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Monodrama Theater, also known as Mono-Drama Theatre, was a late night television series which aired on the DuMont Television Network weekdays at 11pm ET from May 1952 to December 1953.

Stefanie Ritter is actually quite happy with her life. When the charming pilot Kai Mertens turns up one day, Stefanie feels that tingling in her stomach again for the first time. For her birthday, he surprises her with a dream vacation in Mexico. When she wakes up the next morning in her apartment after an enchanting evening in Mexico, the dream vacation turns into a nightmare: Kai has disappeared without a trace. Stefanie is arrested on suspicion of murder and ends up in a Mexican women's prison. Rough customs prevail among the inmates. It is only after almost a year in custody that public defender Paul Linke, a lawyer from Saxony who has fallen on hard times, appears and makes it clear to Stefanie that her hopes of an acquittal are illusory. There is only one way to get out of this prison alive: Stefanie must escape.

Tessa – Leben für die Liebe is a German television series.

In August 1968, troops from the Warsaw Pact countries occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing an end to Prime Minister Dubcek's reform policies. Many people in the West protested against the crushing of the attempt to create "socialism with a human face." However, the world public paid little attention to the fact that at the same time, a handful of Russians were demonstrating in Moscow against the actions of their own government. The film reconstructs the trial of the Russian "dissidents."

Julia Wilkins teaches physical education and German at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Munich-Haidhausen. For a woman in public service, she is very unconventional; not only is she an avid skydiver, but she also loves mountain biking and inline skating. She chose to become a teacher against her father’s wishes, which is why the two of them no longer speak to each other. But Julia has found a surrogate family.

Boxer-turned-nurse Mark Tempel is threatened with being kicked out of the apartment where he lives with his daughter and disabled wife. The day the mafia violently threatens his family, Tempel returns to his former life as a boxer mixed up in petty crime.

A story about life and everyday problems of a few families from East Germany.

Familie Meier is a German television series.

Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck is a German television series.

Der Sonne entgegen is a German television series.

Nineteen-year-old high school graduate Sarah Maienstedt celebrates her departure from the convent school with exuberance. But her happiness is clouded by the fact that her parents' marriage is on the brink of collapse. Sarah secretly falls in love with the handsome Swede Erik Wylander, unaware that he is also her mother Inge's lover. Unaware that they share a lover, mother and daughter travel to Stockholm. Inge wants to finally decide on the future of her marriage, and Sarah can hardly wait to see Erik again. When Inge unsuspectingly asks Erik to take care of Sarah, and Erik confesses his love for her to her mother, disaster strikes.

Der Forellenhof is a German television series.

Julia – Wege zum Glück is a German television series.

German miniseries

The four-part miniseries tells the story of a farm boy who becomes involved in a murder case between two feuding noble families in England at the time of the French Revolution.

In the fall of 1956, 21-year-old Herbert Broschat boards an immigrant ship in Bremerhaven bound for Toronto. He wants to leave Germany—this devastated and torn-apart country—and head for an unspoiled land where “freedom is still to be found.” He befriends Erich Domski, a coal miner from Wattenscheid in the Ruhr region. But even in the Canadian wilderness, the two friends are haunted by their German past.

In South America, a bitter battle is raging over diamonds.

16-year-old Hans Kolekta is unemployed and unable to find an apprenticeship. He shares this fate with many other young people in the Ruhr region.