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- In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
- Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
- An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
- The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
- While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
- To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.
- German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
- In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
- 1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
- In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
- As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
- After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.
- The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
- After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
- "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.
- A look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the system. The Hoffmans gather often with family and friends for warm dinner parties rich with derisive political banter, live classical music, and spirited discussions, holding out for a better future. But even as Richard has high hopes and strict demands for studious Christian, he hides a passionate double life and shocking secrets that come back to haunt him. Against this tense climate of fear and mistrust, with the secret police lurking ominously in the background, choices are made and actions taken that have devastating repercussions.
- This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his will, would like to join the expanding conflict on the side of his comrades in Hamburg. As the revolution becomes threatened by the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats and the splintering of the working class, he nevertheless tries unremittingly to unite the workers. The reactionaries grow ever stronger and the neediness of ordinary people multiplies. In this dire situation, the Hamburg police commissioner would like to block the unloading of a ship full of provisions that were sent from Petrograd as a message of solidarity. But Thälmann prevails in unloading it. The high point and conclusion of the first part of the Thälmann films is established at the Hamburg Uprising in October 1923.
- Dad is left home with the kids when their Mom is away for the weekend, but when Dad has to work overtime at the Chocolate Factory, mayhem ensues when the kids get into a feud with the nasty boys next door!
- The second part of the Ernst Thälmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thälmann's murder in 1944. It shows Thälmann's battle to achieve a united front with all German workers against the National Socialists, his arrest following Hitler's seizure of power and the eleven years of his incarceration, in which he is unwavering in his beliefs until his death. An attempt to free him on the part of his comrades ends disastrously, and a corrupt offer of freedom from Göring himself receives Thälmann's refusal. He must also witness how his brave fellow Socialist Aenne Jansen in the women's prison across from his tragically loses her life during a bombing raid. The second primary character of the film is Aenne's husband Fiete Jansen, who already proved his loyalty to Thälmann's side as a friend and fighter in the first part. As the commander of the Thälmann Battalion, he fights in Spain on the side of the people and later in the ranks of the Red Army toward a speedy end to the war against Fascism.
- Nina has been the good wife of the conservative mayor Robert von der Heyden for twelve years. During this happy, but also hardship, time she counted on her husband keeping his political and private promise not to run for a fourth term. The capable lawyer finally wants to step out of Robert's shadow and return to her profession. Now she has to find out from television that her godly husband is again running as a top candidate against all agreements. Nina's disappointment is intensified when she catches her husband red-handed with his French PR advisor Jacqueline. She actually wants to break all bridges behind her, but her husband's outrageous grin on the election posters enrags her. Her old party friend Philipp awakens the ambition of the once active local politician who has been a member of the organic movement for many years. Why shouldn't she challenge the confident Robert herself? For the press, the political power struggle between the married couple is a sensation. Her teenage daughter Alice alone finds it extremely embarrassing that the quarreling parents are also fighting in public. By uncovering an environmental scandal in which her husband is not entirely uninvolved, Nina can score politically. Between projections and mud battles, their married life is in danger of falling by the wayside. Is it worth it?
- At the end of the 20th century in Europe, the social climate is on a downward slide and unemployment is rife. The situation affects the lives of a couple, Anton and Leni, who live together in an unnamed city.
- This film is about an elder woman Helga Landowsky who wants to buy a jug in an antiques shop in Goerlitz but the shop assistant does not want to sell it for money. Jakub Lato would only sell the jug for a good story - her story.
- A border region village between the Czech Republic and Germany tells the love story of Tommy (19) from a socially disadvantaged background and Julia (18) from a wealthy family.
- Robert, a recently widowed engineer from Cologne, decides to change his life. He invests all he has in a new business in Southeast Germany - a network of coin operated telescopes, hoping to profit from the breathtaking vistas of the Saxon "Switzerland" area of the East. Once in that region, Robert meets Christiane, who uncanningly resembles his deceased wife. Christiane is also at a crossroads. She has a secret plan to recover something of great value lost after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Robert, who is increasingly attracted to Christiane, turns out to be just the person to help her carry out her plan. Though they both believe they are constructing a good, lasting relationship, they start arguing frequently. They realize they have to overcome their past traumas in order to create the relationship they want. Is this a case of "lost and found" in a newly found land?
- It's Almuth's birthday: Rita's faithful cleaning lady promptly brings her husband Werner and a wonderful cake to celebrate. While blowing out the candles, Almuth makes a wish, which of course she doesn't say, otherwise it won't come true. So she doesn't mention that she's thinking about Klaus, her friend from the old days... Rita can't understand Almuth's stubborn "I can manage on my own", she can't live without Werner. When her beloved husband suddenly dies, it's up to Almuth to stand by Rita during this time - even if it's not easy for her. And Rita, on the other hand, used to modest circumstances, is annoyed by Almuth's throwaway mentality. Almuth's desire for peace is then torpedoed again when Almuth's daughter Kathrin moves in with her with her kith and kin. With Kathrin's "time out from marriage", the tense atmosphere heats up, and Almuth loses his nerve. When Rita then gets involved, there's a violent crash between the women. Rita quits. Once and for all. Almuth stays behind unhappily. Will the two women manage to overcome their opposing worlds once more and save their extraordinary friendship?
- Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in ruins of an old church.
- GG 19 is a cinematic journey through Germany within 19 articles. Á la short cuts, in 19 stories, the fundamental rights of the Federal Republic of Germany become an emotional experience. Not didactic or even edifying, but always experience-oriented, the spectator is sent to an exciting tour through Germany with humorous, dramatic, also absurd, but unfailingly with stories that are obliged to the acting characters. An experiment, 1 film with 19 stages, an adventure for every participant and a totally new experience with the own home country, with Germany - a tour d'Allemagne.
- June 17th, 1953: Frida's 8th birthday, was supposed to be a celebration, but instead tanks are rolling through the streets of East Berlin. Frida and her mother are waiting for the birthday guests, but they won't come today. As her father fails to return from the demonstration, Frida's mother slowly begins to lose control. Outside, the protests, which have turned into a political uprising, are bloodily crushed. The relationship between mother and child, the natural laws of responsibility, and the protection of the weak by the strong seems no longer to be in force.
- Shortly before Christmas, a mismatched German couple is driving not-completely-voluntarily through Poland in a ratty old car. Square lawyer-to-be Max Lowenberg investigates a formerly-German property; constantly-gabbling Anna just wants her car to be stolen. Both are surprised by Polish hosts and Santa Clauses. They become closer to their Polish neighbors--and each other--with help from hearty hospitality and lots of vodka.
- The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil (Werner Stocker) falls in love with the prostitute Lissy (Dana Vávrová). Through her he meets some criminals whom he can help thanks to his gymnastic skills. But on his rise in the criminal hierarchy, Lissy might fall by the wayside.
- A docudrama made on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, which interlinks the most significant moments in his life and career with the memories of his colleagues and religious companions.
- A German couple start a silent campaign against Hitler's dictatorial reign after the loss of their only son at the front
- Fate of a working-class family on the threshold of the 20th century. After her husband died at work, Martha Kurda was left alone with two children. Thirteen-year-old Ludwig becomes the breadwinner of the family.
- When an elderly woman tries to shoot down his client, a homeless shoplifter, without any apparent reason, lawyer Joachim Vernau tries to find out the background of this case.
- Frank Schröder returns to his birthplace Tauchritz, which is located at the three-country point of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, to resolve the financial malaise in which the place is located.
- As a seamstress' illegitimate daughter, young Catherine Simon's future isn't rosy. But in the single-minded woman slumber unsuspected talents. At 17 she makes her debut as an actress at the Berlin Lessing Theatre, with unexpected success. The world is at her feet and dreams start to jell as she meets prominent artist Max Kruse at a premiere party. The two become a pair, but the newly-divorced sculptor isn't yet ready to remarry, not even when Käthe is expecting his child. They spend two happy years together without a marriage certificate, but her illegitimate cohabitation does not correspond to the morals of the fine Berlin society. Then destiny knocks again when she starts making rag dolls for her daughters.
- This documentary is the result of one year shooting in the European city Görlitz-Zgorzelec. Since World War 2 the city is divided in two parts: West of the river Neiße came to Germany, east of to Poland. This is not one of those nice designed image movies normally being used for tourist business to demonstrate an inner European harmony - which maybe does not exist in real life. Here the streets are not brushed, the normal citizens are not out-of-focus the cameras, and no actors from outer cities came to make a pseudo documentary! 'Willkommen Witamy' is a fascinating documentary, providing the real life here in the hearth of Europa, still being divided by the Schengen border, but most fascinating, charming and worth living.
- West German reporter Jörg Buschka travels to Eastern Germany to learn more about its people and their lives after 30 years after the German Reunification, meeting Toni Krahl, Inka Bause, Kerstin Gosewisch, Heiko Lietz and Simone Solga.
- Mark serves a long-term sentence. The only thing that shines a light on his blunt routine in prison is the prospect of seeing his girlfriend Jessica again. When Mark is granted a day's leave, his older cellmate "Boxer" asks him to deliver his last savings to his estranged daughter. Mark accepts. This favour, however, is about to push him back into a world he thought he had left behind. Step by step the brief stopover in freedom reveals a portrait of a convict falling to pieces over himself.