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- Millionaire's son Wigald hates all women. His emotionally cold mother is to blame for this, and although she spoiled her offspring materially, she never really loved him. He finds comfort and advice from his friend and psychiatrist Volker, love from his white poodle Schopenhauer. After the death of his wealthy mother, he has to face a difficult task before he can inherit the millions. He is supposed to put his business talent to the test at the neglected gas station that once founded the financial advancement of the family. There's just one problem: the gas station was recently leased to three women.
- A mirror in a creepy old Bavarian castle has the magical ability to reveal the future of whoever looks into it while the full moon shines brightly. A series of characters looks into the glass to learn their fate, and most are unhappy with what they learn. In the end, the hero smashes the glass and then commits suicide. After he is dead, the mirror magically reassembles itself into a whole as before.
- The writer Carlo Conti, who is as talented as he is lazy, is commissioned by his friend, film producer Marcello Bandini, to write a screenplay for an erotic film. Although he hardly has any money left, this job doesn't interest him at all. However, his attractive little friend Gina understands how to get him to the point where the screenplay is finished. Carlo doesn't lack the necessary imagination, and so the result is a more than tingling journey through his very personal view of the world of eroticism.
- Milada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.
- The young director Axel Ranisch is waiting with a plastic rose in his hand for the veteran and provocative filmmaker Peter Kern, who arrives at Berlin Temepelhof from Vienna. The two has never met before. When the overweight Peter is pushed through customs in his wheelchair and Axel respectfully hands him the rose as a greeting, Peter angrily throws it on the ground and hisses at the insecure Axel that he hates artificial flowers and feels deeply offended.
- Ibrahim Hulam is a notorious girl trafficker. When he discover Anita von Schlenk, who comes from a good family and performs as a dancer in the Imperial Palace, he is in over his head. To win Anita's favor Ibrahim involves her father Eberhard in a shady affair concerning bills of exchange.
- A fervid drama forcefully illustrates the catastrophic consequences of keeping abortion illegal.
- It's night and it's raining. A car drives on a country road that squeezes through a dense forest. There's a woman behind the wheel - young, pretty and neatly dressed, but her face shows tension, something is making her nervous. Suddenly a young man appears on the side of the road and, despite her fear, she hesitantly picks up the hitchhiker. They are silent, listen to music, and a conversation slowly develops. Suddenly the traffic radio sounds - the police warn of three escaped patients from a mental institution nearby.
- The beautiful dancer Barberina lies at the foot of Europe. Frederick II, King of Prussia, too, wants to engage her in his opera house. When she refuses, he lets her take her under military surveillance to Berlin, forces her to appear, and tries so eagerly for her that a love-story seems to arise between them. However, when Friedrich goes to war with Austria, Barberina falls in love with the secretary baron of Cocceji. After a concert on the occasion of the King's return, she wants to flee abroad with Cocceji.
- The actor Holger Miesbach can no longer pursue this or any other profession, for psychological reasons and despite ongoing psychiatric treatment. While his mother offers telephone sex, during which she pretends to be a minor and always forgets to be paid, he devotes himself to painting, but above all to the joy he had in collecting autographs since he was a child. When the actress Gloria Mundi, who as a teenager celebrated success with revealing scenes but killed her mother and her lover in Hollywood in 1961, returns to Berlin, Holger's soft spot for the worn-out star increases to obsession.
- The film presents recordings made by the researcher Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, who belonged to the NSDAP and SS, as leader of an expedition to the Amazon region from 1935 to 1937.
- After a thirty-year career on international variety stages, the famous clown Grock retires, marries and buys a villa on the Mediterranean. But Grock remains a clown and is so immersed in the work on his new home that his young wife is soon reunited with her former lover. Grock reappears in a traveling circus with his old partner Max and his world-famous act and is a sensational success. Grock's career continues.
- Paul Mauthner, a painter, has syphilis. A quack who promises a cure cannot help. Paul seduces his brother's wife and infects her with syphilis. While he then flees, the young, infected woman dies of the disease. The daughter born of this liaison, also infected, is admitted to a special clinic and can be cured there.
- Vera Berg is a career woman. As a lawyer with her own law firm, she has her life under control, she does not give in to illusions or unnecessary feelings. One day, however, love throws a spanner in the works for her: the married entrepreneur Bönisch, who is notorious as Casanova, tries to win Vera over. At first she's just amused, but Bönisch's sincerely amiable manner makes Vera doubt her previous career-oriented lifestyle.
- In 1974, terrorism in the Federal Republic seemed almost defeated: the hard core of the Red Army faction was arrested and student protests subsided. But then the years 1974 to 77 became the bloodiest in the history of left-wing terror in the Federal Republic. The film explores the questions of why the events and the protest were able to escalate to such an extent and whether the escalation could have been avoided.
- In the third part syphilis is also at the center of the action. This time a landowner falls ill. He proves to be a real fiend, tyrannizes his wife and seduces the daughter of the forester he employs. When the young woman thinks she can't find a way out, she seeks suicide. Finally, the despot also dies and, post mortem, takes his son with him into the misfortune. The latter believes that he too is suffering from syphilis and is soon obsessed with this delusion.
- The second syphilis film poses the moral question: namely how far an illness should be considered a human disgrace. The protagonist of this story, a young doctor, believes that only characterless people can contract the disease through reprehensible actions. At a meeting in honor of a venereologist, a violent dispute erupts between the doctor who applies moral categories and a colleague who argues more objectively. Two events make the dogmatic young doctor think: his sister marries a syphilitic who has not yet been completely healed, and he himself falls ill as a result of a kiss from a young woman who also suffers from syphilis. But the doctor is healed and reconsiders his previous attitude.
- The Chamber singer Gerardo is in his hotel room the day after his "Tannhäuser" performance. He is preparing for his next gig in Brussels and has given the hotel staff strict orders not to let anyone into his room. Nevertheless, a young, sixteen-year-old American woman emerges from behind a window curtain and confesses her great admiration for him.
- In the early 1970s, the automaker BMW's brand was symbiotically linked to left-wing terrorism in the company's native West Germany. BMW/Brand Terror explores how BMW came to be connected to terror. BMWs became so strongly associated with terrorism that a common joke emerged among Germans: "BMW" didn't stand for "Bavarian Motor Works" but instead stood for "Baader-Meinhof Wagen" after the notorious Baader-Meinhof Gang that was waging war against the German state.
- Frau Römer's deceased husband once suffered from hemophilia and passed this defect on to his daughter Olga, who has recently become engaged to doctor Münchow, so Olga's mother feels it is her duty to inform the doctor about her daughter's rare disease. Münchow leaves Olga, who much later marry an older banker. They have three children. Allis well till one of Olga's sons has a serious accident.
- From behind the camera comes the voice of the director: "But doesn't it hurt?" In front of it, her sister with her eye steadfastly on the wax strip: "yes, but the payoff is so delightful that the pain is worth it." Let's not kid ourselves.
- In broad daylight, Kurt, Robert, Hans and Lilly celebrates and get drunk. They are boisterous and funny and in the conversation it comes out that Kurt should actually study dentistry with his uncle's money. Now the uncle approaches and pretends to be a patient with a toothache. The young drinkers quickly rearrange the apartment for the practice and even put up a sign outside. Because of the sign other patients come to the "practice" of Dr. Bluff.
- Young Aenne Wolter comes from a safe and secure world, but carelessness leads her down the wrong path when she seeks adventure in the big city. She is seduced and abducted and ends up in the quagmire of brothels and prostitution. Grete Kröning also has to share her ordeal. She also falls into the hands of unscrupulous traffickers led by Ignatz Czyslow, and she too ends up in a brothel.
- Gilbert visits his former lover Margarethe. In the dialogue, it turns out that both have dealt with the history of their past relationships in a novel each. Of course, each of the two authors has vigorously covered the tracks. However, a mistake has been made. Both authors have inserted the correspondence word for word into the respective text of the novel.
- Documentary presents both inconvenience and joy of the scout life emphasizing the second one. At the first day scouts play various games, swim and rest by the fire. After so much exciting activities they fall asleep and dream about their beloved patron - Adolf Hitler. The next they Hitlerjugend boys climb the steep mountain to claim it for Hitler and for the party.
- About the pioneering days of German TV in the 1932/1933 season. Based on a fictitious cultural program that was broadcast directly, an image of the time is created, which is supported by real, now historical newsreels and other documentary material. It features figures from the show world, politics and literature.
- The three different stories are roughly intertwined and all tell a rather sad picture of the job and unemployment market in Germany. Sabine, the protagonist of the first episode, is a cashier in a discount store, but dreams of more exciting things to do with her life. Martin, the protagonist of the second story, is a frustrated office worker. He feels like a failure in professional and family matters and flees in alcoholism. Miriam, the heroine from the last episode, has just successfully completed her studies, but unfortunately she can't find a job and has to go cleaning instead. She is pregnant by her boyfriend, who, although unemployed, does not deign to do "menly" work. Here too there is a conflict. All three stories are interrupted by a kind of music video clip in which the protagonists sing about their dreams and hopes.
- The Barlay Circus is a touring company and travels from town to town. One day a man jumps onto one of the wagons and hides there. It is Fernand, an aging juggler, who has escaped from prison. Fernand seeks refuge with his ex-wife Flora, who works at the company as a wild animal trainer.
- The good citizens of a small Austrian town are all aquiver; the schoolmaster has published a brochure in which can be read, black on white, the story of the 'dead guest,' in whose embrace the town's prospective brides found death. But worst of all, the writer of the brochure has plausibly concluded that the 'dead guest' will return this very year.
- This poetic documentary shows people and situations from both East and West Berlin. As if invisible, the camera crosses over the wall several times, fusing the experiences into something that didn't exist in the mid-eighties-outside of the cinema. 25 years after the Berlin Wall was built, perhaps the most horrifying aspect was that the Berliners took it for granted and had learned to ignore it. The wall was mirrored in everyone's head. This film questions that ingrown attitude.
- Stella Ingrid Goldschlag (1922-1994) was a German Jewess who worked as a denouncer for the Gestapo. From 1943 she tracked down hiding Jews in Berlin and handed them over to the Nazis. She was a blonde beauty trained as a fashion illustrator at an art school. Because of her aryan appearance she was never considered a Jew and did not need to identify herself. On her behalf, she combed Berlin for hiding Jews, pretended to be a helper and got the whereabouts of other people in hiding from them.
- Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was a notorious German Nazi politician and one of Hitler's most loyal aides. He made a rapid career in the SS and was one of those who planned the Holocaust. Heydrich founded the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), an intelligence service tasked with uncovering and suppressing opposition to the NSDAP through arrests, deportations and assassinations.