The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite...
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff tells her friend Levin Schücking about her recently completed story Die Judenbuche and begins by reading from the manuscript. The protagonist of the actual story is Friedrich Mergel, whose father Hermann Mergel has a fatal accident under a beech tree on a stormy night...
Even today it is considered one of the greatest military feats ever. In 218 BC, a Carthaginian army of ninety thousand men and three dozen elephants set out to cross the Alps to challenge the might of Rome. The exact route chosen by Hannibal, its charismatic commander, has been a matter of dispute...
Günter Zint and companions answer questions from director Axel Engstfeld about the life and work of Hamburg's exceptional photographer. He takes the cameras and his camera into the depths of the Reeperbahn, to ordinary and extraordinary people of the era, to borderline experiences of the rule of...
Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959), a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and portrayed their landscapes and native peoples in color for the first time, thus fulfilling a laudable purpose; but also laying the foundations for an...
Mrs. Ahrens is preparing for her trip to the Maldives by trying out her XXL diving suit when she collides with the gay couple living on the same floor for an improvised Xmas Eve gathering starring a special guest, the famed singer Boris.
