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- Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- Cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan in Mecklenburg. Their relationship is loveless. Time seems to stand still - until 46-year-old engineer Klaus turns up.
- The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
- When the strong friendship between a precocious eleven year old girl and a middle-aged family man is attacked for being unhealthy and immoral, the two run away together, but their care-free days are numbered.
- Three friends, Alex, Niklas and Tim are making the most of the first day of the summer vacation. While searching for the perfect place for their tree-house, they come across a deserted building in the forest, and the day which started out so well, takes an eerie turn for the worse.
- In his first film after a 25-year creative hiatus, Hans Jürgen Syberberg focuses on the town of Demmin, where he grew up. The history of the town, where a mass suicide took place at the end of the Second World War, killing hundreds of people, plays an important role. In his film, Syberberg documents his attempts, initiated decades ago, to re-establish Demmin's central market square as a place of community. A café was revived where people could watch films, drink coffee and sing together. Two architecture firms have even submitted concrete plans to redesign the square. Syberberg's involvement is not about restoring 'the old way', but about giving a place and a community back its lost center. By looking at Demmin, the film also touches on issues of future-oriented urban planning.
- This is a documentary about German punk rock band Feine Sahne Fischfilet and its singer Jan 'Monchi' Gorkow.
- For Berliners, the Baltic island of Usedom was once the most luxurious destination for excursions within striking distance of the city. This is where imperial Germany's grand health resorts of Bansin, Heringsdorf and Ahlbeck were built. Heinz Brinkmann, who was born in Heringsdorf, traces the eventful history of his island. He talks about the magnificent villas on Europe's longest beach promenade, about the expulsion of Jewish citizens by the Nazis and about Usedom being split into a German and a Polish half after the Second World War. During the GDR era, most of the spa architecture remained intact because of the lack of means to build something new. Since the fall of the Wall, however, investors have been trying to replace it with indistinguishable luxury residences. Brinkmann also asks people about conservation and change. We hear from the mayor infuriated by the architectural eyesores of recent years, a farmer who bought an island in the Achterwasser lagoon for his organic cattle, a Polish hotel manageress and other bridge-builders between the two countries. Brinkmann also quotes from his own 1992 Usedom film and compares the plans of his former protagonists with today's reality. A discursive tour through a fractured paradise.
- A German college student suspects his best friend may have been involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
- Despite having lived in the East German countryside for several months, teenager Lars and his dad, Henrik, are still treated as unwelcome guests. Henrik is building a "marriage barn," a proposed bed-and-breakfast for newlywed Berliners.
- The anti-psychiatric Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) was founded in Heidelberg in 1970 and attributed individual suffering to society's capitalist structures. It began as a self-organized experiment in group therapy led by doctor Wolfgang Huber with psychiatric patients, featuring Hegel readings and individual agitation, before subsequently radicalizing, which ended in criminal proceedings against its members, some of whom went underground with the Red Army Faction.
- In Gordian Maugg's historic crime story ZEPPELIN! the airship casts its long shadow over three generations of a southern German family: Why did Robert Silcher, crew member of the LZ 129 Hindenburg, die in the flames at Lakehurst on 7 May 1937? Unsuccessfully his son Jakob spent his life trying to shed light on the mysterious circumstances of the accident. His grandson Matthias remembers his father's deep sadness and a trip to Lake Constance in 1973. Matthias' investigation leads him to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen to one of Robert's former colleagues, Karl Semmle. But the old man rejects Matthias and first wants to know why he is so curious before he breaks his silence. The bizarre circumstances of Robert's death and the lives of his surviving family members thereafter does not come to light until 2004 with the help of Karl Semmle, the only witness of the time who really knows what happened and what drove Robert to sacrifice his own life to save the airship industry - a decision that would go on to haunt the lives of three generations. Filmmaker Gordian Maugg interweaves beautiful archive footage of the Hindenburg in this film, allowing a rare sight on the big screen of this exceptional airship.
- 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.
- Sascha Anderson, writer, pop and media star in the GDR. Depicts her double life as a radical dissident and a Stasi informer.
- A 22-year-old bank employee, family man, rocker, robs his bank of millions through a newly discovered security flaw.
- Im Fernseh-Programm der DDR lief von 1974 bis 1978 die Sendung "Jugendfilmklub". In dieser konnten Jugendliche über Filme diskutieren. Öfters wurden auch aktuelle persönliche und gesellschaftliche Probleme aufgeworfen und die Jugendlichen fragten sich: Werden wir es besser machen als die Generationen vor uns? 30 Jahre später trifft Olaf Kaiser die Menschen wieder mit denen er zum "Jugendfilmklub" gehörte und fragt was aus ihren Träumen und Vorstellungen geworden ist. Zum "Jugendfilmklub" gehörten zum Beispiel auch Christine und Dieter, damals waren sie ein Paar. Nach dem ihre gemeinsame Tochter geboren wurde, trennten sie sich. Christine arbeitet als Veterinärmedizinerin und Dieter ist zum treuen Kirchengänger geworden. Erst durch Olaf Kaiser erfährt er, dass er mittlerweile Großvater ist.
- The cold war ended 1989. The threat of a nuclear conflict disappeared. Or did it? Today the once new bomb-shelters are dusty, but kept operational. The German government still stores food and gasoline, diesel and crude oil. Infrastructural points of strategic interest could be detonated and stop the advance of the 'enemy'. With the fall of the iron curtain the secret files of war were opened. Fuer den Ernstfall (In case of emergency) tries to understand this madness. How prepared is the Bundesrepublik for the event of disaster?
- Was wird bleiben... (What will remain...) when mankind has disappeared? What can be found? What will it tell about us? What will remain from modern technology, art, social order, and humanity? What will remain... is an essay about the fragility of our life, our civilization and the short period of time we've walked on this planet.
- »Comrade Couture« is a journey into the world of the fashionistas and Bohemians of East Berlin in the 80s. A fantasy world within East Germany's restricted everyday life. Director Marco Wilms was himself a model at GDR's fashion institute.