Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red...
Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair with Jonas estate manager Rudolf, Jacob's...
Willy Wuff receives the news that his brother Rocco, star of a dog show on the vacation island of Fuerteventura, has disappeared without a trace. The brave four-legged friend immediately rushes to the airport and travels to the Canary Islands as a stowaway. There he meets little Andi, who is...
Career woman Dana Weber has been working as editor-in-chief of a glossy magazine for 15 years. Her unshakeable self-confidence suffers its first blow when her snooty boss throws her out the door for reasons of age. Because she has never put any money aside and her ex-lover Martin won't lend her...
Secret service ace Ben risks his life every day. But the job pays badly. Ben can't even pay the lawyer who has to fight for custody of his daughter. Then the agent receives a lucrative offer: for one million marks, he is to crack the security system of armaments magnate Otto Hardenberg...
Funeral director Zombie and his buddy Jürgen fly into Mallorca to transfer a deceased woman to Germany. But the routine undertaking turns into a chase across the island. First, the coffin disappears. Then the body is mistaken for another. Gangsters are after this one, who have hidden something...
After her second failed marriage, laundry owner Jule seeks advice from radio presenter Ariane. Her call-in show is running out of listeners, but Jule turns out to be a savior: she has fallen in love with a man eleven years her junior, and now half the town is watching spellbound to see how the...
After years of waiting for her big break, singer Amanda has finally achieved her goal: she is allowed to host a big TV show. Unfortunately, it's Christmas of all times, so she has no time for her ten-year-old son Joshua, whom she wants to send by courier to his father Bernhard, who lives somewhere...
