In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that...
Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at any price, fighting with all means, intrigue, deceit and blackmail. After all, the all-important game takes place in the afternoon and 40,000 people...
A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey together ends in death.
Erik Pütz is afraid to make an important confession to his wife Linda: he has been unemployed for two years. What saved him was the regular social welfare check for his former lodger. This gave rise to a bold plan: in addition to his new lodger Harald Klein, Erik invents 35 other needy housemates...
After a small sample of fabric, the eternal student and occasional dealer Paul ends up in the emergency room. Enraged, father Willi takes his offspring back to his sleepy Westphalian home, where foxes and rabbits still say goodnight to each other. He locks him up in the dog kennel on his farm and...
