle. When his friends and family arrive there for the reading of his will, the murderer has plans to continue his gory killing spree.

In 1929, Dziga Vertov shot the revolutionary film “Donbass Symphony”. Churches are destroyed amid applause, crosses and domes toppled, icons burned. Flags are hoisted. High-voltage pylons instead of crosses, coal mines, steelworks, dynamically assembled. The new faith is directed at the visible and is ingeniously and passionately established with all the means of the new art of film. It is the first Soviet sound film, a masterpiece and a classic. But the Donbass, the much-sung Soviet myth, is a British creation, namely that of the Welshman John Hughes, who arrived in 1870 with over 100 British engineers and a concession from the Tsar, developed the coal deposits and built up the steel industry in the Donetsk Basin.

Little Theresa is the sole heir to a hotel on Usedom after her mother's death. Mother's friend continues to run it. When greedy relatives demand custody, Gabriela searches for Theresa's father. Chef Thomas gets in touch...

Documentary shows the German national handball team on their way to winning the title at the 2007 World Cup in their own country.

The 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s death takes place on April 14th, 2009. This outstanding British-German performance in Handel’s baptistery, the Market Church in Halle, represents the media highlight of the Handel Year.

In a bomb explosion in a parking garage, the architect's wife Anna is buried together with the writer Robert. The two seriously injured people are scarcely recovered from the rubble. When Anna falls in love with the charming Robert during a subsequent stay in a rehab clinic, she has to make a heavy heart decision between him and her family. "The love of my life" is a sensitive love melodrama with Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Hannes Jaenicke and Jan Gregor Kremp.

I followed the everyday lives of Ali, Kais, Ertan and Alban with my camera for over two years. The time was characterized by disappointments, conflicts and also great successes. It all began with a visit to the "Klingelpütz" youth center in the middle of Cologne. Young migrants have been meeting here for many years.

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 90s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. Shaima is sold into marriage with a man 40 years her senior and falls pregnant. Since Shaima's husband still owes half the dowry to her father he brings her back into the constraining patriarchal fold of the family, where she lives with her 5-year-old daughter. This situation doesn't prevent the two from seeing each other, even though this means going against their families' hard rules. In constant fear of revenge on the part of the male members of both families, they struggle to hold on to their love.

Jessika, a precocious teenage girl with loving parents and a good-natured older sister, is the center of a slightly eccentric family. A series of small events disrupts their delicately balanced ecosystem. Jessika's father loses his job and becomes bored and despondent, while Jessika's mother reenters the workforce and becomes empowered. These events act as catalysts for the slow, painful disintegration of the family, with each member committing shocking acts of alienation and self-destruction. Desperately wanting her family but at the same time desiring her adolescent independence, Jessika struggles to find the best way to restore a balance.

Documentary film.

The sudden death of his father will take Macius the enormous responsibility that comes with being king, despite having only nine years. After being introduced as the new king, he will have the power to change the world and the things he does not like. Although his main enemy, General, will try by all means to avoid Macius performing a good job as sovereign, the young king has some good friends to help him in everything he needs. Animated feature, as the German animated series of the same name, is based on the book "King Matt the First" by Janusz Korczak', a famous doctor and teacher of children.

This mountain region that reaches across several countries in Eastern Europe is the home to gold diggers, wizards, cow herders and old Hassids.

Anna Siebert, Sekretärin der Unternehmensberatung "Christian Hoffmann Consulting", ist in ihren Chef verknallt. Aber Christian möchte sich weder an Anna noch an eine andere Dame binden. Alle wissen das, nur Anna will es nicht wahrhaben. Während einer Betriebsfeier kommen sich die beiden im angetrunkenen Zustand doch näher und verbringen eine Nacht zusammen. Annas Glück währt nicht lange, denn ihr Angebeteter kann sich an nichts erinnern ...

After 25 years of working in Germany, Henriette and Werner Wallner are looking forward to a peaceful life in their new house in Malaga. But they soon realize that the sweet dream of the south also has its downsides. The once harmonious couple suddenly get into a big row over every little thing. Werner's flirtation with the attractive neighbor Doris and a Christmas party gone wrong finally bring the barrel to overflowing: Henriette returns to Germany alone...

The siblings Jule and Frank argue again about Jules lack of reference to the family. However, both quickly realize that there are more important things...

Hardly back from America in her home village, the young mountain guide Andrea Stamm is called to a rescue operation. The wife of the contractor Baumberger has an accident. A murder? The whole village mourns, but Andreas's father Robert Stamm can not believe in an accident. The former police officer, who was sent against his will in early retirement, is convinced that Baumberger killed his wife. After initial hesitation, Andrea gives credence to her father's suspicions and begins to investigate. The television movie Steinschlag is an exciting Swiss crime drama based on the novel by Emil Zopfi.

29-year-old Liza can't believe her eyes when she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with a stranger on the couch at home. Completely beside herself, she packs her bags and moves in with her friend Janni. Here she buries herself in her pain and doesn't want to see anyone or anything, and above all she swears off love forever. Janni, who is a little more relaxed than Liza when it comes to love, organizes a potential suitor, which is how Liza meets the shy student Pietro. But even before the first date, another suitor announces his interest: Kid is a policeman, brash, direct and charmingly macho - the complete opposite of Pietro. Suddenly blessed with two prospective lovers, Liza has to make a difficult decision...

Ulli wants to surprise his partner Susanne with a very special gift: a painter to paint a portrait of her. When Markus Marberg arrives at Susanne's house, it turns out that the two of them know each other from school. However, they didn't like each other at all in the past... During the portrait sessions, which Susanne is initially reluctant to attend, they both confess that they were actually in love with each other at school. Suddenly the two are overcome by old feelings...