"Cooking is war" - that is the motto of the ingenious, but self-centered celebrity chef and women's hero Michi Griesebach, who has been in trouble for years with the autocratic restaurant critic Harry Dumont. Now the showdown is due to the opening of his noble restaurant: Dumont, whose column will...
Some call it a men's holiday, the other flee from themselves: Thomas, Jens and Malte have rented a holiday home on a secluded Swedish lake - the complete contrast to life at home. They are only partially satisfied with that for different reasons. One is around 40, the first interim balance revealed...
After the death of his wife, successful author Seefeld has retreated to a lighthouse on the Irish coast. His nervous publisher is waiting in vain for a new bestseller and sends a spy: psychologist Carolin is to find out what Seefeld is up to. She disguises herself as an ornithologist - and the...
Henriette's second assignment as a premium nanny also takes her to an exotic location. The young-at-heart woman in her mid-50s travels to South Africa to look after two bored children on a farm in the wilderness. Anton and Linus are staying with their grandfather Konrad Eckstein for four weeks....
Ten-year-old Rebecca is diagnosed with leukemia. Her illness also puts a strain on her parents' marriage. Ralph has already fallen out with Ellen so hopelessly that he takes refuge in an affair. When Rebecca suffers a serious setback, the desperate mother comes up with a plan: she wants a baby...
"An acting family plays the members of a family about to take their own lives in this heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary. (...) Performed at the stately pace of a slow piece of Bach, Familie is assured, soulful and unnerving." - The Guardian
