Siegfried Lenz

A flash of all the everyday and poetic that happens within a second in different places in our world, based on a prose ballad by Siegfried Lenz.

Tras la II Guerra Mundial, Siggi Jepsen está en una institución para educar a los jóvenes difíciles. Dentro, Siggi debería escribir un ensayo sobre "los placeres del deber", pero no tiene ni idea de cómo hacerlo. Solo cuando está encerrado en una celda acuden a él los recuerdos de su infancia: su padre, Jens Ole Jepsen, un oficial de policía, recibió el encargo de vigilar al pintor expresionista Ludwig Nansen.

El final del verano, un puerto de pescadores en el mar Báltico, y el comienzo de una gran sensación, que no debe ser: Justo antes del inicio del nuevo año escolar, el joven de 18 años Cristiano, hijo de un pescador se enamora de su nueva maestra de Inglés Stella . En un momento de ligereza y libertad inesperada, en las dunas y el paisaje del mar lejos de la pequeña localidad, Stella y Christian descubren entre sí el deseo y la atracción compartida..

Set against the backdrop of post-war Germany, the screen adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s short story released in 1949 shows a snapshot in time of Mr. Schwamm, an indulgent husband and caring father, who wants so save his depressed son. During the pivotal night of this mission, he has an odd encounter: Paired up by destiny, he confides his troubles to a bitter and insensitive stranger, who in the very last minute manages to turn the story into a touching parable for kindness and humanity.

Uli and Nora share an intimate, late love. But Uli always avoids the decision to stand on the common relationship. One morning Uli suffers a stroke during a tour of the harbor on the Elbe. He fights his way through the city to the reading room of the library where Nora works. At the last minute, an ambulance takes Uli to the hospital. In this situation, Nora is overwhelmed. When, on the initiative of her friend Eva, she fetches a few things for Uli from his apartment, a cell phone rings. At the other end there is an unknown female voice that sounds strangely familiar ...

A corpse is washed up on the beach of the North Sea. The deceased is Alexander, husband of the beautiful Bettina. They have been coming to the island for a long time and possess a cottage there. At first no one doubts that Alexander died of an accident, but the young policewoman Maike, who has known the family since her childhood, thinks that Alexander should have been familiar with the mudflat. Did he kill himself?

The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.

Durante su período de vigilancia, la tripulación de un buque-faro rescata a tres hombres que navegan a la deriva en una motora averiada. Son tres extraños personajes: un asesino paranoico, acompañado por dos serviles hermanos. En el interior del buque empieza a correrse el temor de que el trío que acaban de rescatar huyen de la justicia. A partir de ese momento, la tensión y el terror hacen su aparación.

Three men plot to assassinate the dictator of their country, but their plan fails and one of them is captured and imprisoned. Even after considerable torture and interrogation, the revolutionary maintains his silence as to the names of his accomplices. Soon he is killed, though no one seems to know who is responsible for his death. Four years later another regime has been established, and a former inmate of the dead revolutionary finds himself in a position of power. He now intends to find out who was responsible for the man's death. After this German tale first took the form of a radio play and then a stage production, character actor Peter Carsten decided to produce this film version.