The body of a young Mexican woman is found in the Main Valley, south of Würzburg. Inspector Peter Haller and his colleague Birgit Sacher are involved in solving the crime. Haller is not yet forty and was born in Würzburg. He has a quiet love for his city, for its clarity and familiarity. He will...
The movie is set in a world where the human desire for order and rules has outlasted everything else. This world follows different social rules and norms, and people's purpose in life is to stand in line. This is simply accepted and even seen as sensible and important. Cal, however, begins to...
"Are you crazy?" "Nope, Down syndrome." Jakob knows his problem and can live well with it. His older brother Julian, however, he does not care about the Mongo. Even after the death of her mother Anna, does not think Julian cares about his younger brother. It's the other way around: Jacob helps him...
Successful radio presenter Charlotte Becker is a Christmas grouch. To escape the hateful hustle and bustle, she plans a vacation in the sunny south. When her train stops due to a breakdown on the open track, she makes her own way through the deep provinces with Fritz Mauser, a sales representative...
In Franconia, an ice-cold mortician manipulates his shy colleague into murder. To cover up the crime, they exploit a loophole in the Bavarian legal code.
A Knight Templar returns home from the Crusades in the Promised Land and has lost his faith in God due to his experiences fighting the infidels. When he passes a small village, a young woman is to be burned as a witch there at the same time. The crusader does not think twice, frees the mysterious...
Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backward Paul and his buddy, publican Karin, go...
