Haymo Henry Heyder

Federico and German were best friends, fighting the dictatorship and looking for freedom together. Years later Federico and his wife are movie producers looking for funding. German, on his part, is living away from the city and spend his days painting and mourning his late wife

Surprised by an unexpected witness, robbers murder a woman who curses them. Little do they know of her connection with a treacherous sect indeed. Their chosen location to hide the loot turns out to be an adventure lodge where the owners are offered a talisman that supposedly grants wishes. Naively, they wish for a sum of money. Next day their beloved son unexpectedly dies. The exact sum they wished for is offered in accident insurance. Coincidence, or fate? The event lures the couple into a downward spiral. Meanwhile, the robbers are drawn to members of the sect who succeed in seducing and hideously murdering two of them, but one escapes. The owner comes upon the loot. It is again the exact same amount that he has rejected from the insurance company. Now convinced of the power of this amulet and incapable of escaping the consequences of their wish, the mother, gone mad, forces her husband to make a final wish: to bring their son back to life.

Cuando Bruno Stroszek sale de prisión, le advierten que debe dejar de beber. Con pocas habilidades y menos expectativas, sobrevive como músico callejero. Precisamente en la calle conoce a Eva, una prostituta, con la que entabla amistad. Después de ser golpeados por el chulo de ella, deciden unirse a Scheitz, un excéntrico vecino de Bruno, que ha decidido emigrar a Wisconsin, en los Estados Unidos.

Un pequeño pueblo de Baviera es famoso por su "Cristal de rubí" con el que elaboran diversos objetos. Cuando el maestro artesano muere de repente, sin haber revelado el secreto del cristal a su aprendiz, la ciudad cae en una profunda depresión y el propietario de la fábrica de cristales se obsesiona con el secreto perdido.

Alemania, principios del siglo XIX. Kaspar es un enigmático muchacho que ha pasado toda la vida encerrado y aislado en una cueva: no conoce, pues, el lenguaje ni tiene capacidad para relacionarse con los demás. Cuando, en 1828, alguien lo abandona en Nuremberg con una carta para las autoridades locales, se convierte primero en una especie de atracción de feria y después en una curiosidad científica y social.

A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy: he shoots the father.