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- Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück, they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother, and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
- In the late 1950s and early 60s, over 10,000 children were born with defects due to the use of Thalidomide. Niko von Glasow was one of them, and in NOBODY'S PERFECT he tracks down 11 others who suffered the same side-effects.
- A car drives through Poland. The scenery gradually changes: a town, high-rise flats and farmhouses. The car stops in a village. A female photographer from Western Europe gets out and avidly takes pictures of her surroundings. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding.
- Look At Me "I don't usually see myself as disabled, but the reality is different!" As part of the "Menschen Hautnah" ("People in close-up") TV series, Niko von Glasow cheerfully confronts his disability, caused by the drug thalidomide. He recruits eleven fellow thalidomiders for the courageous project of being photographed naked for a calendar. In this way they meet head-on the public gaze to which they are constantly subjected: Look at us! In conversations with his parents, his brother and his schoolteacher, Niko awakens moving memories from his childhood and youth. At home on the sofa, his son points out "how funny he'd look with long arms". On a spiritual journey to the Himalayas, Niko meets a Tibetan lama who discusses his disability from a Buddhist perspective. Huge prints of the twelve naked photographs are displayed in front of Cologne Cathedral. Niko von Glasow and the other models are intrigued to see how the public will react. A film by and with Niko von Glasow as director, father, nude model and man with short arms.