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- Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?
- At a family gathering on a boat, engineer Markus vaguely remembers what his mother did to him when he was a child. Soon, Markus and his wife Monika have to face an unthinkable truth and violation, that a mother would seem incapable of.
- Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?
- In a dying village, a lonely boy tries to enter the spring of his life and becomes a victim of inhuman conditions due to the coldness of his environment.
- He was an icon, flamboyant pianist, egomaniac, showman par excellence: Liberace - the King of Bling, led his life in the fast lanes between Hollywood, Las Vegas and Palm Springs. In the middle of the Californian desert, where Hollywood stars celebrated wild parties around private pools, he lived a paradoxical life of spectacle and secrecy, illusion and reality. His success is closely linked to the growing popularity of television and the American TV era. Scores of American housewives adored the musician who could play everything from jazz to classic. His public life was as paradoxical as his performances were glamorous. No other artist cultivated such an openly camp persona on America's biggest stages while at the same time vehemently refusing to come out as gay, a facade Liberace kept up until his death. He was one of the first celebrities to die of complications from the AIDS virus, although his death was officially attributed to "heart failure" in order to preserve the memory of the one-man Disneyland. We examine his stellar career and its abrupt end in the context of America's social and media history. Liberace's story reflects the American dream - but also the country's bigotry and the divisions of a rapidly growing society.
- Jennifer Weist, frontwoman of the Jennifer Rostock rock band and cultural journalist Axel Brüggemann lead an erotic journey through the history of pleasure by exploring how sex and pornography evolved since the 50s.
- Die Serie spielt in einem kleinen, wirtschaftlich unauffälligen Retourencenter in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Dort leitet Susanne Krombholz (Stefanie Stappenbeck) das Unternehmen für den "guten Zweck" - die Gewinne wandern nämlich in die Taschen der Kolleginnen und Kollegen. Erzeugt werden sie, indem die Retouren eben nicht wie vorgeschrieben geschreddert, sondern unter der Ladentheke verkauft werden. Da ist es Susanne gar nicht recht, als plötzlich der Turbokapitalist Oliver Drittenpreiß (Wanja Mues) ein Blick auf das Center wirft. Oliver umarmt den Fortschritt und möchte Global Player sein, denkt entsprechend effizient und groß. Ein neues, großes Retourencenter für zurückgeschickte Waren ist genau das Richtige, nachdem der Online-Handel während der Corona-Pandemie durch die Decke gegangen ist. Für Susanne und Co. steht fest: Olivers Traum vom modernen und transparenten Mega-Center muss um jeden Preis verhindert werden.
- Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.
- In the film "Fleckenbühl" several main protagonists are accompanied on their difficult and long way to get off drugs. Situatively, the film observes their development with successes and setbacks and with the uncertainty whether their path will be positive in the end. The protagonists will come from different social backgrounds, have different (addiction) biographies, be of different ages and different lengths of time on the farm. Through the residents we will get to know the Fleckenbühl farm and its history since its foundation in 1984 and understand the structures that determine the lives of the people here.
- After the suicide of his terminally ill father, Erik inherits his apartment in Gelsenkirchen. In a state of loneliness and confusion he decides to take in roommates: Carla and Nicoleta. Together they develop a critical theory of society, which gradually turns out to be a castle in the air, as does the supposed friendship between the three.
- A shy outsider has been in love for months with the bakery saleswoman from whom he buys his rolls every morning, but doesn't dare to approach her. One morning a photo of her hangs in the shop with a text underneath: "Today is your last day at work!" He must speak to her - today or never.
- 1905: Heinrich Vogeler is celebrated as the star of German Jugendstil. But self-doubt increasingly torments him. In search of new inspirations he moves to the First World War and returns as a changed man.
- For over 10 years, star violinist David Garrett has been thrilling a worldwide audience with his crossover program of rock/pop songs and classical music.
- In occupied post-war Germany, the ex-paratrooper and former SS man Gerhard Mertins rises to become a powerful arms dealer. He has many contacts in the Middle East and with old Nazi greats, a man who therefore becomes interesting for secret services. He starts right after the Second World War as a simple taxi entrepreneur in Bremerhaven, but soon he does best business with the German secret service BND and also the American CIA. Until today many files about Mertins are secret. Because against German laws, against international law, Mertins moved weapons into war zones with the backing and sometimes on behalf of the German secret service BND. For almost two years, the team around author Rainer Kahrs did research for the film. For the first time, the BND granted a camera team access to files on Gerhard Mertins, the first BND arms dealer. For the first time, Mertins' wife and daughter also speak in front of the camera.
- Three years after the end of the Second World War, Europe is once again on an historic threshold. Will the continent finally find lasting peace? Will people's hopes for a better future be fulfilled? The allies of yesterday have become the enemies of today. An Iron Curtain separates East and West, communism and capitalism. It looks as if the curtain will remain down for a long time. The first half of 1948 brings decisive turning points: a Communist coup in Prague, the consolidation of Stalin's power in Eastern Europe, in Yugoslavia the break between Tito and Stalin, and a crisis in Berlin that becomes a test of power and takes the world to the brink of a new great war. The Jews of Europe find a new home in Israel. The spring of 48 will continue to have an effect for decades to come. Contemporary witnesses such as the Frenchman Marc Ferro, the German Günter Lamprecht or the Russian Maja Turowskaja tell of their experiences in crisis-ridden post-war France, of the hope for a democratic awakening in Czechoslovakia, of Stalinism in Moscow. There is a phase of euphoria in socialist Yugoslavia and the fear of a new war among the Berliners, who have just cleared away the rubble. Texts by contemporary authors such as Anna Seghers and Simone de Beauvoir lead us into this period of uncertainty and search for orientation. Rarely shown archive material shows a year in which decisive decisions were made for the future of the continent.
- John Neumeier considers this ballet, a plea for peace using the music of Bach's Mass in B minor, as a sort of sum total of his creative efforts during the 50 years of his tenure as the chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet.
- In 2016 Sky broadcast live from the Bayreuth Festival "The Ring of the Nibelung" by Richard Wagner. The musical direction was provided by Marek Janowski, one of the leading Wagner conductors of our time.
- Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years. It transforms language into unique music. Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has inspired generations of musicians. Her analog synthesizer sounds made the gloomy poet a pioneer of techno. After drastic confrontations with her record company, she disappeared from the musical scene and re-invented herself in the quiet solitude of Norway. Director Claus Withopf accompanied Anne Clark for nearly a decade, portraying a socially critical as well as overwhelming exceptional artist - a musical rebel,
- The film refers to people who have fled their home countries and shows the consequences of this flight.
- The new production of the opera "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner opened the Bayreuth Festival in July 2018.
- Italy is one of the most attractive and popular tourist destinations in Europe. And yet there are still undiscovered corners - especially away from the mainland: Flora and fauna make each of the over 200 islands unique. Some of the most beautiful and varied are explored in the three-part series "Islands of Italy". We travel from the Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, to the Liparian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, exploring the geographical and ecological characteristics of each island.
- "Erfundene Wahrheit - Die Relotius-Affäre" is a documentary on sky Deutschland.
- An elderly couple fights for dignity while balancing on the edge of the existence of their former lives.
- More by chance than by plan, Sarah and Tobias open up their long-standing, experienced relationship and decide to go for it: each of us dating five people. If their dates end disastrously, we know we know that we are perfect for each other. If they are fun, we know: we know there's room for improvement and we'll break up. What starts as a casual experiment soon turns into a competition in which both have to ask themselves: Do I even want this relationship anymore?
- Werner Nekes is a leading contemporary experimental film maker. His work includes numerous avant-garde films that received many awards and distinctions. Closely related to his cinematographic work is his very substantial cinematographic collection, spanning about 40,000 objects ranging from the early days of cinema to phenomena of visual perception - a collection that is truly unique in the world. This film shows a cross-section of Nekes' films and reveals some particularly intriguing treasures from his collection. In conversations with Alexander Kluge, Nekes reveals his profound knowledge of cinematography and his lifelong and abiding interest in exploring the concept of perception. The film also looks at his close collaboration with Helge Schneider and Christoph Schlingensief.
- Richard Wagner is the most controversial composer of all time. The documentary examines the private man, his love affairs, his handling of gold and money and his political career.
- Almost every day, actors and actresses experience a drama of whose extent we have no idea. We experience them in their roles when they play seducers, heroes, villains or failures. We know very little about the people behind the roles, unless we receive a distorted image from the tabloid media. Actors* live a profession that exposes them in a special way to the public. Their profession is both a curse and a blessing, exposing personal complexes, touching vanities and fomenting narcissism.
- In the middle of the Schaalsee runs the bureaucratically precisely defined "fluid border" between the FRG and GDR. One night a storm shifts a buoy of the border line. While the border and measuring troops from East and West meticulously try to restore order, two land surveyors throw their prejudices overboard and tear down the border between them for a short time.
- A young woman with a backpacker rucksack, smeared make-up and tears in her eyes stands trembling in front of a house early in the morning. What happened? The film tells a story from the previous night. Rape is charged with normative notions and images of what it is and how it should be done. The circumstances are often much more diffuse.
- Book hunters are the secret heroes of history. In times of greatest barbarism they tried to save what could be saved. Without the book hunters we would know far less about our own history. While libraries burned, church or secular rulers systematically destroyed unpopular literature, they collected and copied manuscripts. Only what the dedicated book hunters - mostly learned masters or cultured monks - got their hands on, what they tracked down or considered worthy, had a chance of being handed down. Thus the "Germania" of Tacitus reached the Middle Ages in only one single copy. Without Tacitus, we would know nothing of the unwritten Germania, would have no idea of the successful Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. And yet even the book hunters could not prevent an infinite amount of ancient knowledge being lost. Floor heating, window glass, aquaculture, aqueducts, architecture, medicine, mathematics.
- On 25 July the Bayreuth Festival opened with a new production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". The Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan was the musical director.
- Around 1870/71 and in the weeks of the Paris Commune, photographers documented the battlefields with their plate cameras.
- In Bremens ältestem Stadtteil liegt der Schnoor, "eine der schönsten Straßen der Welt". Wie durch ein Wunder wurde das ehemalige Handwerkerviertel im Zweiten Weltkrieg kaum zerstört.
- The film is divided into the topics "love", "politics", "money" and "music". Each aspect is traced from Wagner's time to the present day. The focus on "money", for example, not only deals with Wagner's financial situation, but also with his current market value as a film composer, advertising medium and tourist driver, for example in Bayreuth. In the "Love" section, Wagner's wives are introduced, but also asked what still stimulates Wagnerians erotically in his music today. The focus is always on Wagner's greatest work "The Ring of the Nibelung". His plot shows parallels to Wagner's life. The reception of the trilogy is also followed: From the premiere performance to the abuse by the National Socialists to the role Wagner's work plays in our time. The most important Wagner interpreters and scholars, as well as music historians and politicians (including Marek Janowski, Christian Thielemann, Dr. Sven Friedrich, Albert Dohmen, Stefan Vinke, Catherine Foster, among others) will have their say. The film shows that Wagner's work anticipated every change in Germany, from revolution to monarchy, dictatorship and democracy.
- Father Jens Petzold did not sing at the cradle that he would one day lead a Catholic monastery in northern Iraq. He comes from an atheistic social democratic family from Berlin Neukölln. Nevertheless, questions of faith have interested him since childhood. His search for spiritual meaning and his fascination with Far Eastern spirituality eventually led him to a remote monastery in Syria. In the monastery Mar Musa al Habaschi around the charismatic Father Paolo Dall'Oglio he was baptized in the Easter Vigil 1996.
- For over 10 years, star violinist David Garrett has been thrilling a worldwide audience with his crossover program of rock/pop songs and classical music.