Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...
German judge Elke Seeberg's orderly world turns upside-down when a terrorist bomb explodes in a Berlin bus and the federal police come bursting through her door: Allegedly her teenage daughter played a part in the attack and is now on the run. What follows is a Kafkaesque nightmare of illegal...
Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret?
After her mother's death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in between Cleo's rehearsals at the theatre and her relationally disturbed housemate Elisa, she finds...
The 37-year-old Munich survivor and rickshaw driver Basti struck by lightning than one day unexpectedly the 17-year-old Dina from Bitterfeld turns up on his doorstep and quite credible claims to be his daughter. Moreover, they presented him her baby Paul and asks Basti, fearing further turmoil, not...
It is Christmas eve but Bastian has not bought a Christmas tree yet. Furthermore he has to prepare a Christmas gala with Anke Engelke and he soon gets in trouble trying to do everything at the last second.
The beautiful Emma is not only a notorious kleptomaniac, but also walking proof of the chaos theory: although she usually only has good things in mind, her life is a trail of destruction. When she is no longer even wanted in prison, Franz Berger has to deal with Emma. In no time at all, the life of...
A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency worded precisely in images that make over room...
Paul is a gifted boy and his parents Gesine and Uwe are proud of him. One day Gesine meets a former neighbor: Kathrin, who, like Gesine, gave birth to a child seven years ago, but lost the baby in a tragic house fire shortly afterwards. Gesine finds Kathrin's behavior strange. And indeed, a short...
Teacher Gerrit Suicker's body is found murdered in Amsterdam's Red Light District. A prostitute lies to the police but says she saw the murder on the radio during a call-in program.
At the end of the 1960s, in the midst of political and social turbulence between revolt and reaction, journalist and filmmaker Oswalt Kolle fights for his ideas of liberal sex education with great commitment and sometimes missionary zeal. But Kolle has to fight against fierce resistance: The German...
