Margit Bendokat

Otoño de 1938. Europa se encuentra al borde de la guerra. Mientras Hilter se prepara para invadir Checoslovaquia, el primer ministro británico Neville Chamberlain (Jeremy Irons) busca desesperadamente una solución pacífica. El joven funcionario británico Hugh Legat (George McKay) viaja a Munich para una conferencia de emergencia, adonde también se dirige el diplomático alemán Paul von Hartmann (Jannis Niehwöhner). Paul es un ex compañero de clase de Hugh de su época en Oxford. Mientras ambos ven si se puede evitar la guerra, y a qué coste, los dos amigos se encuentran en el centro de un complot político, en el que quizá sus propias vidas estén en peligro.

Una actriz en decadencia da clases de interpretación a un pastor de la iglesia sin talento que tiene problemas con la predicación.

A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

Again, the unemployed zookeeper Günther and the discarded salesman Wolfgang are looking for their great luck. Therefore, they get the help of a young man who, due to his autism, has extraordinary skills at the roulette table.

The unemployed salesman Wolfgang practices optimism, his friend Günther realism: The situation is shitty! But then zookeeper Günther finds a few hundred thousand Euros from his demented neighbor. The mates take the money but also the care for the old man.

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.

In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.

Dos jóvenes mujeres sentadas en una cafetería un día de verano. Situaciones que se encuentran todos los días unas mil veces. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando intentas describir esa normalidad?

En el Berlín de la II Guerra Mundial, Lilly, esposa de un oficial nazi, ama de casa y madre de cuatro hijos, lleva una vida convencional. Felice es judía y trabaja para un periódico nazi bajo un nombre falso, además de suministrar información a la resistencia. Cuando se conocen inician una historia de amor apasionada. Se escriben a diario cartas y poemas con los nombres ficticios de Aimèe y Jaguar. Cuando Lilly llega a saber que Felice es judía, rompe con su vida y emprende una serie de acciones: se divorcia de su marido nazi y hace que Felice se traslade a su apartamento. Pero, un día, las SS están esperándolas en el apartamento de Lilly...

A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister. Nobody knows quite what to do. A stylish variation on the problems of triolism made with striking stability of style and a great feeling for mise-en-scène.

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.

Actor Ernst Stein, having abdicated from the stage in 1968 in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, has long since retreated from the world around him. In a remote house encircled by an overgrown garden, he lives in a world of dreams and memories. Suddenly, in 1989, an out-of-kilter society sends forth its progeny. Young people, tramps and characters of all sorts take refuge with Stein for a short span, carrying the turmoil of the times into his house.

A family movie directed by Renata Kaye.

The life of Alexander von Humboldt up to his attempt to climb the Chimborazo in 1802.

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.

Atkins deja la ciudad para regresar al valle donde antes vivía. Allí se encuentra con nativos americanos que aprenden a confiar en él. Le piden a Atkins que compre armas para ellos. En su viaje, Atkins conoce a Morris, cuyo interés en los recursos minerales pone a prueba la lealtad de Atkins hacia los nativos americanos.

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow, who cannot cope with the new technology, has to work on a secondary local line. Georg, his son, a railway worker as well, is to attend a training course, but Georg refuses to go. Then his father comes to a surprising and highly unusual decision. He pretends to be Georg Platow, making himself twenty years younger than he really is and registers for the course.

The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages. One of his soldiers protest this and is thrown into jail, but he swears to someday return and take all the wealth of the king.