When Germany is hit by a drought, the Ruhr area is threatened with the collapse of drinking water. Meteorologist Martina Fechner is appointed head of the crisis team, but has to recognize that her colleagues see the crisis as an opportunity for their own career. When even highly toxic germs are...
Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand
1.52009HD
Autumn 1961: The GDR regime secures the border between the workers' and peasants' state and the class enemy in the West. To ensure this, the leadership also orders the use of firearms against those fleeing the republic. In Böseckendorf, close to the border, people are not prepared to accept this...
London art dealer Ben Hoadey has a cardiac arrest while flying his helicopter, just able to land on Geoffrey Arland's Cornish coast estate. Ben takes Dr. Gerome's advice to stop working and stays indefinitely in the sleepy resort town. He's romantically interested in wheelchair-bound Geoffrey's...
In a German concentration camp in occupied Poland, a group of prisoners prepared a symbolic Olympic Games. The German Nazis discovered their plans and agree to face them in competitions to prove their racial superiority.
First young lawyer Anna loses a shoe heel - then an important client to her oily colleague. "Why does everything always go wrong?", she complains to chat partner Jan. At home, the lonely soul also has to listen to the loud bedtime stories of her perky flatmate Sarah. But eventually Anna finds...
On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Over tea, with the sound of planes landing at nearby Schönefeld airport, they talk about how she came to tell the story of Medea the immigrant,...
In her mid-fifties , Elisabeth Hallstein found her marriage in tatters overnight : her husband Klaus left her with the family fortune. Elisabeth, spoiled by luxury , has money problems for the first time . After a moment of shock, she comes up with an idea: she simply rents out a few rooms in...
Amrum was their destiny: Christian Römer wants to come to terms with himself on the island. He is due to be ordained a priest in a few weeks. Katja is also looking for a break from everyday life and from her unfaithful boyfriend Thomas. Naturally, the young people get closer than they would like...
Young Johanna dares to make a fresh start: she buys a run-down house in a small village on the former German-German border and starts her job in the local daycare center. With her charming manner, she quickly dispels the mistrust of most of the long-established residents. But some of the residents...
Krestin lives a fairly wealthy and carefree life. She is going to marry her boyfriend Gregor, has a good job in a shop and rich parents. But a dispute with Gregor shows his true violent personality, beginning a nightmare for her.
At Eckle's grocery store in Freiburg, everything has been the same for decades. An ideal workplace for sales clerk Susanne, who doesn't like change. But then the old Eckle dies and his son Christian wants to turn the old store into a delicatessen. No wonder he keeps clashing with Susanne. Neither...
