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A story about love and death. And those left behind, when nothing will ever be the same again. Unable to share their grief, three people clash out of desperation, even though they all have the same problem: they miss the same person.
Investment advisor Maria-Luise Wagner crashes in a helicopter. St. Peter has fetched her from heaven and reads her the riot act.
Comedian Olaf Schubert on Stage.
Due to alleged West contacts Bettina is arrested in 1984. Jan is a Stasi officer and expert in interrogation. For half a year, the officer and the dissident sit face to face almost daily, and the unbelievable happens: they fall in love with each other. In a few words and gestures and by means of a numerical code, they communicate. '11 means 'you are beautiful', '12 means 'I love you'. Jan and Bettina are always at risk of their love being discovered.
Documentary about the work of director Tom Tykwer, one of the most successful directors in Germany today.
Lena and Wolfgang Breuer's baby is snatched from the baby carriage in a moment of inattention. Lena Breuer had only taken her eyes off her baby for a moment - and then he disappeared. Despite a feverish search, little Jakob was never found. Even after twelve years, the parents' wound has not healed, but Wolfgang Breuer has come to terms with it. Lena, on the other hand, is still searching for her son. After countless futile hopes, one day she manages to track him down. He is living, bright and happy, as the son Tim of single mother Carola Weber. Lena wants to take the boy home immediately and hand the kidnapper Carola over to the police. Wolfgang and the lawyer, however, urge caution. Tim should not be disturbed. Reluctantly, Lena agrees to get to know him carefully, although she doesn't trust Carola's consent.
No doubt: the attractive Japanology student Anna and the aspiring architect Max are destined for each other. But her love is under no auspicious star. When Anna receives a one-year scholarship in Japan, she chooses her career and a strong bond. Max is deeply disappointed and tries to forget Anna. Five years later, the two meet again.
Interview with "Jake" a young transgendered Brit who is undergoing the process of changing from female to male.
Four young and highly ideological Berliners turn into a gonzo Eco Guerrilla. Their goal: to get the people to fly less, and somehow find a way to save the planet. Without any money or help from outside, the quartet depend only on their ingenious inventiveness.
Out of love for her mother, Anna Linke takes the blame for a fatal accident caused by her daughter Lilli and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Lilli makes a career as a model, but suffers from strong feelings of guilt. When Anna is released and moves in with her, Lilli feels overwhelmed by her care, and Anna forgets herself and her silent admirer Max because of all the worry about her child.
It is summer. In order to be able to bear the heat better, two neighbors like to open the window to the courtyard. But while one neighbor loves to loudly listen to the music of the great singer Dalida, the other prefers absolute silence. No wonder that the unequal men quickly get into a fight. But life is full of surprises and what starts out as a fiasco can turn into ease.
Four gangsters are working on a heist in the name of satan when aliens suddenly decide to take over the planet and get in their way.
After many years of happy marriage, Juliane and her husband Max have grown apart and are now close to divorce. Actually, the two still understand each other quite well, but when Max shows up at the graduation party of their son together with his much younger girlfriend, it comes to a scandal. Annoyed and disappointed by her still-husband, Juliane travels to Tuscany, where she meets the German olive grower Nikolaus. From the first moment, it seems to spark huge between the two. But when Max shows up, old feelings come back to life.
It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.
Circus clown Jonathan loses his job and meets the desperate hooker Olga, trapped in an aggressive environment. The pair spend the night together in a hotel room, where they look back melancholically on their lives, as well as on the changes in Europe over the past twenty years. After a confrontation with Olga's pimps, the couple is introduced to the dark side of the new Europe.
An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research.
Experienced judge Lena Kalbach works at the district court in Frankfurt, the capital of Hesse. She is a woman with moral principles - and when she sees them violated, she doesn't take her legal duties too seriously. For example, when the shrewd lawyer Teddy Klein succeeds in getting a client acquitted using shady methods. Outraged, Lena refuses to accept the verdict. As punishment, the rebellious judge is transferred from the district court to a local court. She is immediately transferred to her old hometown of Fulda in eastern Hesse, of all places. For Lena, this is a professional and social relegation, as she left her hometown 30 years ago "because of the cramped conditions". Her grown-up daughter Nike, who works as a public prosecutor at the local court, lives here with her husband Johannes and their two children Clara and Emanuel.
31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny.
A taxi driver is found dead. Since Paula should actually have driven the tour, she feels responsible and investigates the case on her own.
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.
Hansi is elated and looks forward to a happy life when his childhood sweetheart Regina marries him. However, he is unaware that his rival is conspiring to cause a rift in his family.
With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.
More extreme than South Park, Rout City takes us to a similar experience - fasten your seat-belts...
Documentary on a mining town in Montana.
The film tells the story of the East Prussian landscape and its inhabitants. At one time Germans, Poles, Lithuanians and Jews lived here alongside and with one another. After World War II and the expulsion of Germans by Stalin, the Prussian province turned into a Russian enclave. Volker Koepp’s fourth film about the Kaliningrad region is dedicated to the generation, born in the '90s, and familiar with the Soviet Union and East Prussia only from school books. Parents and grandparents who were forcefully resettled to where they are now have never really felt at home. In the meantime they have hopelessly succumbed to unemployment and alcohol. Their children can only rely on themselves. Older siblings look after the younger ones, they play with what lies around, and the girl Ljuda can’t wait to finally turn eighteen, to be able to take her brothers home from the orphanage. The film has much confidence in the children. But what will become of them?
Demolition West, reconstruction Far East: After only eight years of operation, the hypermodern Kaiserstuhl coking plant, which cost DM 1.3 billion, is shut down. 400 Chinese workers dismantle it in the Ruhr area and ship it back home. The last Dortmund cokers have to help the Chinese dismantle their own workplace. For a year and a half, filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken followed the dismantling of a gigantic industrial plant and documented stories along the way: how the cokers in the Ruhr region experience the arrival and working methods of the Chinese and what they feel when they see their pride disappear along with the world's most modern coking plant.
Documentary about Hollywood stars, paparazzis and professional photographers.
Her husband Niklas' loan fraud plunges housewife Laura Vandenberg into disaster. While Niklas is behind bars and the company is being wound up, Laura has to give up her house and move to a dreary high-rise estate with her two children. But with the support of her neighbor Ziggy, Laura soon finds a job in an Italian dive bar. Thanks to her sophisticated cooking skills, which she acquired as a perfectly organized housewife, Laura gets the shop going. Finally, Niklas is released on probation - but then Laura finds out that her husband has not only cheated on the bank.
The sculptor Stephan Balkenhol is a world star on the German art scene. Yet the artist has remained as down-to-earth as his figures themselves. His wooden people fetch top prices at auctions at Christie's, Sothebie's and Co. Despite the trend towards abstraction, Balkenhol rediscovered the figurative for himself. The human being in itself, snatched from the hectic everyday world, reflecting, with an empty gaze. The sensation lies in the ordinary. Against the pathos of monuments and memorials. The film takes a look into the world of Stephan Balkenhol and observes him at work - the portrait of an extraordinary artist.
Florian, Matthias and Enrique drive to school full of anticipation: the exchange students are coming today! A bus full of attractive French girls! That means three weeks of partying, fun and coitus! Unfortunately, their rival Henk crosses their path and runs Florian's VW bus off the road with his jeep. Furious, Florian agrees to a bet with Henk: Whoever bangs more French girls gets the car of the losing team - but the girls Sophie and Caro have other ideas...
As a mother, wife and babysitter, Eva Maria Splitt has an exhausting full-time job. Nevertheless, there is still plenty of time for the stock market news, because for several months Eva Maria participates in the stock market game of a daily newspaper. As she fights the pros in spite of worldwide price falls with their fictitious depot, the enthusiastic son-in-law of the shrewd speculator offers a position in his investment advice. The dream job brings Eva Maria into a serious conflict: her retired man has been looking forward to the European tour with caravans for a long time - although Eva Maria Camping can not stand.
"I can live better in a place whose history I know," says a young Pole in the prologue of this film. He lives in Kopaniec, formerly Seifershau - a village in Lower Silesia. Between the past and the present lay the expulsion of the Germans and the resettlement of the Poles, many of whom were themselves expellees from what is now Ukraine. The village is the focus of the film and the link between the former and present inhabitants. The younger Poles have grown up with the visits of the former German inhabitants. The life stories of the older Poles and Germans tell of war and expulsion, but also of the time when they lived together in the village, directly after the war. The region was called "The Wild West" in Poland at the time. "Silesia's Wild West" asks what home is: a place, a person, a feeling, a memory?
Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - until the little niece India holds cheap plastic jewelry on Nina's finger for an engagement ring and so gets an avalanche rolling, which can not be stopped. - "Marry makes me nervous" is a joke-staged romantic comedy. Suzan Anbeh plays marrying Nina, who has to choose between her fiancé and her childhood sweetheart.
On a summer evening the circuit of the village policeman Krause suddenly went crazy. His doctor immediately prescribed a cure on the Baltic Sea for him. And so Krause and his sisters set off in the legendary "Dübener Ei". In the sanatorium he meets his roommate Rudi - an encounter with far-reaching consequences.
The 10-year-old Elisa skips her dull ballet lessons to visit ice-cream parlor Dolomiti where teenage Holger, the object of her infatuation, works. Here her can imagination go free and she can philosophize about life in a childlike way.
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
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...
After the death of her husband, the attractive Eva takes refuge in her self-imposed loneliness and becomes known as a bitch. After a burglary in her picture frame store, she meets detective inspector Ferdinand Rixen. At the same time, master painter Harry Stockert enters her life. The two men cause chaos in her life. In the end, Eva even agrees to look after the 16-year-old pubescent boy next door, Dennis.
Helen's life is a chain of misfortune: She loses her job, she fails her final exams at university, and then she is dumped by her husband Jan on their wedding day - he moves in with his new girlfriend Jeanette. Her mother Ruth and her friend Olga try to cheer her up - but then Jan has a fatal accident...
An ageing physics professor finds himself in an old people's home against his will after suffering a stroke.
The chef Patrick inherits an old, run-down hotel on the Wolfgangsee and wants to convert it into a music hotel with the help of the employees. While there is fierce intrigue and a few love affairs, the hotel gradually takes shape.
Full of anticipation, ten-year-old Emma goes on vacation to her grandma Dolly in the country. Once there, however, the girl learns that old Klipperbusch has died - and his money-hungry nephew Albert is already in the process of converting the inherited estate for profit. And anything he can't use for this is thrown out without further ado. At least Emma manages to save Klipperbusch's beloved mare Mississippi from the slaughterhouse at the last minute: she persuades her grandmother to buy the horse from Albert. Emma is now a proud horse owner. She is all the more surprised when Albert turns up at her door one day and desperately wants Mississippi back. It's clear to Emma and her friends that this guy can't be up to no good...
Based on 'Susanne Fröhlich' 's bestselling diet book, this comedy focuses on Carla Hahn, hosting a radio show as "Christin, the sexiest voice of Berlin". However, her listeners don't know that she is full-figured. When Tom, a charming admirer, persistently calls her on the show, she wants to meet him. As he thinks she looks a slim top model, Carla desperately tries to loose weight until their first date...
Exclusive Interivew with 'The Cannibal of Rotenburg': Armin Meiwes.
HF781 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl
Little Berthold Wettelsteck is an avid comic book reader and is particularly fond of the comic book hero Nick Knatterton's stories. Until the story suddenly becomes reality and he suddenly finds himself in it.
The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom.
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.
It's midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. With mounting ecstasy, their transparent bodies begin to glow, but just before climax a dark shadow looms over them...
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.