Peter Faerber

En la Navidad de 1877, Isabel de Austria (Sissi), celebra su 40º cumpleaños. Primera dama de Austria, mujer del emperador Francisco José I, no tiene derecho a expresarse y debe mantenerse hermosa y joven para siempre en su papel de emperatriz. Para satisfacer estas expectativas, adopta un estricto régimen de ayuno, ejercicios, peluquería y medición diaria de su cintura. Asfixiada por dichas convenciones, y con un apetito voraz de saber y de vida, Isabel se rebela cada vez más contra esta imagen.

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.

Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Contrary to the war propaganda and the decreed heroism, the 16-year-old boys dream of Swing music, sex and freedom - and of Lore, the air force helper from the air base, who attracts all eyes in her red swimsuit. At the same time, uncle, Knuffke, Bubu, tongue kiss and Hosenmacher suspect that they will not escape the horror of the front. "Stay tuned," Lore calls after them. But tongue kiss gets it first and also pants maker will not survive the war.

After the death of genius Richard Wagner his wife Cosima fights for his legacy even against the will of her children Sigmund and Sieglinde.

A newborn's destiny hangs in the balance, as grownups come to terms with what they cannot have.

It is the world's most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzzling - and written in a language that even the best cryptographers have been unable to decode.

Durante el verano de 1936, dos militares bávaros, Toni Kurz y Andi Hinterstoisser, deciden lanzarse a la conquista de la cara norte del Eiger, en la más pura tradición del alpinismo alemán. Conocida por ser una de las escaladas más difíciles de la cordillera de los Alpes, esta legendaria ascensión en condiciones climatológicas adversas será narrada por varios periodistas entre los cuales se encuentra la novia de Toni, que trabaja para una publicación alemana. Por si fuera poco, Goebbels no dudará en transformar a ambos alpinistas en héroes del Tercer Reich, a pesar de que ninguno de ellos era miembro del partido nacionalsocialista.

Los Weidemann tienen una fábrica de perfumes pero el negocio va mal y confían ciegamente en Marie, una joven con un don para las fragancias, para lanzar una nueva esencia que salve la empresa. Pero Marie se enamora de Bernard, el heredero de la familia que posee el banco que deniega continuamente los créditos a los Weidemann.

After a succesful burglary two thieves make a stupid mistake and take refuge in a hot dog cart. Soon people are coming to buy from them.

Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has tasted the kind of luxury she can normally only dream about. A minor squabble at home brings the situation to a head and marks a turning point in her life: Trixi fixes her husband a lethal cocktail of pills.

Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.

Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.

Kain, a young rock musician, is on his way from an "insider tip" to an acknowledged newcomer. Even though he often has to work at night, he leads a more or less settled life until he meets Nina. Nina, who is blind from birth, works as a switchboard operator at the post office. Her life as well is settled, and more so than for Kain the order in her life is a system of security for her. They fall in love and as time passes Nina gets much more involved in Kain's life as a musician than she wanted to.

Sternberg lands with his parachute in the bed of a stewardess, in the car of an airport employee and finally on a freeway service area. There he meets Harry. Harry is blind and he joins Sternberg who is looking for his Hedi. Together they land in the flat of the model married couple, Alf and Evy. With his appearance he upsets the day-to-day life of the couple.