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Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

This time, the undercover journalist Wallraff has taken on the subject of 'cheap production for large discounters' with a hidden camera. Under a different identity, he was hired by a large bakery in the Rhineland that supplied cheap rolls for Lidl.

Danger and Kaspar are graffiti artists who have each been ejected from their respective crews. They decide to work on a project in honor of one of their deceased brethren.

Frank is a filmmaker who brings a group of actresses to a cabin in the woods to make a film. While there they stumble upon a book, a book that belongs to the Book Keeper. The book is in no way an ordinary book, as it brings demons to earth, and now Frank and his actresses are the only ones to stop them..

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.

A group of women, hired to assist with an impromptu concert, spend the evening at an ancient German castle. Unbeknownst to them, they've chosen the worst night on Earth to visit, as every sixty-six years, the long-dead bodies of Templar Knights buried there have the chance to wake and feast upon the living...

A zombie virus has decimated the population of the earth. Only a small group is still fighting for survival.

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, which received its first performance in Dresden in 1911. Leading the ensemble was the radiant-voiced and profoundly thoughtful Marschallin of Anne Schwanewilms.

The first DVD of the band, chronologically collects all the clips the band made between 1991 and 2002. A better illustration for the musical growth that Motorpsycho went through is difficult to find. On the second DVD you can find a recording of a concert that the Norwegians gave in 2002 in Paradiso. That Motorpsycho has a special bond with the Netherlands is evident from the documentary Norwegian Heroes that was broadcast by VPRO in 2000. This sympathetic film can be found in its entirety in this package. Hair Cuts is a great asset to the true Psychonaut, as the Motorpsycho fans like to call themselves.

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.

"Schlesisches Tor" in Kreuzberg is one of the most lively places in Berlin. A small film team stays in the area for 24 hours - from Friday 6am to Saturday 6am - to talk to people passing by. The result is a document on film about love and friendship, work and children, loneliness and history in the year 2007.

Volker Koepp returns to the Brandenburg Marches, where many of his films were made. Uckermark describes the coexistence of the various eras using the stories and lives of the local people. They are farmers and returning noblemen, men and women hoping that short-term job-creation schemes will lead to meaningful work, a theatre director whom the Uckermark reminds of the past.

Management consultant Max Tanner is an airman as he stands in the book. This painful experience must make his new friend Anna, as she caught him just on her birthday with another. In her anger, Anna cursed him with the words "From now on you are air!" And indeed, from that moment Max is invisible to all the world. For Max, who was used to everything revolving around him, a situation as unpleasant as it was instructive. After the first shock, however, he does everything possible to become visible again and to recapture Anna's heart.

Becker's documentary presents the arguments of the new-age practice of "bio-energetic medicine." Presented as a medical documentary, The Living Matrix, promotes healing through energy reading and manipulation. Director Greg Becker presents his arguments through anecdotal patient stories, and interviews with parapsychology professionals.

Pauline is severely physically disabled and confined to a wheelchair. Since she started school, Hanna has been able to work as an actress again, but her role as a mother dominates her life. After Michael suffers a slipped disc, the Kollers move out of their townhouse and into a handicapped-accessible apartment. Hanna maintains contact with similarly affected mothers and occasionally has Veronica Grossmann and her spastic twins as guests. The neighbors feel disturbed by the sight of the disabled children and gather complaints to get rid of the Kollers.

Three friends of single mother Karin secretly place a personal ad for her. The man she meets in her late thirties is younger than her and outrageously good-looking. At first she has no idea that Andreas is a convict who will soon be released from prison and is looking for a temporary place to stay.

In a small hut on an island in the wintry lake landscape around Berlin lies a young man, Johann, wrapped up in a sleeping bag and blankets.

Franziska Naumann happily greets her allegedly new neighbor Dr. Gottfried Naumann. She is very surprised when he wants to move into the same apartment in which just the movers carry their furniture. Even Gottfried is surprised - Franziska has not only the same name as he, but apparently also rented the same apartment. Without compromising, the quarreled estate agents Beate and Werner Wüstholtz has rented the apartment twice. There is only one solution: until the circumstances are clarified, the unequal couple must live together in the apartment. The fight burns.

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

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent scenic work from Europe and the U.S. developed on the principles of bio-mechanics.

Lawyer Sarah Werner represents the attractive David, who earns his living as a member of the male striptease group "Die Traumprinzen". When one of the show's visitors is murdered, David comes under suspicion of murder.

Tobias B's life is not crowned with success. A short man with no work and no friends and no smile on his face. One evening he comes across Betty B. The huge chanteuse of the Band: Betty B. & the The's.

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.

Director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS.

A brown bear in the wild causes a sensation as a border crosser between Tyrol and Bavaria. Because Master Petz snatches many a lamb, repeatedly plunders beehives and prefers to visit garden inns to feast on the food and drink (including a pint) of the escaped guests, the alarmed people demand that the beast be shot down. After some initial bickering, this unpopular decision is also accepted at a political level, with Bavarians and Tyroleans alike hoping that the execution will be carried out by their neighbor.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. A Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2007 production, in coproduction with Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Directed for HDTV and video by Don Kent.

A group of people awake on a desolate mountain. Wandering through the forest, they try to decipher how they arrived there. Soon, they realize that there is more to this story than they know. As the sun goes down, the dead begin to rise and the group's worst nightmares come true.

Lena, 17, is restless and desperate. In a few weeks she will finish school, but she doesn't have any definite plans for her future. She wants to make music, that's the only thing she knows. Will she be able to resist the pressure that comes from the people around her - parents, teachers, and society? Will she make her way?

Documentary deals with the murder of 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl in July 2002 by three young people.

A man drunkenly tells his insane story in a pub.

Documentary about a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot, Franz von Werra, the only German soldier of the Second World War who managed to escape from captivity as a prisoner of war and return to Germany.

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.

1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world and her mother is too busy for philosophy so she converses to God. One day at school she is horrified to learn that man will soon set foot on the moon. In her eyes it's not possible that God would allow anyone to get so close to Heaven. Her clowning father agrees and, unable to cope with modern-day progress, hits the bottle. Caro is preparing for her first holy communion to become 'a bride of God' but before that she seals a pact with her father to overcome her fear of swimming in exchange, he will not touch a drop of alcohol.