When the animal keeper Birgit gifts her daughter Sarah a parrot, the joy is great. While Sarah is teased at school because of her speech impediment, the parrot provides her with a sense of security. But when the parrot suddenly begins to constantly spout Nazi slogans, it not only causes problems...
In 1820, Tyrolean surveyor Josef Naus set off for the Zugspitze region to map the area. "Gipfelsturm" is about the resistance he has to overcome before he can successfully climb the Zugspitze and how he finds the love of his life.
Four stories dealing with the dialectics of enlightenment, with the randomness of love, birth and death. Aleks participates in an experiment facing civil war in former Yugoslavia. Sarah tries to escape loneliness by investigating a murder. Bastian has to deal with his father's decision to die. Anna...
Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the precocious "femme fatale" who admired as well as bullied Jonna, but experienced sexual assault as a young girl. As Nore struggles to reclaim the narrative for...
Hiltrud Janssen soon achieves what only a few people in her life are able to do: she celebrates her 100th birthday. It's just a shame that she fell out with her younger sister Betty many years ago. Back then, Betty worked as a housekeeper for the influential CDU politician Heinrich Verhoeven and...
Trapped on a mountain in a terrible snowstorm in the dead of night, one of the climbers reports his tentmate missing. Now they have to embark on a dangerous search.
Matthias and Nelly live in a village in the Bavarian Alpine foothills. The couple could not be more different. When Matthias discovers a bog body in the lake, everything changes.
Charlie Chaplin is still one of the most famous figures in film history, both in front of and behind the camera. However, one aspect of Chaplin's artistic work is little known: his work as a film composer. Dominik Wessely shows this side of the brilliant all-round talent in original visual and...
Married for years, Sven has recently become distant in his relationship. Thomas knows the reason: his husband is having an affair. After all the recent sacrifices he has made for him, the betrayal is too great for Thomas. He wants to punish Sven as much as he cheats him, and he has a terrible...
Madi and Lucia grow up in an Argentinian-German household. While their father fulfills his role as breadwinner, their mother Dolores is the cliché of a matriarch. But then Dolores has to go into hospital and the father is not only overwhelmed with the two young girls. Operation Adolescence begins.
