Heinz Borbet, also known as "Beule" because of his dented car, finds a red safe hidden in the dung heap of an allotment garden: the two thieves Bruno and Fred have stored it there for the time being because they couldn't get the safe open. The safe is almost impossible to crack. Heinz is not the...
A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its...
Catastrophic power outage in Berlin. Poorly maintained grids, greedy power companies and corrupt politicians are to blame. The result is riots and looting. Can senior engineer Anja Radke save the day? But then she comes under suspicion of being involved in the incidents.
For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the up-and-coming engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when she rediscovers her daughter Martina, who she thought was dead, in a wanted ad. Ursula is stunned with joy, but also very scared: the girl is from a...
Crooks Hans Georg Pauler and Ulrich Raffcyk raid a savings bank branch in a Hamburg suburb at eight in the morning and take bank employees Anna Klages and Kirstin Bauer hostage. The police initially play for time; more and more people, including reporters, turn up. Pauler and Raffcyk very quickly...
The police catch Zorro, a small-time crook who is to testify as a key witness in a trial against organized crime. When an assassination attempt is made on him in prison, Zorro is to be given a new identity and the prosecutor decides to let him go into hiding until the trial begins. The experienced...
Art dealer Juliane Wenzel specializes in Asian antiques. But without her husband, who went missing after a boating accident, business is going badly. Now she has to fly to Malacca because of a strange break-in at her Asian branch. She comes across evidence that her husband was involved in illegal...
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
