After his wife confesses to having sexual fantasies about another man, a revered doctor becomes intrigued by a secret sex 'ball' attended by some of the city’s most prominent. Disguising himself in a cloak and mask, he sneaks in, despite warnings that attending could destroy his life.
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the land of the economic miracle with high hopes.
As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses...
Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages to confuse a couple of letters resulting in a mess of things.
After the death of her father, Maria travels to Berlin to visit her elder sister Helena, a dancer, who she hasn't seen for years. However, when she arrives in Berlin she finds out that Helena has quit dancing and now works as a croupier in an illegal gambling club. As the two sisters' relationship...
Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois family, must pretend that he is also a Jew....
A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a fated car accident, where emails bring them closer to each other.
As soon as Walter (Ingo Naujoks) meets Anne (NADESHDA BRENNICKE) he is totally overwhelmed. He leaves his wife and daughter immediately and marries his new dream girl. When he was watching a film one day in which Anne plays a roll, he begins to doubt his ideal image of her and he becomes obsessed...
On the day Hitler assumes power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family come together for dinner. Most of them—like many Germans at the time—do not take the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family talks her down. But when Michael indicates he’s...
Nine-year-old Primel’s single mother must leave town, so her apartment building’s seven tenants take turns babysitting. Primel’s boundless energy sparks chaos, but also warms hearts. In caring for her, the neighbors transform from strangers into a close-knit community.
