A young married couple, professional, intelligent and without inhibitions. Peter, an economist, Helga, a secretary at a financial broker. When Helga's boss is offered old tankers, the clever couple decides to get involved in the business. The plan is bound to fail, because knowledge and the courage...
Patriarch and entrepreneur August Manzl is terminally ill. As his four grown-up children are all spoiled and sluggish, he comes up with a rather cynical idea to determine the future leader of the families empire: whoever of his children shows the courage and willpower to end his suffering within...
In Rimini (2022) and Sparta (2022), Ulrich Seidl followed the lives of two brothers, Richie and Ewald, respectively. The former is a crooner long past his prime yet still beloved by hordes of late-middle-aged female fans who can also buy his sexual attention; the latter is a technician living in...
Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing...
Three actors portray scenes from the life of Sterling Hayden, with a particular focus on his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Inspired by Hayden’s memoir “Wanderer.”
Stefan is a well respected doctor. Together with his fiancée Miriam, he visits his father in South Africa on the occasion of his birthday. Miriam meets a former friend of Stefan's, Jo . Jo is a bishop who is committed to helping the slum dwellers. As the two get closer, Miriam falls in love.
Private detective Josef Matula is with his usual companion, the dog Dr. med. Renz, on the way to Italy, when his rickety minibus engine fails. During his subsequent unplanned stay in a small mountain village he discovers the body of a mountaineer while hiking. He begins to investigate the death and...
Anna and Kurt spent their youth in Berlin, then the capital of the Greater German Reich. In the summer of 1938, they met on board the "Strength through Joy" cruise ship "Ozeana" during a trip to Norway. Kurt and Hanna fell in love and almost got married later, but the war broke them up. While Anna...
